America will have to depend on Asia to renew progress ?

Interesting paper.

Benjamin Deniston  writing at LarouchePublications:
....The present physical-economic collapse of the United States is the result of four decades of stagnation and attrition. Living standards have collapsed, industry has been shut down, power per capita has decreased, and aging infrastructure systems are breaking down. The only way to overcome the accumulated physical collapse in the United States (let alone the entire world) is to create greater leaps to higher levels of progress.

The United States will already need to partner with these Asian nations for the development and implementation of the fourth generation nuclear requirements of the NAWAPA XXI system itself,[1] but the implications of the construction and development of the project take the connection deeper, and connecting the North American and Eurasian landmasses across the Bering Strait with high-speed magnetic-levitation (maglev) rail is a keystone.......

.....On one end, the manufacturing centers of the Midwestern United States and the critical Pacific ports in California and Washington State, can be connected north, into the Canadian and Alaskan regions of NAWAPA XXI, and from there, on to the Alaska side of the Bering Strait, all with maglev rail.

This is premised on the role of the Pacific ports in existing trade relations (and their physical-economic implications), and the future role of the Midwest as a new high-technology industrial base in America.

At the other end, the high-technology regions of China, South Korea, and Japan can be linked up on the Asian side, with maglev lines traveling from southern China, to create a loop connecting China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan (through Hokkaido), Russia's Sakhalin Island, the Russian mainland, and back down into China. From this, a connection runs north, through eastern Russia, meeting the maglev Bering Strait connection from Siberia.

This East Asia side links the relevant ports, along with the high-technology and industrial centers of South Korea, Japan, and China, including the Russian plans for an advanced space industry complex (along the Svobodny-Komsovolsk corridor) in the region, centered around the new Vostochny Cosmodrome.[4]

Taken together, this defines an initial functional system, in which high-speed maglev rail and a nuclear-thermonuclear driver can support the development of the Pacific Rim, connecting the high-technology and industrial centers of the United States and East Asia, through the NAWAPA and Siberian territories..........