I agree I think a title like that would’ve appealed to a broader audience and underscored the concerns addressed in the article. First time I’m hearing twitterati and I don’t hate it. The economist may be concerned primarily with us hegemony but it’s streets ahead of the dolts of the twittersphere.
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So all countries which are important in Asia are anti China?
Gain wrote excellent comments.
America is in decline domestically, their living standard has not been improved. Internationally USA is powerful as have ever been.
Talibans didn’t kill an american solder for whole year. Take a look how many casualties
rebels have vs american solders in the middle east. It’s like 1:50.
USA called TSM in Hsinchu and gave order stop selling chips to Huawei. Yes sir. And Huawei revenues are down 35% this year, while TSM is up 20%. Most of American tech stocks are all time up. Their revenues are up. Alibaba stock is down 50% from peak.
Australians will buy nuclear submarines, Japananese openly saying they will defend Taiwan in war. Westerners left China, no one want to go living there, while billions want to settle down in the West.
Western vaccines work, Sputnik works, it seems Chinese vaccines are less efficient?
Meanwhile all strength China can catapult is tariffs on soybean and export ban on masks.
Numbers of GDP are just numbers. Real power is money (financial dominance of dollar), alliance among countries. No one trust China, not even own citizens.
America had own struggles before like civil rights movement, Vietnam war. But always went forward.
I really hope China doesn’t go backward. World doesn’t want to be lead, ruled by Chinese communists and sooner they acknowledge, the better. China shouldn’t become like West, they should move towards democracy with Chinese character. Like Taiwan has done. Only with such system China can overcome mighty America
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Japan and Taiwan ?
A question answered with a question?
No, trying to clarify what he is referring to
Check out this list, I was curious to see which are the world’s largest corporations , and behold Taiwan is in the list.
Nuts how many are US Healthcare companies.
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Yeah , I noticed that too. An increasingly older population.
How does America expect to remain strong with their domestic population suffering?
Russia is this way, and look how they ended up.
As soon as people realized that America is no longer the “free country” that they keep saying they are, they will jump ship.
America’s power seems to be in their military, corporations, while its people struggle to pay for healthcare that many other countries never struggle to pay. While real wages have been stagnant for who knows how long. Before long there is going to be civil war. Will America use their powerful military to quell their rebellion? Or will they fight a forever war at home?
Only a matter of time before a populist leader rises up to America’s detriment (like Trump).
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Where is all of these Americans that are suffering?? Based off my daily discussions with Americans across the States and of varying political viewpoints, they seem to be doing pretty damn good right now.
If you ask a bunch of affluent families how well they are doing of course they will say it’s all good.
Plus it’s culturally unacceptable in America to appear weak, and that means to hide all their problems.
But the stats don’t lie. Wages have been getting lower whereas back in the day minimum wage was enough to buy you a house, car, and pay for college. Now you could barely pay for a house on that wage. So if all the people you know have actual careers, and not just minimum wage jobs, of course they’re doing pretty damn good. Also are any of them sick in any way? How much are they paying for medical treatments?
Plus most jobs in the US are inaccessible by public transportation, that means the wage they pay you isn’t going to cut it if you have to buy a car and all of its associated cost too. Unless you want to live in your car.
The infrastructure bill was a good start. People tend to underestimate how effective throwing money at shit actually is. The states will have world class roads very soon.
Wages will go up soon as well I reckon. Just my gut feeling no particular reason. I just think decoupling will do wonders for the west.
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It’s already happening and while it has been ostensibly sold as a war on right wing terror, this will put anyone who dissents from the official ministry of truth narratives in the sights of the very powerful symbiotic relationship between Washington and big tech for censorship and cancellation.
Glen Greenwald discusses a protest for prisoners of Jan 6th ( about 200 turned up, more journalists than protestors) and the many over hyped non events as it relates to the new war on terror, at home.
People pay fuel tax at the pump that is supposed to go towards repairing and maintaining roads. The fact that they have to take out extra budget items to do this shows shit is broken.
Sure they can spend money and get everything fixed up but at the usual American efficiency I wonder how many years it will take. Then they will likely do nothing for decades after.
In Taiwan they repave roads overnight, in the US it takes several weeks, if not longer. I’ve seen highways that have been under construction since 2000, and still under construction today, in Texas.
Every tenth American is a millionaire. Usually I heard from my friends, mostly software programmers, how taxes are lower comparing to Germany and whole vibe is better, more business friendly.
They say healthcare is not that terrible but need to understand how to deal with insurance companies.
On negativity often is mention public transportation. How dangerous is to use, causes of violent, pushy people on it. Public transportation is run down and old. They say good quality groceries are more expensive than those in Germany. Houses bigger, but build with worse material.
It’s something Americans can work on. Maybe people don’t travel enough around the world, to see shortcomings of domestic society
Sure, but there are still a sizable majority of Americans who lives on minimum wage and they’re the ones that must rely on public transport or live in crappy communities. Programmers and tech guys do well no matter where they live, even if they live in shithole countries.
They can always share apartment and car rides to work. I did that in my teenage years too.
It’s not like an average German has high savings. Most live from paycheck to paycheck. There is a job security, and national health care. We pay high taxes, is hard to save a lot. And almost impossible to start a new business.
Sharing apartments don’t always happen, especially when you move to a new city, and not know anyone there. There are “apartment share” type places where you rent by the room, but I did that, and it sucked sometimes because guys are noisy. Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck on useless junk too. Except Americans don’t get job security.
Starting a business is hard in America too, depends on what kind though. There’s just a lot more rule that are enforced. Taiwan has rules but nobody enforce them, especially tax laws.
Needing the US for defense is the bottom line. If the time comes where countries no longer believe the USA has the ability or the desire to defend them they will cosy up to China.