In some ways China is better, in other ways not. We are rapidly descending into a dictatorship and tyranny. We essentially have a one party establishment. The surveillance is very advanced in the US; and while we don’t have concentration camps yet, we do have a very high rate of per capita imprisonment. Our median income, though still higher than China, is declining; China’s is increasing. The US is deindustrializing, China is industrializing. China had the one child policy; the US encourages abortions and as a nation, we will have to answer for 50+million dead babies.
The US is nothing like it was originally intended to be today. Our government is run by an evil cabal. I’m not saying that I would like to live in an unfamiliar and highly corrupt society. I would like to think we could restrain and reform our own.
When the Soviet Union fell, I think that most Russians were thankful that the US hastened the demise of their corrupt regime. Who knows what will happen in foreign affairs. But someday, the direct or indirect actions of a foreign power hostile to the corrupt US regime, may in fact deliver Americans from our corrupt and hostile regime. But OTOH, a war usually strengthens tyrants at home. And it seems to me that our corrupt regime wants a war against China as a way to consolidate tyranny at home. It’s the oldest trick in the history of nations.
As Jimmy Swaggert put it: Much Bible, much freedom. Little Bible, little freedom. No Bible, no freedom. All you have to do to see where we are heading is open your eyes and look around you. [This is used only as an illustration, In no way do I intend to infer that your eyes are not open.]