If we want to, we can still out produce either or both combined. What we dont want to do is wreck the dollar doing that. Russia is wrecking its currency and economy. China has wasted Trillians on show case cities that are unoccupied. And its not a fair comparison to make between a somewhat free market economy like ours and state owned economies of russia and china in any case.
Thus the tariff policies to get trade imbalances fixed and give the US worker a chance to compete against chinese slave labor or russian state employees (which are basically paid slave wages)
“US GDP is still more than both the chinese and russian GDP combined. And not by a trivial lead. US GDP is 25T to 30T per year. Chinese GDP is about 17T. Russia has a GDP of 2T.”
I would have thought the “GDP” argument was played out by now.
It’s obvious it doesn’t correlate with industrial capacity. Or even potential industrial capacity.
(after 3 years, Russia is pulling away in terms of munitions and equipment output)