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    Posted: 19-Mar-2008 at 18:31

     The United States entering the 21st Century is losing its hegemony in World Affairs. This has been due to a wide range of factors including costly military conflicts overseas, In addition to disintegrating domestic infrastructure. Both of these have compounded to create serious issues with the US economy which has become embroiled in a crisis as of recently. In addition US power on the world stage as a whole has been challenged due to the rise of other powers namely China and India. This is all occurring while much of the population of the United States of America feels the effects but seems overall unknowing of the true cost of whats happening to the nation in terms of geopolitical affairs.

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Ok in what order should I talk about the subjects in this thesis?   
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I think you should also give a lot of focus to how America has steadily lost its economic advantage to overseas production centres, going increasingly from a producer to a consumer. Her failure to reinvent herself economically in the face of increasingly dynamic foreign competitors is something that must be addressed.

What do you think considering the above point?
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Originally posted by Constantine XI

I think you should also give a lot of focus to how America has steadily lost its economic advantage to overseas production centres, going increasingly from a producer to a consumer. Her failure to reinvent herself economically in the face of increasingly dynamic foreign competitors is something that must be addressed.

What do you think considering the above point?


Could you give me an example of how you would state it?
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Not without writing several paragraphs. Think of the US manufacturing sector, it has gone into substantial decline as companies maximise profits by going overseas to take advantage of cheap labour. This creates a gap in the balance of trade, the US goes from hosting production to simply importing it. What needs to happen is for the US to find something else it can specialise in, somewhere that it holds a competitive advantage as a centre for production, and to then exploit that in order to make up for the economic shortfall caused by the decline of previously successful industries.
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Problem is this is a socialist dialogue. It presumes American corperations are doing something wrong by closing US factories and opening up in China where they can get 12 hours a day, 6 days a week labour for a dollar a day, ruining the US economy and creating misery in the US. However this IS the capitalist system. They are doing right by making China the most powerful country because it's getting them rich quick.
 
However no need for Pikeshot to worry. The Roman empire lasted 1000 years, the Spanish and British 200, the US 40 years, China will last a decade at most before it's surpassed............ Americans shouldn't get their knickers ina twist over China.
 
 
 


Edited by Paul - 20-Mar-2008 at 01:51
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Ok what should I talk about first?
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Originally posted by Paul

Problem is this is a socialist dialogue. It presumes American corperations are doing something wrong by closing US factories and opening up in China where they can get 12 hours a day, 6 days a week labour for a dollar a day, ruining the US economy and creating misery in the US. However this IS the capitalist system. They are doing right by making China the most powerful country because it's getting them rich quick.
 
 


American corporations are on the one hand doing what they must to operate most efficiently. What I am saying is wrong is that the US government is not creating enough projects with public funding to give the American economy a new source of competitive advantage.
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Originally posted by Paul

Problem is this is a socialist dialogue. It presumes American corperations are doing something wrong by closing US factories and opening up in China where they can get 12 hours a day, 6 days a week labour for a dollar a day, ruining the US economy and creating misery in the US. However this IS the capitalist system. They are doing right by making China the most powerful country because it's getting them rich quick.
 
However no need for Pikeshot to worry. The Roman empire lasted 1000 years, the Spanish and British 200, the US 40 years, China will last a decade at most before it's surpassed............ Americans shouldn't get their knickers ina twist over China.
 
 
 
 
Now Paul I resemble that remark.  Smile
 
Any of us getting our knickers in twists is pointless anyway.  The entire white, Western world started to take itself out of the equation in the 20th century when it killed off 60 or 70,000,000 of its own population and its overall birthrate went in the tank.
 
Whether in Europe or indeed North America, we are just waiting a couple hundred years for the end, but we will all be long dead by then.
 
Another topic of course, but Kevin might work that thought into his thesis on the decline of the USA.
 
 


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What follows a population boom is a period of stagnation. It is normal and universal.
 
 
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Originally posted by Kevin

     The United States entering the 21st Century is losing its hegemony in World Affairs. This has been due to a wide range of factors including costly military conflicts overseas, In addition to disintegrating domestic infrastructure. Both of these have compounded to create serious issues with the US economy which has become embroiled in a crisis as of recently. In addition US power on the world stage as a whole has been challenged due to the rise of other powers namely China and India. This is all occurring while much of the population of the United States of America feels the effects but seems overall unknowing of the true cost of whats happening to the nation in terms of geopolitical affairs.

 How does my thesis look?

Ok in what order should I talk about the subjects in this thesis?   
 
I think you are lamenting a time that never existed, US has always had economic problems and never had complete hegemony. Personally I don't think US power has dimished at all.  US has a sphere of influence and influence of varying degrees within this sphere. US power in these spheres seems to me to be the same as ever, the strategy it is using is different (funnily enough, Bush's policy is considerably less vile than Haig) but less effective. I think the US domestic crisis is a little bit of an exageration by overactive media commentators. It's a recession and every country has them every few years. I don't think India is a major player and won't be in our lifetime.
 
The US does have some problems though. Internationally the fact the dollars is falling but the Euro, Pound and Yen holding up. This severely damages US buying power of diminishing oil resources. It has the problem at home of the loonatics taking over the asylum, that Sky News even exists, seems to be a majority opinion or hasn't been clamped down by the government is unbelievable.
 
 


Edited by Paul - 20-Mar-2008 at 21:49
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