Talk: The Continuity of U. S. Imperialism [] Center for Global Justice

After four years of Donald Trump’s erratic foreign policies, many hoped for a more orderly world. And the Biden Administration now seeks to return to a world order under U.S. leadership — a una-polar world. Since the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the U.S. has sought to establish its dominance against all competitors, present and future. It sees the rise of China and of Russia as a threat. As Secretary of State Antony Blinken complained to the Chinese Foreign Minister, China is a “destabilizing force” in East Asia. Clearly, the U.S. is unwilling to accept a multi-polar world. It aims for a world order that reflects “our values and interests,” i.e. the interests of corporate capitalism.

Indian born Vijay Prashad is a voice from the global South who tells it like it is. He says the Biden foreign policy is the long-standing imperial policy of the country. It is the view of the foreign policy Establishment that sees the U. S. as “the indispensable nation,” the words of Madeleine Albright, without which there can only be “chaos and disorder,” in the words of Richard Haas, head of the Council on Foreign Relations. This is an imperial project for U.S. hegemony.

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