However, it has neglected the fact that the trade war it wages with the world could backfire.
Recently, after twelve years away, I returned for a couple of weeks to Chungdu and Chong Quing, which I found amazing. American patriots of the lightly read but growly sort will bristle at the thought that the Chinese may have political and economic systems superior to ours, but, well, China rises while the US flounders. They must be doing something right.
In terms of economic systems, the Chinese are clearly superior. China runs a large economic surplus, allowing it to invest heavily in infrastructure and in resources abroad. America runs a large deficit. China invests in China, America in the military. China's infrastructure is new, of high quality, and growing. America's slowly deteriorates. China has an adult government that gets things done. America has an essentially absentee Congress and a kaleidoscopically shifting cast of pathologically aggressive curiosities in the White House.
Comment: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
History is replete with the rise and fall of civilizations who did not learn from the mistakes of the past. For those willing to look at all of the data, all of the signs noted in the article, along with many others, such as erratic weather, plagues and mass hysteria. accompany the great shifts on our planet.
See also:
- Caesar's Rome and today
- Ancient Rome's decline and today's United States - some eerie similarities
- 536 AD: Plague, famine, drought, cold, and a mysterious fog that lasted 18 months
- Prehistoric cave art study reveals ancient people had complex knowledge of astronomy and were tracking catastrophic meteor showers
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