9/11 attacks pitted US against China
The strategy of the United States towards other countries underwent change, two decades after the 9/11 attacks.
Washington is now more inclined to
make efforts to fill in the void created by the collapse of the former Soviet
Union.
However, this caused the US to enter
useless wars that drained it militarily, financially and politically.
These losses caused the Americans to
prefer isolation, but this attitude weakened American influence around the
world.
It also gave rise to new powers that
posed economic threats to the world's sole superpower.
The US is now throwing down the
gauntlet to major international economic powers, especially after the great
economic rise of China.
9/11
On the evening of September 11,
2001, two passenger planes rammed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade
Center in New York.
The two towers came down crumbling
like a house of cards in less than two hours, creating a cloud of dust that
deafened America and the rest of the world with it.
A third plane destroyed the western
facade of the Pentagon building outside Washington DC and a fourth crashed in a
field in Pennsylvania after passengers resisted and controlled the hijackers.
The hijackers of the plane were
believed to have wanted to use the plane to attack the Capitol Building in DC.
Filling in the void
The administration of then president
George W. Bush tried to fill in the void caused by the collapse of the Soviet
Union after the attacks.
It formulated the 'global war on
terror' strategy which opened the door for protracted wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq.
In 2017, the US jumped into the
field to compete with major world powers, including China.
The Asian country emerged during the
last decade as an international economic superpower, posing threats to the
economic might of the US.
