The China’s CGTN television network interviewed Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder of the Schiller Institute, on the trade war between China and the U.S. and the way out. Notable were her answers to two of the questions:

“I think that the United States really has to go back to their own best traditions of the American system of economy and otherwise … overcome this idea … that you have to be the number one and dominant over all others. Because there is no way how anybody, the United States or anybody else, can contain the rise of China. It’s a country which has 1.4 billion people, and they have taken the lead based on an economy based on innovation. You can’t contain it—so just live with it and, you know, cooperate.”

Is this possible? “The world has changed and President Trump came into the White House the second time in a world which was completely different than his first term, because the countries of the global south have risen due to the rise of China, and extending the economic cooperation through the Belt and Road Initiative; and therefore I think the BRICS, and the many countries aspiring to become part of the BRICS, are a new factor in the situation which I’m confident will impact the more rational thinking people in the United States—that the world has changed and the United States will have to adapt.”