ALL THINGS BIG AND SMALL 2.0

The US 'Empire" is flashing the common signals of an Empire in the last stage of decline. 1. Severe Debt Spirals and Currency Debasement Throughout history, (from the Spanish Empire, to the Roman Empire and nearly every Chinese Dynasty) late-stage empires consistently spent far more than they collected, resulting in massive debt and the "debasement" (or loss of purchasing power) of their currency.  The total US national debt has escalated sharply, surpassing $39 trillion. It is on track to hit a staggering 120 percent of GDP over the next decade.  An increasing percentage of the Federal budget is now spent purely on paying interest to debt holders.  Meanwhile, global trust in the US dollar's long-term dominance is gradually weakening as China, BRICS countries and ASEAN continue to reduce their dependence on the USD, and global Central Banks buy Gold at a record pace 2. Deepening Political Polarisation  Empires facing decay lose their ‘asabiyyah’—a term coined b...

  I have been watching Chinese historical dramas on YouTube, and in the English subtitles I often see the word "Ape Man", and soon found out that Ape Man meant Barbarians. The ancient Chinese on the Central Plains where the major  dynasties arose, viewed the non-Han peoples  of the border regions as Barbarians. In the map of ancient China as it was during the Spring and Autumn period that you see above,  China was a multitude of Kingdoms, Fiefdoms and tribal regions [there are 54 entities here]. The Barbarians inhabited the vast steppes of the North, the mountainous and forested regions of the South-East covering today's Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang provinces, the region where today's  Sichuan, Yunnan meet Qinghai and the Tibetan plateau, and the cold snow-covered region of today's Heilongjiang and Jilin Provinces that border Korea and Russia.  The table below shows how the ancient Chinese classified the Barbarians into 4 geographical areas. So we Hokkiens, ...