https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/24/china-great-power-united-states/

  • Lil_Revolitionary [she/her,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I literally had to scroll through 20 paragraphs to even reach their "evidence" of china's decline (did you know that by 2050, 200 million people will retire? Devestating)

    • nohaybanda [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Lmao, looking at Western millenials and zoomers, by 2050 the Imperial core will be in a deep, DEEP demographics crisis. Pure fuckin projection from FP, as usual.

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Funny thing is, the other things they cite (importing lots of resources/food), the US imports more of (or very NEARLY more of) in total dollar amount.

      Food

      The United States, being one of the world’s largest economies, imports a total of $133 billion USD worth of food and food products, followed by China at $105.26 billion USD, Germany at $98.90 billion USD, Japan at $68.86 billion USD

      Seriously, the US imports more in total dollar amount than China, which has roughly 4 1/2 times the population (and is supposedly unable to grow anything any longer)

      Water

      In 2019, the top exporters of Water were France ($955M), China ($723M), Italy ($680M), Belgium ($203M), and Fiji ($168M). In 2019, the top importers of Water were United States ($701M), Hong Kong ($642M), Belgium ($261M), Germany ($238M), and Japan ($168M).

      Maybe the idiot read the table wrong, I got nothing here

      Energy

      Bit trickier, but China does import more oil/gas than the US (but not by much). Can't find anything showing purchase power agreements or similar though

      Sooo....where do I get a job where I get to be grossly incorrect and/or just make things up?

      Also:

      According to data from DBS Bank, it takes three times as many inputs to produce a unit of growth today as it did in the early 2000s.

      If only someone had predicted the rate of profit would fall

      And he has relentlessly pursued the centralization of power at the expense of economic prosperity.

      I suppose that is one way to frame central planning; whatever will the poor executiverinos do if they can't run wild and free?