The Chinese threat is also functional for global capitalism as a way to try to escape a crisis of capital accumulation. My only worry is that this planet doesn't care about the China-US conflict, and we are the acceleration of extreme climate events. What I think is a crisis of elite thinking. We really don't have the kind of political elites and the institutional space to imagine very radical alternatives"
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