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China: "America reminds me of the Russian Admiralty in 1905, before the Tsushima disaster"

2020-12-11T08:22:10.380Z


BIG INTERVIEW - Asian Times columnist David Goldman says America urgently needs to embark on a major national agenda at the behest of the Pentagon, and build a tech alliance with its allies, if it doesn't want to be quickly overwhelmed by a ...


An

Asian Times columnist

and author of a hard-hitting book on the Chinese technological challenge, this expert on China believes that the United States is approaching dangerously close to a strategic disaster as shattering as the one suffered by Tsarist Russia in Tsushima, for underestimating the power of the Japanese fleet.

For him, America has totally underestimated the scale of the challenge.

It must urgently engage in a major national program at the instigation of the Pentagon, and build a technological alliance with its allies, if it does not want to be quickly overtaken by a China which aspires to become the dominant power of the 4th industrial Revolution.

All is not lost, but "

a collective leap of magnitude

Of Kennedy's Space Revolution or Reagan's Star Wars will be necessary.

LE FIGARO.

- You mentioned a

"Tsushima moment"

for America, comparing American powerlessness in the face of continued economic and technological advances

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Source: lefigaro

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