Exactly, there’s so much mythology going on with China. Their economy is constantly reported in the media as kicking the crap out of everybody else’s because their communist system is so superior and in the words of Buttcrack Hussein, “They get things done.” BS, their economy is in the dumper and is on the edge of collapse. If we quit giving them special treatment on everything, it most likely will fail. They supposedly have this superior military, it’s not. They make pretty scale-models and tell a good story, that’s it. Their military has been on this huge buildup for 40 years and is still a joke. Like the USSR, manpower is all they’ve got. Slaves do not produce good products, that’s been demonstrated time and again through history. If a slave can do a half-assed job without getting caught, he WILL.
“They supposedly have this superior military, it’s not.”
Yeah, they bought an old POS Aircraft Carrier ( The Admiral Kuznetsov ) from the Russians, and have turned it into a floating turd! We make their military expansion possible by buying from them. Smart people don’t trade with those who are their sworn enemies. Unfortunately, up to 2016, we hadn’t had a president worth spit since RR left office. And Clinton was probably the worst in terms of letting the Chinese into our pants for a buck. Of the lot of them, I wake up every morning hoping that the day’s headline reads both Clintons died in a plane crash, or some awful disease. Or better still she shot him then herself.
The Chinese military should not be dismissed so cavalierly.
For starters, their navy doesn’t run around blundering into merchant ships. Ours does.
Their navy realized that the littoral warfare ship was stupid and they built frigates and destroyers instead. Ours only figured this out recently.
Their navy wasn’t stupid enough to take the CIWS systems off their ships. Ours was and is now hastily digging them out of warehouses and pulling them out of museums to put them back on ships.
On top of that, independent buyers of Chinese export weapons systems have found that many (not even most, to be fair) do actually perform as advertised.
You may want to read this: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/5-deadly-chinese-weapons-war-america-wishes-it-had-27567