The Decline of Russia and China

By George Friedman, Ph.D., Founder and Chairman, Geopolitical Futures.

[charttrakarn]

His knowledge about China is more than 20 years old.

[albertlee]

Your are so correct SIR
make me want to cry
Your understanding is based on LAW, Thanks GOD bless.

[clydedeloach]

Please tell Dr Friedman thanks for his presentation and the calm of his logical approach to this current world concern.

[HistMirror]

George Friedman is the author of "The Coming War With Japan" in 1991, not 1931. His description of China makes me feel that his main data source about China is US main stream media and his knowledge about China's history is pretty rudimentary. I encourage people to seek Ambassador Chas Freeman's lectures on Youtube

[peterwan]

I understand how George Friedman uses rational thinking in predicting how the adversaries would act in the near future. However, rational thinking is not used by many adversaries in history. That is why we have Pearl Harbor attack and the Barbarossa invasion. If you looked back at the beginning of the Pacific war, Japan had no chance in winning a war with the US. It lacked the supplies to war. Its army was tie down in China. Its military productivity was not even half of that of the US. Geographically Japan is an island and that means US can bomb her and she got nowhere to hide. At the same time, US is an ocean away and Japan could not invade the US with significant force. In spite of all these, Pearl Harbor happened. Therefore, how do you explain that? Often, when a ruler has no way out of the domestic problems, war is a good way out since war could unite the whole country for a single purpose. Whether war could solve domestic problems is of no concern to anyone.

[centralnewsagencyoftheunit]

I like you very much and respect what you have to say. You asked a question: if anybody cares about Taiwan? Yes, my friend. I do

[carlahartley]

It is always worthwhile to listen to George Friedman.

[davidshettlesworth]

Thank you for this excellent video. I learned a great deal.

[richardsimms]

Whether people agree with the speaker Dr Friedman or not, he sure is interesting.

[MetaGuideMedia]

All accurate information. However the negatives are omitted. This isn't some easy win. To believe it is an easy win is foolish.

Our enemies are real threats.

[MrEric]

The overwhelming superiority in weapons manufacturing was the critical factor in determining the success of the US in WW2. The same might happen the other way around in the event of war between China and the US. This is the overlooked aspect that no one seems to be talking about and a key reason this war should never happen.

[JamesPeach]

People like this guy drive war and conflict but never will be on the front lines.

[EdwardRLyons]

I don't always agree with Friedman, but he hit the nail on the head in this talk. In geostrategic terms, Russia and China are facing enormous challenges. The preponderance of Western angst about their "alliance" is overblown, at the least.

[mikechadwick]

Thank you for the clarification. I truly like to hope and think that we are the good guys.

[joshborja]

I think there is a blind spot in his argument. Drive into any US city you see great poverty also.

[constantz]

“It’s hard to imagine where do they collaborate”
- Russia and China literally have a land border.
It’s also not only about Russia and China anymore either. Look at Saudi Arabia for example. Or India. Or even Turkey. There is a lot more competition to US then this guy thinks and most of them don’t want USD being a go to currency for global trade. Cuz noone wants inflation in their countries after US decides to print more money. Or their assets vanished if US doesn’t like what they do

[yusted]

At the same time, china and russia have spoken support for each others endeavor and a bew pipepline between russia and china is helping russia negate the effects of the sanctions

[patrickgoncalves]

If Russia and China are enemies and unable to cooperate, then why is China financially supporting Russia currently. If Russia and China are unable to cooperate then what happened in the Korean War? Millions of Chinese fought on the side of North Korea using Russian weapons and Russian pilots flew Migs for North Korea fighting together to kill Americans in Korean war. The same thing happened in the Vietnam war, the Chinese and Russians cooperated to kill Americans in Vietnam.

[darrenmonsiegneur]

If China and Russia don’t like each other as much as he says, their alliance says so much about how they both feel towards the US- and it doesn’t end with them.
“I never liked the Brits too much but hey, they’re ours” 🤦🏼‍♂️
This little desk soldier is everything that is wrong with America. He has as little care for the average American as he does for a Russian or Chinese.

[charttrakarn]

He may make a lot of you feel good but the reality is different today.