{"id":238230,"date":"2023-07-31T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=238230"},"modified":"2023-07-25T09:49:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T08:49:23","slug":"pax-americana-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/07\/pax-americana-really\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Pax&#8217; Americana? Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><em><span class=\"ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">US Democrats and Republicans scream about the &#8216;threat&#8217; of Russia and China. Meanwhile, the US military has weapons pointed at the entire world&#8211;and beyond.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Pax Americana<\/em> <strong>[aka joke of the century]<\/strong> is a term applied to the idea of a relative peace in the world after the end of World War II in 1945, when the United States became the world&#8217;s dominant economic, cultural, and military power. The opposite happened and that good idea never came to fruition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-238213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/uncle-sam-peace-taiwan-china-Global-Times-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/uncle-sam-peace-taiwan-china-Global-Times-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/uncle-sam-peace-taiwan-china-Global-Times-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/uncle-sam-peace-taiwan-china-Global-Times-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/uncle-sam-peace-taiwan-china-Global-Times.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>______________________________________________<\/p>\n<div class=\"wDYxhc\" lang=\"en-PT\" data-md=\"61\">\n<div class=\"LGOjhe\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" role=\"heading\" data-attrid=\"wa:\/description\" aria-level=\"3\" data-hveid=\"CBYQAA\"><em><span class=\"ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">Liu Rui has been a cartoonist for <\/span><\/span><\/em><span class=\"ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">Global Times <\/span><\/span><em><span class=\"ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">since 2003. She is interested in political cartoons and illustrations.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div role=\"heading\" data-attrid=\"wa:\/description\" aria-level=\"3\" data-hveid=\"CBYQAA\"><\/div>\n<div role=\"heading\" data-attrid=\"wa:\/description\" aria-level=\"3\" data-hveid=\"CBYQAA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/food-for-thought-logo-e1571992934692.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-142064\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/food-for-thought-logo-e1571992934692.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"79\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Democrats and Republicans scream about the &#8216;threat&#8217; of Russia and China. Meanwhile, the US military has weapons pointed at the entire world&#8211;and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":142064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[244,1061,1012,278,70],"class_list":["post-238230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-for-thought","tag-china","tag-cold-war-ii","tag-food-for-thought-editorial-cartoon","tag-russia","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240139,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238230\/revisions\/240139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}