Two suspects were apprehended yesterday after a school shooting not far from Columbine High School left one student dead and eight others injured. The STEM School Highlands Ranch now joins the long list of such tragedies.
While Americans were grieving yet another school shooting, stocks fell significantly on fears of a trade war with China. The market plunged Monday morning on news that the US would escalate tariffs against Chinese imports. Then it rebounded on hopes that trade talks would eventually succeed amid news that a Chinese delegation is coming to Washington this week. Then it fell again yesterday.
My purpose today is not to masquerade as an economist in explaining the function and results of tariffs or the larger financial issues at stake. Rather, it is to discuss with you an underlying factor in the US–China relationship that is crucial for our souls and God’s global kingdom.
The world’s only superpower?
Michael Pillsbury has served in eight presidential administrations and is currently director of the Center for Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute. His latest book is both fascinating and frightening: The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower.
According to Pillsbury, China’s President Xi Jinping dreams of “a resurgent China that would reclaim its rightful place atop the global hierarchy. This has been a Communist Party ambition since Mao took power in 1949, the date commonly understood by China’s leaders as the beginning of the Hundred-Year Marathon.”
China’s goal is “to compete with and surpass the United States as the world’s leading economic power.” If current trends persist, “by 2050, China’s economy will be much larger than America’s—perhaps three times larger, according to some projections.”
Why does this matter?
In this new world, “China will be able to outspend America militarily. It will be able to exert…
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