I think it's vital, at this point, to consider the distinct possibility that "China wins" is the default global outcome when considering what kind of country the US should be politically & economically. If you don't like communism *or* you don't like ethnostates, that matters
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China has a huge population & seems to have far fewer scruples when it comes to stealing IP, developing unpopular/plausibly unethical tech, sorting out & rigorously educating the most capable young people, & streamlining political moves by subduing the general population
AFAICT, it's only a bit less communist than it looks & quite a lot more interested in ethnic supremacy. I don't think it's a country most westerners would want to live in. How hawkish it is now & how hawkish it'd be if indisputably the most powerful state on the planet is a big ?
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The coming (huge) demographic crunch is really going to put that to the test. Rapid growth makes any political equilibrium stable. They might be in for a hard landing with much slow growth, and that might change the plans of those now at the top.
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Ever since Deng Xiaoping it’s been more on the side of capitalist than communist, but a distinct brand without a completely free market or level playing field.
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I think the US still has a lot of soft economic power it could use to discourage the awful racial and religious problems going on there, but certainly can’t reply in the big corps to do it for the sake of goodness.
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"Only a bit less communist than it looks?" hum I guess you to travel a bit or read some serious book about China. Even in School, they seems to be learning that Communism will be reimplemented when the country will be rich enough.
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To this apparently under-traveled schmuck, vehemently capitalist nations seem generally unlikely to teach in schools that one day glorious pure communism will returnpic.twitter.com/1xRsgIYVMX
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