Once a mighty force shaping our world, globalization now faces its icy winter. Ancient wisdom and the I Ching unveil its 60-year cycle - hinting at collapse, chaos, and a rebirth beyond 2040.
Giving the lifespan of the Earth as around 600 million years has a very distant relation with the content of the link provided about the age of the earth. Isn't this a typo?
You are better off using the I Ching to show yourself where you are right now so that you might enable yourself to be in a higher state of consciousness, or Enlightenment. Then you will be uplifting the future to a higher level instead of knowing it from an unenlightened but informed viewpoint.
Well, I think the BRICS' 2040 plan is the final decisive battle with the United States, because the de-dollarization of the BRICS is the ultimate trend, and the United States will never allow the BRICS to successfully de-dollarize, so the contradictions and conflicts between the two sides are inevitable. In other words, the United States and the BRICS will have a life-and-death battle.
The year 2040 will be the transition period between the current globalization and the next round of globalization. World wars often occur at this time. From the current international trends, it is not difficult to see that the conflict between the BRICS and the United States may be the main geopolitical conflict in 2040.
In other words, the final battle between the BRICS and the G7 countries (UK, France, Germany, Japan and Italy) led by the United States.
The outcome of this war will determine who will lead the next round of globalization after 2040.
Starting from 2040, the world will enter the era of world government. From that time on, the contradiction between the world government and sovereign states will rise to become the main contradiction and will lead to the outbreak of the Fourth World War around 2100.
After World War IV, the world will establish the absolute rule of a world government, and humanity will enter the interstellar age. The conflict between Earthlings and those in other planetary colonies will become the primary conflict, igniting an interstellar war. In other words, the battlefield of World War V will shift from Earth to the entirety of space, spanning the latter half of human civilization.
The contradiction between developing and developed countries is the principal contradiction of this century, the contradiction between world government and sovereign states is the principal contradiction of the next century, and the contradiction between the Earth and other planets will be the principal contradiction of the second half of human civilization.
Conflicts will always exist, and wars will never stop, because human greed will never stop.
Everything we see today—the rise of Trump, the frenzy of his supporters, and the global unrest—is a manifestation of the conflict between the BRICS and the United States. The rise of the BRICS, and especially China's, has led to a clear shift of resources and wealth previously controlled by developed countries toward the BRICS.
For example, Russia launched the Russo-Ukrainian War, the essence of which is that Russia has long been suppressed at the bottom of the global energy market.
Furthermore, the BRICS's de-dollarization efforts stem from the United States' long-term dominance of global resources and wealth through the dollar's hegemony, forcing developing countries to seek cooperation and protection from the BRICS mechanism.
Consequently, the conflict between the two sides is irreconcilable.
With different leadership reconciliation could be possible.
How old is China? 5000 years old? 333 generations? America is barely 250 years old .:. 17 generations. All civilizations are prone to overreach, and they do. America under this president is an early adolescent. America is the best and worst of the human spirit.
Many of us are working towards a new America, but we have to let it crash first, then rebuild.
What if 2040 was not an external war, but internal to each person? What if the war was the victory of spirit over the ego? All battles are won in the mind and spirit first .:. Reminds me of Sun Tsu
As a thought experiment - What if the governments of America and China both collapsed, how do the people evolve.
If that's your assumption, I can assure you that the world will not be peaceful, but rather even more turbulent. This is because the gaps left by China and the US will be quickly filled by new forces, such as tech giants. Under their leadership, they will establish a cyberpunk-like society and transform everyone into "digital slaves," ushering in the darkest hour for human civilization.
Human greed is boundless and difficult to curb. Sino-US competition is only one manifestation of this. Even without Sino-US competition, humans will still kill and wage war against each other. This is human nature, and it cannot be changed.
Hi, I am not trying to make any assumptions. There is a lot that I know and a lot more that I don’t know. I try to continually learn.
I am concerned though about the darkness of your worldview. Everything ends in war. Is it all tribal contestation? Yet BRICS is trying to model collaboration on the world stage. Collaboration amongst different states of differing government types. Not a federation but a partnership network. A new way. It is a light in a dark world at a time of global inflection points and shifting focuse and alliances. BRICS has a platform for some consistency in a world where certain dominances that are ending create chaotic environments for citizens and global relationships. Relationships are messy, life is messy. It doesn’t mean it isn’t worth living.
There is a saying in China that goes, "People die for money and birds die for food."
Wealth is the main object of competition among the entire human civilization, and the flow of wealth can only be one-way, not two-way.
In other words, there is no "WIn-win", only "single-win".
Even American politicians talk about "win-win = China wins twice." which means American elites are very clear that the past globalization system is extremely beneficial to China and Russia-led BRICS, but extremely unfavorable to the United States (not only did the United States lose its industrial base in globalization, resulting in industrial hollowing out, but it also caused the polarization of rich and poor and social divisions in the United States).
Therefore, Trump came to power to destroy the globalization that is beneficial to the BRICS, suppress the BRICS countries in new ways, and even attempt to destroy the BRICS countries. This is why I say that the BRICS and the United States will go to war sooner or later, and the contradictions between the two sides on the flow of wealth are irreconcilable.
If the US wants to regain control of the flow of wealth, it has no choice but to destroy the BRICS. Similarly, if the BRICS want to successfully de-dollarize and control the flow of wealth, they must engage in a decisive battle with the US. Both sides are fighting for their own interests and survival; there is no distinction between "right" and "wrong."
The foundational principles of BRICS is collaboration. That requires a Win-for-one AND a Win-for-the-Other.
You seem to want the Eagle Dragon War. Please remember that the people of the Eagle are not the same as the government. Most of us do not want a war and do not have a voice in our government…
In this the Chinese people and the American people are the same. America talks democracy, but it is as autocratic as Russia and China and Egypt.
Instead of a vision of war, maybe you can visualize a space we we coexist, where we can be Brothers of Peace instead of soldiers looking at each other across the battlefield.
What vision do you want? If you follow I Ching, you know the flow of energy follows your vision.
I don't want a war between China and the United States. I prefer a world of human coexistence.
But this is ultimately just a beautiful fantasy. Human greed dooms them to war.
The United States will not allow China and the BRICS to grow stronger, so a war between them is inevitable. If the United States were to seek war with the BRICS, it would not consult the American people, just as it did not consult the American people during the Iraq War.
American elites won't simply tell the American people, "Hey, we're unhappy with the BRICS, so we need a war with them." They will use various tactics, such as media manipulation and even false flag operations, to lure the United States into a war with them. American elites understand that if the BRICS rise, their advantages will disappear.
Therefore, they will not allow the rise of China or other BRICS countries.
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Thank you writer
Giving the lifespan of the Earth as around 600 million years has a very distant relation with the content of the link provided about the age of the earth. Isn't this a typo?
You are better off using the I Ching to show yourself where you are right now so that you might enable yourself to be in a higher state of consciousness, or Enlightenment. Then you will be uplifting the future to a higher level instead of knowing it from an unenlightened but informed viewpoint.
Thank you for writing. It was a good history. However you didn’t really wrap it into the effects on BRICS+ or BRICS+ 2040 plans via the I Ching.
Can you please write a part 2 incorporating that information?
Well, I think the BRICS' 2040 plan is the final decisive battle with the United States, because the de-dollarization of the BRICS is the ultimate trend, and the United States will never allow the BRICS to successfully de-dollarize, so the contradictions and conflicts between the two sides are inevitable. In other words, the United States and the BRICS will have a life-and-death battle.
The year 2040 will be the transition period between the current globalization and the next round of globalization. World wars often occur at this time. From the current international trends, it is not difficult to see that the conflict between the BRICS and the United States may be the main geopolitical conflict in 2040.
In other words, the final battle between the BRICS and the G7 countries (UK, France, Germany, Japan and Italy) led by the United States.
The outcome of this war will determine who will lead the next round of globalization after 2040.
Starting from 2040, the world will enter the era of world government. From that time on, the contradiction between the world government and sovereign states will rise to become the main contradiction and will lead to the outbreak of the Fourth World War around 2100.
After World War IV, the world will establish the absolute rule of a world government, and humanity will enter the interstellar age. The conflict between Earthlings and those in other planetary colonies will become the primary conflict, igniting an interstellar war. In other words, the battlefield of World War V will shift from Earth to the entirety of space, spanning the latter half of human civilization.
The contradiction between developing and developed countries is the principal contradiction of this century, the contradiction between world government and sovereign states is the principal contradiction of the next century, and the contradiction between the Earth and other planets will be the principal contradiction of the second half of human civilization.
Conflicts will always exist, and wars will never stop, because human greed will never stop.
Everything we see today—the rise of Trump, the frenzy of his supporters, and the global unrest—is a manifestation of the conflict between the BRICS and the United States. The rise of the BRICS, and especially China's, has led to a clear shift of resources and wealth previously controlled by developed countries toward the BRICS.
For example, Russia launched the Russo-Ukrainian War, the essence of which is that Russia has long been suppressed at the bottom of the global energy market.
Furthermore, the BRICS's de-dollarization efforts stem from the United States' long-term dominance of global resources and wealth through the dollar's hegemony, forcing developing countries to seek cooperation and protection from the BRICS mechanism.
Consequently, the conflict between the two sides is irreconcilable.
Hmmmmm
With different leadership reconciliation could be possible.
How old is China? 5000 years old? 333 generations? America is barely 250 years old .:. 17 generations. All civilizations are prone to overreach, and they do. America under this president is an early adolescent. America is the best and worst of the human spirit.
Many of us are working towards a new America, but we have to let it crash first, then rebuild.
What if 2040 was not an external war, but internal to each person? What if the war was the victory of spirit over the ego? All battles are won in the mind and spirit first .:. Reminds me of Sun Tsu
As a thought experiment - What if the governments of America and China both collapsed, how do the people evolve.
Because human evolution is the time we are in.
xie xie
If that's your assumption, I can assure you that the world will not be peaceful, but rather even more turbulent. This is because the gaps left by China and the US will be quickly filled by new forces, such as tech giants. Under their leadership, they will establish a cyberpunk-like society and transform everyone into "digital slaves," ushering in the darkest hour for human civilization.
Human greed is boundless and difficult to curb. Sino-US competition is only one manifestation of this. Even without Sino-US competition, humans will still kill and wage war against each other. This is human nature, and it cannot be changed.
Hi, I am not trying to make any assumptions. There is a lot that I know and a lot more that I don’t know. I try to continually learn.
I am concerned though about the darkness of your worldview. Everything ends in war. Is it all tribal contestation? Yet BRICS is trying to model collaboration on the world stage. Collaboration amongst different states of differing government types. Not a federation but a partnership network. A new way. It is a light in a dark world at a time of global inflection points and shifting focuse and alliances. BRICS has a platform for some consistency in a world where certain dominances that are ending create chaotic environments for citizens and global relationships. Relationships are messy, life is messy. It doesn’t mean it isn’t worth living.
There is a saying in China that goes, "People die for money and birds die for food."
Wealth is the main object of competition among the entire human civilization, and the flow of wealth can only be one-way, not two-way.
In other words, there is no "WIn-win", only "single-win".
Even American politicians talk about "win-win = China wins twice." which means American elites are very clear that the past globalization system is extremely beneficial to China and Russia-led BRICS, but extremely unfavorable to the United States (not only did the United States lose its industrial base in globalization, resulting in industrial hollowing out, but it also caused the polarization of rich and poor and social divisions in the United States).
Therefore, Trump came to power to destroy the globalization that is beneficial to the BRICS, suppress the BRICS countries in new ways, and even attempt to destroy the BRICS countries. This is why I say that the BRICS and the United States will go to war sooner or later, and the contradictions between the two sides on the flow of wealth are irreconcilable.
If the US wants to regain control of the flow of wealth, it has no choice but to destroy the BRICS. Similarly, if the BRICS want to successfully de-dollarize and control the flow of wealth, they must engage in a decisive battle with the US. Both sides are fighting for their own interests and survival; there is no distinction between "right" and "wrong."
Thank you
The foundational principles of BRICS is collaboration. That requires a Win-for-one AND a Win-for-the-Other.
You seem to want the Eagle Dragon War. Please remember that the people of the Eagle are not the same as the government. Most of us do not want a war and do not have a voice in our government…
In this the Chinese people and the American people are the same. America talks democracy, but it is as autocratic as Russia and China and Egypt.
Instead of a vision of war, maybe you can visualize a space we we coexist, where we can be Brothers of Peace instead of soldiers looking at each other across the battlefield.
What vision do you want? If you follow I Ching, you know the flow of energy follows your vision.
I don't want a war between China and the United States. I prefer a world of human coexistence.
But this is ultimately just a beautiful fantasy. Human greed dooms them to war.
The United States will not allow China and the BRICS to grow stronger, so a war between them is inevitable. If the United States were to seek war with the BRICS, it would not consult the American people, just as it did not consult the American people during the Iraq War.
American elites won't simply tell the American people, "Hey, we're unhappy with the BRICS, so we need a war with them." They will use various tactics, such as media manipulation and even false flag operations, to lure the United States into a war with them. American elites understand that if the BRICS rise, their advantages will disappear.
Therefore, they will not allow the rise of China or other BRICS countries.