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WhiskeyDisk posted...

China can afford to play the long game here. Nothing of note is made in America anymore in quantities necessary to repel the economic invasion.

The sad part is, you say this as if it wasn't an inevitability.

The US's position in the world over the last 70 years or so was mostly predicated an artificial advantage gained once Europe devastated itself. And Europe's advantage over Asia was mostly just the unnatural benefit of industrializing while the rest of the world was still in an agricultural paradigm.

But Europe's mostly rebuilt itself, while China has successfully integrated agricultural advances and industrial technology, which means we're shifting back to the status quo that should have been in place all along. Where having the world's biggest population makes you the world's biggest superpower (militarily, economically, and culturally) by default.

If anything, China taking over the entire world economically is basically just the natural state of things reasserting itself.

The only real counter to that would be for China and India to basically go to war and annihilate each other so "The West" can continue to retain its grip on global influence in their absence, or for the US to invent some radically different advancement we can't even conceive of right now that gives us an advantage no one else can duplicate for decades. But neither of those things are even remotely likely, as most of our advances at this point are both quantitative rather than qualitative, and easily adoptable by anyone with a similar infrastructure.

Like it or not, this is the new world.

Though it's not like it matters, because unless you're Hispanic you're not going to have a say in US policy 50 years from now anyway.
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