Posted on 09/13/2021 7:21:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Is China the next superpower? Is the media's depiction of the country as a ten-foot giant really accurate? That's dubious. For all its bluster on the global stage, China is a giant in trouble.
Here are some of the reasons we know:
Perhaps the biggest problem in China is its erstwhile "one child" policy, which created many single, self-absorbed adults with poor social skills and an entitlement mindset that included no great desire to marry young and bear the financial burden of offspring. China switched to a two-child policy and recently revised it to allow three children per family. But it's too little, too late. The best result is that in about 20 years, the Chinese population will probably be more than halved anyway, instead of something worse, and the elderly will be a great burden on their single offspring and the economy.
Already only about 10% of China's young population is getting married, which implies an even more precipitous drop in population in the future. China does not encourage immigration from abroad, so a precipitous drop in population will have a drastically bad impact on a shrinking economy and even on the social life of the average Chinese.
Another problem is income disparity, with a vast gulf of differences between a tiny urban elite and the country's many urban and rural poor. It's an even greater disparity in income wealth distribution than exists in the United States. That may be a reason why the CCP has decided to crack down on glorified celebrities and wealthy capitalists and is forcefully trying to redistribute their wealth, especially to the tech working class, who largely have been working a 996 shift, which means working from 9 A.M. to 9 P.M.., six days a week.
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In China’s rush to outcompete the West by stealing intellectual property and making cheap knockoffs, the Chinese are developing a bad, unethical reputation internationally. That reduces its clout.
Amazon has finally stopped selling thousands of counterfeit Chinese goods on the internet, and many stock investors are beginning to pull their money out of Chinese company stocks, fearing more strong-arm censorship tactics from the CCP such as making for-profit tutoring companies illegal.
SEE HERE:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1231485.shtml
Coming to a head like a beer? Sounds like Gordon Chang. Remember Tiannamen Square was 30+ years ago.
China’s first nuclear-powered submarine, the Type 091, or Han-class was an ambitious project that gave China skin in the nuclear submarine game. Though the Han-class is nuclear powered, it suffered from an apparently high noise level. The Type 093 was built to address this very issue.
Submarines are only a good as their noise level—the quieter a submarine, the stealthier it is. One of the main factors that contribute to noise levels are propeller blades, which can cause an underwater phenomenon called cavitation, where bubbles form along the blade edges and cause underwater noise.
Another noisy factor is the submarine’s propulsion system. For diesel-electric submarines, diesel generator machinery can cause a great deal of noise. Nuclear-powered submarines also generate some noise, chiefly the coolant pumps that service the reactor core.
The Shang-class is much quieter—and may have gotten some Russian design help.
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A wounded wild predator is far more dangerous than one that is not wounded.
Desperate times call for desperate actions - even by countries. The argument can be made that that is what led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Industrialization is polluting the water supply and countryside, farmers are restricted from moving into cities for fear that food shortages will escalate, wealthy celebrities and capitalists are being financially cut down to size or ostracized, there is a housing bubble that threatens to decimate the real estate business and many workers with it, and the average citizen is being terrorized by a social credit system and cell phone surveillance, all designed to create fear in dissenters and rule-breakers.
There are many signs of hasty faulty planning and building, which is resulting in high-rise building and bridge defects and even collapses, overflowing dams, and severe flooding conditions that are ruining potable drinking water and disrupting many lives. All of this is just further evidence that China has troubles up the wazoo and will have even more in the foreseeable future.
China may still have a favorable balance of trade with other nations, but it seems as though the CCP's unethical attempt to force more traditional communism onto the nation will result in long-duration suffering for the people and an inability to become a respected dominant political player in the international field. The CCP is attempting to further increase centralized top-down government planning, which is always disastrous in the long run and portends failure and misery for China, similar to the final failure of the Soviet Union government.
Many failing debt-overloaded businesses are being subsidized by a deficit spending government, so bankruptcies are still few and far between, but the day of financial reckoning is rapidly coming.
Don't get me wrong, we are just as badly crippled. The United States is in bad shape morally and economically, but the power of money has corrupted the leadership of China to the point where no amount of coercive CCP effort will solve the problems. China's troubles will balloon in the foreseeable future. China is in trouble, and the CCP's strong-arm tactics, censorship, and high housing costs are just making a bad situation worse for the average Chinese citizen.
China is the world’s preeminent manufacturer.
One only has to visit a Wal-Mart to see Chinese manufacturing superiority.
If you file for a patent in the US, the patent examiner is likely to have a Chinese name.
IMHO, the invasion from the south is God's way of saying: "You don't want to give your inheritence to your children - ok, I'll give it to foreigners!
China will get more dangerous as it sinks, not less.
RE: We have our own ‘population’ problem.
Definitely, ours is a deep moral rot from within that is now culminating in tens of millions of people voting for a corrupt government that is trying to destroy the American way of life and our freedoms.
But let’s not pretend that China doesn’t have problems of its own.
It remains to be seen which of the two superpowers will be in decline faster.
China is crippled by their aversion to failure which means they don’t test things. Put it up, put it in and then get away from it. Inspectors checked by bribe. That’s why things collapse.
I’ve seen these stories before. Yes, China has problems. But that doesn’t mean it’s about to collapse. It might mean they are going to cause even more mischief, even start a war.
How's that different from here?
Yeah. This is all Horsechit. One day soon the Chicoms will say “Supplies! We own the world now. And what are you gonna do about it? Write articles?”
Like with the Soviet Union, they are as dangerous as their weapons and their desire to use them. When the Soviets collapsed, we found that many of their weapons were paper tigers.
Well, as to your last paragraph, yeah, I see the entire “civilized” world as on its last legs. I give it less than five years. Keep your powder dry and your pantry stocked.
The small family size is a statistic that confuses more than it informs.
If the productive law abiding intelligent families were breeding like rabbits and the gimmedat families were not having kids there would be no issue....
And most importantly, remember who is in charge and pray to Him at least daily.
I compare what is happening to the process of birth. The journey through the birth canal is not a thing to look forward to, but what waits on the other side is quite literally beyond our wildest imagination.
And, the troll chimes in again.
Remind me, in all earnestness.
DID you vote for President Trump in the 2020 election?
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