Sort by controversial for the real white boy salt.
China is missing a few ingredients to truly dominate the global economy...
Confidence in the financial reporting in the US. The audit industry is pretty strong and good at identifying issues within publically traded companies.
:michael-laugh: Yeah, 2008 really demonstrated that.
Hostile attitude to other global players. China simply deals with any international opposition with immediate threats and hostility. The US only does this 10% of the time.
:michael-laugh: :che-laugh: :tito-laugh: That must be why China has missiles and military bases in over 200 countries, is in a state of permanent war, is constantly overthrowing other countries, bombs much of the world indiscriminately without declaring war, imposes brutal sanctions and trade wars even against its allies, and threatens potential conflict if you dare not to by your COVID vaccines from them. Oh wait...
Man, the shit Americans believe about themselves is wild.
Hostile attitude to other global players. China simply deals with any international opposition with immediate threats and hostility. The US only does this 10% of the time.
I refuse to believe they genuinely think that. No way.
/r/geopolitics is an incredible sub man. Literally "what if people whose whole knowledge of geopolitics was from propaganda tried to discuss geopolitics"
I remember some years ago they were convinced that that the Russians and/or the Chinese were running influence ops there to "sway public opinion".
I asked why the fuck anyone would spend money trying to influence a small sub of wannabe analysts and someone insisted that there were big names posting under pseudonyms.
Yeah, and I'm sure /r/legaladvice is full of real qualified lawyers keeping their identities hidden.
Never seen a sub so far up its own ass.
Propaganda is when reality challenges the paper thin understanding of the world you learned in high school
The actual lawyers use bestoflegaladvice to laugh at some of the advice given.
my money is on China. They're obviously already geared to put down social unrest and distribute the costs of crises somewhat evenly, the only issue is that they're so corrupt. The USA has more honest bureaucrats but they can't get anything done
:michael-laugh: The level of self-delusion is astonishing.
They’re obviously already geared to put down social unrest and distribute the costs of crises somewhat evenly, the only issue is that they’re so corrupt.
I have seen smaller projections at cinemas.
I think the US would literally find a reason to spark up military conflict before they would allow the dollar to fall and China to take the seat as economic powerhouse of the world.
I think that would be better for global stability in the long run.
Starting WW3 in the name of 'global stability'.
I suppose an irradiated wasteland devoid of all life is technically "stable" in one sense of the word.
banned my account their recently R/geopolitics is pure americana cope... Its an amazing Sub.. Full of americans analysing that america is great , europe will fail soon and China will collapse any minute now !
Any minute now ! , just wait a Minute ! China gona collapse ! Its the only conclusion my worldview allows,....China pls collapse ...okay...
oh yes thats the stuff , any minute now ! any minute!
No offense intended for my comrades who enjoy Live Action Role-Playing.
Being creative outdoors with your friends is a way better hobby than creating consent online for fun.
I remember being excited when I found the sub at first because my nerdy ass loves discussing this shit. Then I read a few threads and it’s all pro-US bullshit
It used to be okay, then the mods started banning everyone that violates the agenda
Bonus: This thread is full of Americans getting mega salty because someone dared to use the decline of the British Empire as an allegory for America.
https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/mfghjh/what_is_the_world_going_to_be_like_when_chinas/gsnehfw
Lol so much Sinophobia. Muh CCP is just like Tang Dynasty because asian people can only be ruled by military clique unlike us noble Whyte Pepol
You can't compare the two situations. Post-WW2, the UK 'handed over the baton' of superpower status to a relatively friendly ally. The UK's prime minister at the time was half-American. The dollar was already the world's reserve currency, and had been for several decades.
The US has no incentive to give up superpower status, unlike the UK post-WW2. Why would the UK spend billions to protect shipping routes where transactions were mostly carried out in dollars, for example? Also bear in mind that a fair chunk of the UK's power came from people who did not consider themselves British, and in many cases did not want their country to be run by us. Why would we, or they, want us to spend money to keep them as part of the Empire? (By 'us' I'm referring to the British people as opposed to some of the wealthy businessmen who profited greatly from the Empire)
None of these factors exist for the USA in 2021.
Actual brainworms. Love to live in a world where superpowers voluntarily give their power away to rival empires, especially ones which you've gone to war with over their independence lmfao
All the imperialists in there believing that "the chinese middle class" is going to activate anyday now and demand capitalism, western culture and "freedom" are so funny. They said the same crap about the Arab Spring and are saying the same about Russia. Those countries who are currently watching our perfect system destroy our own middle class and grind them back into Uber-serfs are going to really want what we have.
IIRC China's food security is contentious with global warming, since their arable land also gets encroached on by expanding desert.
Global warming specifically targeting China. Nature is inherently Sinophobic? We're in shambles
It is actually a concern, rice can be double cropped (you can get two harvests a year) but due to changes in the climate arable area where double cropping can happen is shrinking. Like, China is aware of this unlike most western leaders and your average chud apparently.
China is actually doing something about this though, the 13th 5 Year Plan included a bunch of provisions for basic research and especially research in agriculture. I can't think of what the west is doing because planning isn't centralized/in public control... I guess Monsanto or some big businesses have something approaching a plan. I heard a bunch of ag companies are trying to get more northerly latitudes in Alberta and Saskatchewan (Canada) to start planting corn because of a combination of a potentially longer growing season and some GMO corn that doesn't need as long to grow. But I can't think of anything they're doing to try and handle the, now yearly, extremely wet spring that prevents planting and the wet/snow fall that prevent harvesting.
So summarizing the arguments there, China's economy rising is actually fake, and it isn't rising, but the rising is unsustainable, and that's because there's a growing middle class that's going to demand change, although they don't really have a middle class, and it doesn't spend money on consumer goods, but it will, which will undo the CCP who are corrupt and do not enjoy popular support.
Oh no! They have somehow combined all of the contradictory arguments Gordan Chang has made over 20 years into one super take. The resulting temporal and logical paradox will surely destroy the planet.
Literally just invert all the bullshit in that paragraph and you get the actual material conditions in the prc lmao
