Reality. Something that you do not get from the China worshipers around here. China has reached a tipping point and the contaminated product issue is helping to push them over. You can not sell something if no one will buy because they fear it will harm them.
We are being outworked. Outflanked. Outinvested. Outmanuvered.
I heard the same thing from people twenty years ago about the USSR and friends. Everything old is new again. It wasn't true then and it isn't true now.
And we sit and predict (other) countries are on the wrong track???
Yep. I can sit here and tell you that China is on the wrong track. How audacious of me!
Truth is most of the China worshipers don't love China, they just hate their fellow citizens.
I heard the same thing from people twenty years ago about the USSR and friends. Everything old is new again. It wasn’t true then and it isn’t true now.
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The Soviets were stuck in the trap of dogmatic Marxism and totalitarianism, without concern for paying for it.
We “won” the cold war by outspending the USSR. Guess what? China is doing to us, exactly what we did to ... the Soviets.
The Chinese have learned they can sell us things. The Soviet Union never, ever did that. They didn’t even try.
Then (the Chinese did not learn this, it has been the plan all along) China invests the 20 BILLION monthly trade deficit we send them (mostly to companies in China, affiliated with or owned by the PLA) to fund nuclear warheads and a blue-water navy, a space program, killer satellites, computer sciences ... by selling us cheap trinkets at Wal*mart.
At the same time, very rapidly de-industrializing their adversary (America) in the process.
AND WE DO IT!! Voluntarily.
(shaking head in disbelief)
You are optimistic. Good for you.
I think we’re sleeping. Or drunk.
Funny ... that's why I was studying Japanese twenty years ago. It was interesting, anyway, and I still remember how to say, "Where is the bathroom?" and, "Shut up and die."
Demography has swallowed Japan, and it will get China, too. Probably quicker than Japan, because China has a deadly residue of Marxism stifling true economic freedom.
Learn a foreign language simply for the pleasure of it, or study it because it's required for college. English is the future that matters, because it's a better language, from a practical standpoint, than the alternatives.
What countries or groups do you feel pose the biggest threat to the longevity of the United States?