global empire or imperialism?

On top of that, he is repositioning American forces away from the Middle East to the Asia Pacific to deter China’s increasing imperial assertiveness.  . Obama’s Pivot to Asia has exacerbated regional conflicts in the Asia Pacific region as smaller powers like Japan and the Philippines..

world economy: the return of crisis

The resulting Chinese expansion, along with other emerging markets, accounted for half of world economic growth in 2014 as the economies of the United States, Europe, and Japan remained stagnant.44 But it wasn’t just government stimulus spending and credit expansion in China that fueled..

crisis and class struggle in china

China’s construction gains have thus had the strongest impact on commodity-producing economies, which provide raw materials, but have had little impact on the advanced economies of Europe, Japan, and the U.S., whose major exports to China are in capital goods.6 . ..

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