US Power Illusion: Why Asia's Rise Changed Everything #shorts

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[00:00:00]Now, one could add a few points that even in the heyday of US power, the US could not defeat Vietnam. Uh the US could not overcome uh the anti-colonial wars and anti-colonial uh sentiments. The US could not keep uh European empires intact or replace them with American empires in much of Asia.

[00:00:29]uh though the US influence uh in post-war Japan and Korea was nearly total uh we we can say but all of this means that from my point of view the unipolar moment after 1991 was an illusion to an important extent if you were looking at this as an economist as I was during that period I was rather routinely saying that Asia is rising and that this is creating a different kind of