I really admire what China has accomplished. There’s definitely room to debate some of their decisions, but I suspect that if the USSR had managed to make the US economy completely reliant on it for manufacturing, it would still exist today. The EU economies are in the shitter and the US is barely staying afloat even with increasingly brazen imperialist theft, not to mention how the US is running out of munitions trying to supply the first “real” war it’s seen in decades and it hasn’t even deployed its own military (yet?).
I used to be looking forward to the future where China would completely overtake the US as the dominant world power, but it really looks like that already happened years ago and the decrepit NATO empires just haven’t figured it out yet.
I think so as well, the problem was that US saw USSR as an ideological threat from the very start so there was no possibility of this sort of cooperation. The main reason US decided to normalize relations with China was to try and prevent China from having good relations with the Soviets. So, perhaps this is the only way things could’ve worked out.
In the end, US made a huge miscalculation in underestimating China, and completely missed China outpacing them in every regard while being drunk on having defeated USSR which they saw as the only serious threat to their global hegemony.
I really admire what China has accomplished. There’s definitely room to debate some of their decisions, but I suspect that if the USSR had managed to make the US economy completely reliant on it for manufacturing, it would still exist today. The EU economies are in the shitter and the US is barely staying afloat even with increasingly brazen imperialist theft, not to mention how the US is running out of munitions trying to supply the first “real” war it’s seen in decades and it hasn’t even deployed its own military (yet?).
I used to be looking forward to the future where China would completely overtake the US as the dominant world power, but it really looks like that already happened years ago and the decrepit NATO empires just haven’t figured it out yet.
I think so as well, the problem was that US saw USSR as an ideological threat from the very start so there was no possibility of this sort of cooperation. The main reason US decided to normalize relations with China was to try and prevent China from having good relations with the Soviets. So, perhaps this is the only way things could’ve worked out.
In the end, US made a huge miscalculation in underestimating China, and completely missed China outpacing them in every regard while being drunk on having defeated USSR which they saw as the only serious threat to their global hegemony.