Alternative Radio - Episode May 30, 2026

Learning from China The geopolitical checkerboard has seen, in recent years, a major shift. China, once a poor and ravaged country, is now challenging the U.S. for supremacy, and Washington doesn’t like it. The Pentagon is flexing its muscle. The U.S. military budget is over a trillion dollars and climbing. It’s triple what China spends. The Pentagon is planning for war. U.S. military bases surround China, yet Washington says that China is a threat. The U.S. is used to getting its way, but China won’t be easily bullied or pushed around. China has a global economic strategy. It is expanding its influence by investing in the Global South, particularly in Africa and Latin America. It is taking the lead in sustainable energy, manufacturing 80% of the world’s solar panels. While the U.S. is a military powerhouse, China is increasingly an economic one and most likely will supplant the U.S. as the global hegemon in the coming decades. Speaker: Richard Falk Richard Falk is professor emeritus of international law at Princeton. He is the recipient of the UNESCO Peace Education Prize. From 2008-2014, he served as the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. He is the author of numerous books, including The Great Terror War, Unlocking the Middle East, Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, and Chaos and Counterrevolution: After The Arab Spring. He is the co-author of Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine. At 95, he continues to lecture on politics and law. Description from www.alternativeradio.org