Now China, the largest exporter of US oil stops importing from there.
We know China is the most hungry country for oil, so I'm sure the US will feel this one.

The war continues... Let's see who will hurt the most.

Trump main focus is to prevent China from overtaking US GDP wise - (some experts had predicted this would happen in less than 10yrs, when trump could still be in office). So, Trade war is just a means to an end. That's why he will make deals with everyone else..EU, Japan, North America, etc but not China.

US will sweat this one out, China has factors of production and global market access on their side. Those Trump bully tactics will not work here.

It will be no walk in the park for china. It's a matter of when, not if, the American and European companies who invested in china start moving factories elsewhere, to escape the tariffs. And it's time for countries like Kenya to start recalibrating her global outlook once again

The US will continue to dominate for the foreseeable future. China has been surely slowed down, though not stopped altogether

I also think that the US will continue to fight for world domination also in the future. If they will be able to fully achieve this goal we shall see as there are several Eastern countries that are not so easy to be dominated

Your assertion thet America pressured Britain to give up her African countries; Would you care to share your sources?

@Monk, dig up a document known as Atlantic Charter negotiated sometimes in 1941 by Churchill and Roosevelt. This was Britain's attempt to solicit American support in the war against the Axis powers ... Roosevelt made sure self determination of all peoples was part of the deal - covered under clause 3 of the deal

@Monk, What you’ve quoted up there as the belief of the historians is Europe’s self-engineered face saving explanation to make historians believe they ended colonialism on their own terms. This cannot be further from the truth. The truth of the matter is that there was not one factor that led to end of colonialism. There were many factors that conspired and worked together to bring colonialism to an end, and the Atlantic Charter was the beginning of the end.
The following just a sample
• By the middle of the 20th Century, America had replaced British Empire as the new superpower. Since America itself was keen to dominate the world, they realized Britain exerted a lot of influence through her colonies in Asia and Africa. One of the Roosevelt’s objectives in the Atlantic charter was to pressurize Britain to allow self-determination for all peoples and hence diminish their weight on global arena. You should read the behind the scenes happenings around the Charter… e.g. When Churchill went to present the Charter to British parliament for adoption, there were jitters coz of the third clause …they didn’t want to give up the colonies in Asia and Africa…he tricked them to believe that the charter only applied to occupied Europe and not the colonies Asia and Africa…he thus and begged them to pass it in its form. But the Charter didn’t specify that Africa and Asia were excluded. When the other Allied powers passed the Charter in its form, Britain’s goose was cooked.
• Rise of nationalism in Africa colonies—The African peoples were more informed towards the middle of the 20th Century and were able to agitate for freedom thus applying pressure on the colonial powers
• Rebellion in African countries – The Europeans had spent a lot of money in the two European tribal wars and their economies were in tatters. They needed to focus more on rebuilding their economies. Fighting rebellions in Africa (against the wish of America) was not a priority any more
• Formation of United Nations – The UN Charter was very clear about self-determination. Following adoption of UN Charter, it was only a matter of when, not if, when all the colonies would get self determination

If you want to know Britain would never have left Africa, look at countries that never resisted – Australia, Canada, the Cayman, etc. To date they still pledge allegiance to the Queen. Other Countries that formed feeble or minimal resistance like Zimbabwe were occupied for the longest time at Britain’s Pleasure.
As for South Africa the case was different. There was huge white population since Mzungu had settled there much earlier and had already entrenched themselves, so it was not a question of Mzungu leaving but how the two could coexist. Hence the problem here was Apartheid. America itself had it’s own racial discrimination practises and had no moral authority to criticize the policy, hence the seeming double standards.

We seem to agree on some points...and not agree in others. My contention is that European powers were forced to abandon colonialism by a confluence of factors against their wish....And that the rise of America had a major role to play in the process. However America was driven more by self interest not necessarily good heartedness