Its becoming clear that China is on track to match or overtake the USA as a global superpower. Since like half of our economy is based on Chinese imports - is there even anything the bourgeoisie / military / intelligence agencies can do about it? Do you think we're going to move more towards conflict or is China going to pimp slap us and tell us to know our role or they won't make any iphones for us or whatever.

Real conflict seems very unlikely but there are psychos like John Bolton who will refuse to accept that USA isn't numba 1 anymore.

  • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Here's my educated guess:

    I know China has plans to become more economically independent, and with its increasing economic power and workers' increasing wages, I think American capitalists will start to see profits from Chinese investments decline. Being less able to exploit Chinese workers, and given China's increasing power, I think their status as a threat to American hegemony will increase and so will US hostility towards them. Outright war is very, very unlikely any time soon, but other forms of aggression will escalate. Also more racism.

    Our capitalists are still too bound up in the Chinese economy to really want them gone, but that is steadily changing, hence the greatly increased hostility over the last few years, although I think drastic changes are still a decent way off. I've heard that a lot of investors are looking more towards Vietnam these days.