Edgetho
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China's downfall throughout history has been its arrogance. So they will probably self-destruct before they become a serious threat.Trump was making progress till the pandemic happened
Biden achieved nothing
We can still participate in the global economy without giving away the store to the chicoms
China is a predatory mercantile adversary and we do not have to be their patsy
But a State-Directed economy, especially when it's State-Directed Capitlaism can be very efficient. Hitler did it. National Socialism was a State Directed economy. Had Hitler not been a megolmaniacal nutcase, he very well might have ruled the world. All he had to do was wait another 5 years to start his murderous invasions and he couldn't have been stopped.
I don't see the Chinese as being particularly militaristic. They don't want to tangle with Japan, Taiwan or South Korea. Or, especially -- Us.
I also understand that China is facing real, serious, population shrinkage. It could be propaganda but their "One-Child" policy virtually wiped out an entire generation of females.
Besides, it isn't so much that China is all that brilliant when it comes to manufacturing, it's the fact that we're so stupid. All their factories, most of their engineering -- Designed by Americans, Germans and Japanese. In the old days.
Now they have indigenous people taking over. While we're graduating stinking, thieving, lying lawyers, they're graduating Engineers and Doctors. While we have 76 quintillion Womens studies degrees running through our society, the Chinese have scientists and engineers and mathematicians.