Wolff Responds: Why a Cold War Against China?

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Wolff Responds: Why a Cold War Against China?
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In this video, Prof. Wolff provides the reasons for the recent attacks and demonization of China by the US. He argues that China is being reexamined and repositioned in American consciousness to accommodate the fundamental economic and military needs that this troubled US capitalism, crippled by the recent crash and the pandemic, now faces.

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StanleyMoonwah Tang
StanleyMoonwah Tang
1 week ago
I love Richard Wolff he always talking about right thing

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David B
David B
1 week ago
We are entering the worst depression in American history and to take your mind off the bankers who stole all the wealth, they are going to start a war. Same old blueprint.

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Alex Anderson
Alex Anderson
1 week ago
China is the only major competitor to American Capitalism, so of course this makes the parasite class in the US nervous.

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iliana hernandez
iliana hernandez
1 week ago
We can not stand competition
We want others to be subservient

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Michael Garcia
Michael Garcia
1 week ago (edited)
a well described process of what is.. Capitalism.. chasing the buck always.. and those corporations, having given their technology to China now whine and complain about theft.. as if they didn't steal it from someone else.. NOBODY forced corporations to go to China.. they went willingly..

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goffredo caraglia
goffredo caraglia
1 week ago (edited)
1)America wants to go to war because they don't accept another country getting near to their power
2)Trump wants to warmonger cause he thinks that will boost his votes at the ballots
3)Us ruling class thinks that a clash with China will distract people from Covid crisis

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sikaawe-Nassir Omar
sikaawe-Nassir Omar
1 week ago
Great and intelligent man, Richard wolff

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ashley mistletoe
ashley mistletoe
1 week ago
Dr Wolffe's last point on military complex being core of American economic is particularly sounding. C1A, hence USA, is literally always in search of wars, which makes USA the enemy of the world.

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Kevin Ford
Kevin Ford
1 week ago
They should air this on main TV channels.... No hope of that. Can you imagine what would happen if the hard truth was clear for everyone to see.
Lesson 1. Never believe anything that your Government tells you.

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Paulo Roberto
Paulo Roberto
1 week ago
Such a intelligent man! It's always a learning experience. Thank you Prof Wolf.

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Political LiL
Political LiL
1 week ago (edited)
Britains was the Empire of the 19th century. The US was the dominant Empire of the 20th century and China will be the Empire of the 21st Century no matter what the US does, greed sends every empire to the ash heap of history. Greedy elites wanted outrageous profits you got them at the expense of the citizenry now they are broke and pissed only fight you gonna get is the one right here.

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eylon1967
eylon1967
1 week ago
china already won. the us has money, and nothing else. look at it's infrastructure. where are it's factories? education? health services? if there is war,  the usa will lose.

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david gregory
david gregory
1 week ago
USA is going down the tubes

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Rodolfo
Rodolfo
1 week ago
Because china's "communism" beat American capitalism 🤠

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chinh au
chinh au
2 days ago
American war economy needs a credible enemy:
CHINA
To substitute: Hitler_ Japan_ terrorism....
USA live by war

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MutiAMG
MutiAMG
1 week ago
The government can't stop the dollar from falling....i'm foreseeing another war, they're already provocing Iran and China, it's like they're teasing them to make the first shot. Iran, China and Russia just have to wait this out and don't give them a reason for another war. The world wont be behind the US this time like after 9/11, they know better by now. And i'm hoping for alot of troops to deny fighting wall streets war!

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Darius Chong
Darius Chong
1 week ago (edited)
When people talk about the CCP, very often the 'C word' that they focus on is 'Communist' when the real focus should be on 'Chinese'. It is more about the Chinese values (Confucianism) rather than Communist values. When Deng Xiaoping opened up China in the 1980s, many Westerners are expecting the Chinese economy and political system to 'evolve' into one which Western minds are familiar with, and to their dismay it didn't happened. The Chinese hold strong to their own values. I'm guessing the average Westerner (Americans especially) find it inconceivable to see a non Anglo Saxon superpower who holds a different set of values, ideolody and system of governance. But I can assure you that Western values and Eastern values (or any system of values) does not have to come at odd against one another. We live in a multipolar world where differences can coexist just like yin and yang.

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J L
J L
1 week ago (edited)
July 22, 2020.  24 Democratic Senators voted against moving 10% of the military budget to education and health care.  All GOP voted against. Final vote was 23 Yes : 77 No.
It's clear where the priorities of the Ruling Class lie.
Perpetual War is Corporate Welfare. It's sick blood money. Remember the bloated military budget and trillions in handouts to Corporations the next time you hear them debate whether they should help the Working Class.

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Political LiL
Political LiL
1 week ago (edited)
The Wallstreet elite got their money all up in the China economy now they the bad guys...please US looking raggedy out here trying to play the US citizenry. Our politicians are Lawyers always coming up with some legalized theft scheme. CHINA politicians are engineers they running round the globe building up nations, putting people to work and building infrastructure and  economies to create trading partners. We want to tare down and dominate nations and steal their resources. Our form of capitalism is so yesterday...its just played out people wanna make hard cold cash...

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Randy Best
Randy Best
1 week ago
The US is following in the footsteps of Rome. The US is in terminal decline and may indeed be Babylon.

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VeryStableGenius
VeryStableGenius
1 week ago
Yes and Rome created our modern civilization, well the European side of it at least.



Tom Bergere
Tom Bergere
1 week ago
Isn`t Babylon Iraq now?

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Randy Best
Randy Best
1 week ago
@Tom Bergere Yes, I believe you are correct.



Tom Bergere
Tom Bergere
1 week ago
@Randy Best Then how can the U.S. be Iraq?



Randy Best
Randy Best
1 week ago
@Tom Bergere If you don't read the Bible you will not understand.



Tom Bergere
Tom Bergere
1 week ago (edited)
@Randy Best Nonsense. I read that myth. If that myth is true, you worship the devil and you will probably be tortured forever after you die. Not a good plan, man. We are definitely following in the footsteps of Rome, Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia, but the Buybull is bs.

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Randy Best
Randy Best
1 week ago
@Tom Bergere Thanks Buddy, I will go my own way with Jesus-he is the only way.. Have a good life.



Tom Bergere
Tom Bergere
1 week ago
@Randy Best Behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall. 1 Kings 14:10

Behold, this evil is of the Lord. 2 Kings 6:33

Behold, I frame evil against you. Jeremiah 18:11

"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." Isaiah 45:7

What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? Job 2:10

Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? Lamentations 3:38

Shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? Amos 3:6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFn02oytc6U&list=PLauKI5zStvVioCvZOutAMOAWkcTMrWvDm



Randy Best
Randy Best
1 week ago
@Tom Bergere Very good!



Bradley Henderson
Bradley Henderson
1 week ago
Rome never fell.