{"id":173747,"date":"2021-05-21T08:54:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T08:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=202461"},"modified":"2021-05-21T08:54:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T08:54:23","slug":"china-the-u-s-and-the-idea-of-national-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/21\/china-the-u-s-and-the-idea-of-national-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"China, the U.S., and the Idea of National Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of competition between nations that elected officials invoke to explain why trade agreements must be passed, certain industries must be supported, the largest military-industrial complex in world history must be sustained, and the living standards of working people can\u2019t be raised, points to the imperialist nature of capitalism. Capitalist competition&#8212; or economic competition  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/21\/china-the-u-s-and-the-idea-of-national-competition\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/21\/china-the-u-s-and-the-idea-of-national-competition\/\">China, the U.S., and the Idea of National Competition<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/21\/china-the-u-s-and-the-idea-of-national-competition\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of competition between nations that elected officials invoke to explain why trade agreements must be passed, certain industries must be supported, the largest military-industrial complex in world history must be sustained, and the living stand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173840,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173747\/revisions\/173840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}