U.S. retains a commanding advantage in one, especially critical export: ideas. From inalienable rights to Iron Man, Americans churn out the concepts and culture that make the modern world tick, more and better than anyone else.

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA

:michael-laugh:

They are so high on their own American Exceptionalism they probably actually believe this too holy fuck.

The thing with any issue China is or isn't facing, is that they have a government that will actually respond to people's needs and address said issues, rather than let them fester.

i almost reposted this, had to come laugh at

China has long strived to close the deficit [of ideas], tossing out notions like “community of shared destiny” or “win-win cooperation,” but so far, nothing has caught on.

huh, China keeps trying to do "win-win cooperation" with us but it just isn't catching on. no worries, if we don't cooperate with them it's not like we will share their destiny as common residents and dependents within the same biosphere. I am "a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub, and the author of Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World and The Miracle: The Epic Story of Asia’s Quest for Wealth." please give me my check