[quinndupont]

This short article offers wild opinions with no understanding of history or any meaningful analysis. The authors also clearly have an ideological axe to grind (I mean, come on… the CATO Institute?)

If there were any facts presented I’d say they lie, but since they’re just talking about a made up fairy tale, it’s only a silly piece of fiction. I feel stupid leaving a comment warning others.

[ClumsyPilot]

Indeed, to write an article with "rise of transnational corporations" without a mention of East India company takes the cake for historically illiterate corporate propaganda.

[Animats]

Yes. It's also very US-centric.

China has four times the population of the US, a comparable GDP, and isn't finished industrializing yet. If anything, digital technologies have strengthened the nation-state in China. China used to be too big for detailed central government control. "The mountains are high and the emperor is far away." Today, high speed rail and networks cut through the mountains, and Beijing definitely is monitoring what's going on in the outer provinces.

Fifty years out, the US may be a comfortable but lagging backwater like the UK, living on memories of empire.