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FROM:  The American Analysis Group of the Public Security Subcommittee of the Central Committee TO:  General Secretary Xi Jinping RE:  The Decline of the United States Thank you for the opportunity to continue our important work on behalf of the Central Committee. We are honored that you allow us to contribute to the defense of China against the arrogant pretensions of the United States. America is degenerating and weakening. It is ruled by a typical imperialist bully. He is the usual combination of ignorance, arrogance and a belief that military might is the only basis of power and influence. He insults and extorts allies. He forgets that global power is based on industrial might; he is doing everything to undermine America’s industrial predominance. We are in a battle of innovation, a battle for the world’s economic future. The example of England is relevant here – they stopped innovating and declining power followed. America is overextended. An expensive...

OVERVIEW: In the future, what will be the relationship between central governments of nation-states and large private companies including multinational corporations (MNCs)? Private companies mean privately-owned, including companies with widespread ownership and secondary markets for the company stock. Like with the English East India Company (EIC) in the past, there are new questions about the relationships between the multinational company and the home country, and between the multinational company and foreign countries. T o what extent do economic organizations and political institutions overlap or are mutually dependent? To what extent are corporations, especially multinational corporations (MNCs), assuming political functions because of the failures of nation-states? INTRODUCTION The following comments are speculative. This is a possible scenario, not a forecast. It depends on assumptions about the future political organization of the world and the future possible power of multina...