Well, with PR China the US is facing a competitor on all fronts for the first time since the start of the postwar era.noddy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 2:15 amwow, layers of turdlets all composting away.Miss_Faucie_Fishtits wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 5:59 pm Well, let's put this really rich spengler interview here:
https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/10/artic ... -spengler/
Read the sweet smelling lavender-storm in the disqus comments. It's hilarious..............
Spenglers rants on China are a tad orientalist nonsense, in his usual provocative manner of mixing some ideas with crass stereotypes.
the rants in the comment section they triggered, are gold.
Still, I think his primary idea wasnt that provocative, the Chinese want the same setup the Americans currently have, collecting rent from the rest of the world for providing the market system.
debatable how much the rest of the world trusts them for such a thing, then again, its not like America is maintaining particularly high fiscal standards anymore either.
On the flipside, its not like they can do worse than the west did in Africa, South America particularly, tho betting the future on those guys getting their lavender together, seems at this stage, a brave move.
Soviet Russia was a military competitor and an ideological competitor in the Turd World, er, Third World and in the halls of academia, mostly the humanities, in the West, but was never an economic competitor.
Japan was an economic competitor before the bubble burst, but never a military or ideological competitor.
The recent kowtowing by Western corporations and institutions to PR China sensibilities is instructive.
On the other hand, Pooh for Life Xi Jinping is 66. Young by current American standards, but he too is not forever. Poohs for Life have a history of not grooming a successor leading to an often ruinous power struggle after their demise. One wonders what will happen in China after he is gone.
Anyways, I would argue that one intangible that is key for future success is confidence, especially confidence in the future.
Best expressed by another [dead] white guy.
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The self-flagellation currently in vogue among the chattering classes of the West seems to me to be the opposite of energy and confidence.