Hello there. Welcome back to Conflicted. I'm Thomas Small and my friend and co-host

Aimand Dean is here with me as well. Hello Amun. Hello Thomas. How are you? Have you

contracted coronavirus yet?

Not yet.

I believe we're all going to die of it soon.

No.

Well, in-shala, as you say.

So far in season two, we have been dissecting America's ambition

following the end of the Cold War to establish a new world order of global

capitalism, liberal democracy, all protected by America's military might.

Last time we talked about Russia and about America's ambition to establish a new profitable partnership with their old enemy,

and about how thanks to Vladimir Putin that didn't quite work out.

So we've done the Middle East and we've done Russia and today we're

focusing on the third object of America's attention as it strove to build a

new world order and of course I'm talking about China. For the new world order to succeed, China

would have to be fully integrated into the global economy, which would result or so America believed in China's leadership enthusiastically

embracing liberal democracy.

Let's discuss how successful that plan was.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there are only a dozen years left for global

warming to be kept to a maximum of one and a half degree.

When the banks, we're seeing the end of capitalism,

the end of capitalism as we know it.

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