Are you watching? Or are you too busy being a partisan?

[justoffal]

China is absolutely roaring to life. There is a five hundred foot tall dragon standing on the horizon taking a very long, very deep breath right now.

The decades of cultural discipline while the West concentrated on men wearing dresses has done its work.

Generations of non DEI Chinese engineering graduates are forming an insurmountable army of technological prowess unlike anything seen before.

Don't bother to wake up now... It would only be too painful to realize you cannot rectify the gap any longer. Keep on thinking that your value system will save you. Isn't that how all good fairy tales end?

Next move? It isn't anything like you would imagine it should be... Or anything that you would be able to accept. Stay asleep and keep on imagining that less than 5% of the world's population will continue to control the other 95% forever.

Jo

 

[Ace Nova]

China is absolutely roaring to life. There is a five hundred foot tall dragon standing on the horizon taking a very long, very deep breath right now.

The decades of cultural discipline while the West concentrated on men wearing dresses has done its work.

Generations of non DEI Chinese engineering graduates are forming an insurmountable army of technological prowess unlike anything seen before.

Don't bother to wake up now... It would only be too painful to realize you cannot rectify the gap any longer. Keep on thinking that your value system will save you. Isn't that how all good fairy tales end?

Next move? It isn't anything like you would imagine it should be... Or anything that you would be able to accept. Stay asleep and keep on imagining that less than 5% of the world's population will continue to control the other 95% forever.

Jo

China has made some amazing strides.

That said, China is (without question) dependent on the West's addiction to cheap consumer goods. Without The U.S., Europe, Western Countries buying their goods - China's economy would crash.

China currently has nearly a ONE TRILLION DOLLAR NET TRADE SURPLUS with countries around the world - 60% of that coming from just the U.S. and Europe.

 

[justoffal]

China has made some amazing strides.

That said, China is (without question) dependent on the West's addiction to cheap consumer goods. Without The U.S., Europe, Western Countries buying their goods - China's economy would crash.

China currently has nearly a ONE TRILLION DOLLAR NET TRADE surplus with countries around the world - 60% of that coming from JUST the U.S. and Europe.

Currently they have an Achilles heel..
But don't count on it being there forever.
They are aware of it.. which means they are actively looking for a way to get rid of it.

 

[pknopp]

China builds alliances. We threaten. That is why China is better preparing itself for the future.

All this other stuff is only news to divert from the corruption of the government.

 

[gipper]

China’s rise is a truly amazing story. A few decades ago, it was the poorest nation on the planet. Now they are winning in nearly every economic category. Massive and expanding middle class. Education, technology, science, manufacturing, automobile production, high speed rail, etc…. I suspect few Americans are aware.

From 2012…
Furthermore, the vast majority of China’s newly created economic wealth has flowed to ordinary Chinese workers, who have moved from oxen and bicycles to the verge of automobiles in just a single generation. While median American incomes have been stagnant for almost forty years, those in China have nearly doubled every decade, with the real wages of workers outside the farm-sector rising about 150 percent over the last ten years alone. The Chinese of 1980 were desperately poor compared to Pakistanis, Nigerians, or Kenyans; but today, they are several times wealthier, representing more than a tenfold shift in relative income.

Ordinary Chinese workers have increased their real income by well over 1,000 percent in recent decades, while the corresponding figure for most American workers has been close to zero. If typical American wages were doubling every decade, there would be far less anger in our own society directed against the “One Percent.”

Meanwhile, the rapid concentration of American wealth continues apace: the richest 1 percent of America’s population now holds as much net wealth as the bottom 90–95 percent, and these trends may even be accelerating. A recent study revealed that during our supposed recovery of the last couple of years, 93 percent of the total increase in national income went to the top 1 percent, with an astonishing 37 percent being captured by just the wealthiest 0.01 percent of the population, 15,000 households in a nation of well over 300 million people.
China’s Rise, America’s Fall | Ron Unz – Writings and Perspectives

From 2024…
During the three decades to 2010, China achieved perhaps the most rapid sustained rate of economic development in the history of the human species, with its real economy growing almost 40-fold between 1978 and 2010. In 1978, America’s economy was 15 times larger, but according to most international estimates, China is now set to surpass America’s total economic output within just another few years.
American Pravda: A Rising China Faces the West

 

[22lcidw]

China builds alliances. We threaten. That is why China is better preparing itself for the future.

All this other stuff is only news to divert from the corruption of the government.

China wants to e top dog. They need us until they do not as we purchase their products.

 

[justoffal]

China builds alliances. We threaten. That is why China is better preparing itself for the future.

All this other stuff is only news to divert from the corruption of the government.

That's probably one of their strengths yes.
However no one can deny that they have concentrated correctly on the proper social mechanics while the United States and the rest of the West have driven down the wrong road.

 

[pknopp]

That's probably one of their strengths yes.
However no one can deny that they have concentrated correctly on the proper social mechanics while the United States and the rest of the West have driven down the wrong road.

They have made life better for their work force. Yes. Good move on their part. It wouldn't be where it is today if we had done the same and not sent the jobs there.

 

[gipper]

Furthermore, the vast majority of China’s newly created economic wealth has flowed to ordinary Chinese workers, who have moved from oxen and bicycles to the verge of automobiles in just a single generation. While median American incomes have been stagnant for almost forty years, those in China have nearly doubled every decade, with the real wages of workers outside the farm-sector rising about 150 percent over the last ten years alone. The Chinese of 1980 were desperately poor compared to Pakistanis, Nigerians, or Kenyans; but today, they are several times wealthier, representing more than a tenfold shift in relative income.

 

[justoffal]

Furthermore, the vast majority of China’s newly created economic wealth has flowed to ordinary Chinese workers, who have moved from oxen and bicycles to the verge of automobiles in just a single generation. While median American incomes have been stagnant for almost forty years, those in China have nearly doubled every decade, with the real wages of workers outside the farm-sector rising about 150 percent over the last ten years alone. The Chinese of 1980 were desperately poor compared to Pakistanis, Nigerians, or Kenyans; but today, they are several times wealthier, representing more than a tenfold shift in relative income.

Even more impressive is the technological wave rolling through China right now. After the past 10 or 15 years of constantly graduating 300,000 plus engineering students per year... The influx of that knowledge into the Chinese economy is creating a tech gap that simply cannot be challenged. The speed with which they are solving technical issues in the engineering fields is astonishing.

 

[gipper]

Even more impressive is the technological wave rolling through China right now. After the past 10 or 15 years of constantly graduating 300,000 plus engineering students per year... The influx of that knowledge into the Chinese economy is creating a tech gap that simply cannot be challenged. The speed with which they are solving technical issues in the engineering fields is astonishing.

Agreed. They are advancing at extraordinary speed. Now with the US pushing Russian into alliance with China, their combination of industrial might with unlimited resources can’t be matched by the US.

If only we had statesmen in DC pushing cooperative relations with China, rather than confrontational.

China’s industrial strength is enormous, with its real productive economy already larger than the combined total for America, the European Union, and Japan. But add to that the huge energy supplies and other natural resources of its remarkably complementary Russian neighbor, and the two together probably outweigh the power of America and its allies.

 

[justoffal]

Agreed. They are advancing at extraordinary speed. Now with the US pushing Russian into alliance with China, their combination of industrial might with unlimited resources can’t be matched by the US.

If only we had statesmen in DC pushing cooperative relations with China, rather than confrontational.

China’s industrial strength is enormous, with its real productive economy already larger than the combined total for America, the European Union, and Japan. But add to that the huge energy supplies and other natural resources of its remarkably complementary Russian neighbor, and the two together probably outweigh the power of America and its allies.

This is why it is so important to normalize relations with Russia now. Ukraine will be just fine. They are not going to get back the fucked territories by war. They may have better success doing it another way.

 

[gipper]

This is why it is so important to normalize relations with Russia now. Ukraine will be just fine. They are not going to get back the fucked territories by war. They may have better success doing it another way.

I’d like to believe Trump seeks to end US support for the provoked war in Ukraine and good relations with Russia, but I’m skeptical.

 

[Independent thinker]

China is absolutely roaring to life. There is a five hundred foot tall dragon standing on the horizon taking a very long, very deep breath right now.

The decades of cultural discipline while the West concentrated on men wearing dresses has done its work.

Generations of non DEI Chinese engineering graduates are forming an insurmountable army of technological prowess unlike anything seen before.

Don't bother to wake up now... It would only be too painful to realize you cannot rectify the gap any longer. Keep on thinking that your value system will save you. Isn't that how all good fairy tales end?

Next move? It isn't anything like you would imagine it should be... Or anything that you would be able to accept. Stay asleep and keep on imagining that less than 5% of the world's population will continue to control the other 95% forever.

Jo

When I was a young child my mother used to tell me to watch China because sometime in the future they would take over the world. I just laughed her off because everyone knew that Russia was the big threat. Now I see that she may have been a prophet.