One of the more infuriating articles of recent days. These two autocrats, with all their critics silenced, most in jail, dare to speak of a multipolar world and more "justice" for people?! Truly stunning. The WTO made a grievous mistake in allowing China to grow its vast wealth without conditions--and at our expense. Why we maintain so much manufacturing in China even now is a mystery to me. Mr Putin's grandiose visions of infrastructure might begin with modern plumbing for his people outside Moscow. Let us hope and pray the new world order these tyrants and opportunists dream of will never come to pass.

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Please remember that the entire GDP of Russia is a small fraction of California's. They are in no position to declare a new world order. At best they can hope to be a vassal state of China.

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If the USA could just get off the over-consumption kick we seem to be on and get off the crack pipe of cheap consumer products, and move our means of production to other places including the U.S. China may not be so bold. We've handed it to them all in the name of cheap labor and profit for the big corps...which actually isn't so cheap anymore anyway. Make them feel it. Get off of Tik-Tok too.

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The key point in this article is that China is lending money to developing nations like a loan shark who will eventually take every penny you have.

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Two drowning men, clinging to one another.

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Not one of these “leaders” was democratically elected in free and fair elections.

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BBC Reports that MI-5 is warning of massive espionage by China to steal information especially regarding innovation. The Cold War is not over .... it just got really chilly.

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Grandiose Chinese plans for reshaping the world order are so much pie in the sky. When your next world order is founded on Russia, North Korea, Iran and a handful of impoverished African states who can not even afford to repay the development loans given them by China under the Belt and Road program, I am not holding my breath that this plan has legs. We have heard for so many years how China will dominate this century. But demographics and a property bust suggest that day will never come.

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One has to wonder if China, Russia and the United States remember the British Empire, the Mongols, the Romans, the Ottomans and a whole host of other empires across the globe.

Last time I checked China's population has peaked, is aging rapidly and if we think the US debt burden is high....the total debt from China is tremendous. Russia is even worse. Their best and brightest are leaving in droves and Ukraine has demonstrated that Russia, while still a huge military might, probably couldn't mount a multi-front effort anymore.

The US might still be the leader in innovation - but given the disdain that about 50% of the population has for technical progress and education, which we can see in declining life expectancies and the highest rate of infant mortality in the western world, one wonders if all of these nations are fooling themselves