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The Long Twentieth Century QUOTES

The Long Twentieth Century QUOTES

1 " While the US was bogged down in Iraq, China continued to grow at a rapid pace, acquiring financial reserves and friends throughout the world as quickly as the United States was losing them. "

― Giovanni Arrighi , The Long Twentieth Century

2 " before humanity chokes (or basks) in the dungeon
(or paradise) of a Western-centered global empire or of an East Asian-centered world-market society, “it might well burn up in the horrors (or glories) of the escalating violence that has accompanied the liquidation of the Cold War world order. "

― Giovanni Arrighi , The Long Twentieth Century