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What is this American led, 'Global Order'?

World War II dramatically changed the then existing world order.  Based on three fundamental pillars of democracy, free trade and capitalism, America the only great power that survived the war with its economy and market intact became the de facto world leader of the non communist world. American leadership established this new world order at The Bretton Woods Conference, 1944 . This 'order' based on a number or global institutions ensured under the Marshall plan the rebuilding of the world economy.  American farsightedness and actions produced the greatest material prosperity in history. World GDP has grown 10 fold, population has increased 3 fold, Colonialism ended, and there has been a dramatic reduction in world poverty, with a corresponding improvement in health has been observed. Communism was mostly defeated. America, currently the sole superpower,  dominates the  world financially, technologically, socially, politically and militaril...

Taming the Dragon.

From its very origins the  Communist party of China  (CCP) has always  proudly claimed its an expansionist entity. It occupied Tibet in 1950 and seized 38,000 sq. kms of India in 1962. The CCP invaded Vietnam in 1979 and has constantly been constantly been snatching territory from all its neighbours all the time. However the CCP 's rule of China has mostly been a humanitarian, civilisational, social, cultural, and economical disaster, causing more than 80 million deaths.   As per the World Bank, in 1960, China was poorer than most African countries. Only after America opened her arms, wallet, technology and markets to embrace China in 1979 during the visionary leadership of Deng Xiaoping of the PRC (1978 -1989) did China begin to turn the corner.  China's economic rise began when it abandoned much of 'Economic Communism', adopting free market economics  to unleash the power of its human capital. (The PRC remains a total...