>>58061
everyone who actually goes to China realizes it is a near peer competitor. They are not going to fail like many other ex-colonial nations which were entirely dependent on western aid, they are a unique civilization-as-a-nation context which has very deep roots and a very talented population. Asians in the west do very well, they are generally smart and driven. If Chinese development is allowed to trend and they bypass the current state of sweatshop economics, they will be a peer rival in every way if not more.
>China is doing genetics research with crispr
>China is pursuing population quality policies selecting for intelligence
>China has a hybrid state socialist and capitalist system which epitomizes the best of keynes but isn't wasted on the welfare state
>China has historically done very well, and was one of the great powers in history
Americans have to realize that they have recovered from their century of humiliation and won't collapse for another 150 years minimum