What you most likely haven’t heard is that across a wide range of economic, technological, and military indicators, the United States is actually, in the words of political scientist Michael Beckley, “wealthier, more innovative, and more militarily powerful compared to China than it was in 1991.” As Beckley explains in a recent article in International Security, China’s growth in per capita income, value added in high technology, and military spending is impressive primarily because China is starting from such a low base. That the United States has continued to grow across all of these dimensions is making it exceedingly difficult for China to catch up. Beckley thus concludes that China is “rising in place.” That is, while China is improving its economic and military position in absolute terms, it is stagnating relative to America, even in an era of sluggish U.S. growth.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/299334/lethargic-dragon-reihan-salam#
All of the fuss about China - is it deliberately done to confuse and frighten? To justify the US's defense of Taiwan? Or are so many folks really that confused? It's never been a concern to me, because we know centralized control isn't effective in the long term. Their highly vaunted 100 year plan? It was a complete waste of time, there's no plan of any significance that can anticipate that amount of change. The point of our Republic is that it shouldn't have to rely upon the wisdom of politicians in order to succeed. There's does, which is why they are no threat.
Further, this section highlights our economic schizophrenia:
This doesn’t change the fact that China’s economic rise since the late 1970s has been impressive. Hundreds of millions of Chinese have been lifted from poverty over the last three decades, and the country’s teeming coastal cities have emerged as the workshop of the world.
Right, so we want folks to have liberty, more liberty, so they can be productive and raise themselves out of poverty. But we don't want folks to have liberty and be more productive because in so doing they increase their "carbon footprint." So we take money at gunpoint from our citizenry and give it to foreign government as aid. It does little good, perhaps harms the populace, but we get to call it aid so we can feel good. Because we are good people and don't want all those poor starving Chinese and Indians to have it so bad. Well, kind of we do.
WTF. Let them have all the liberty they can get and be done with it.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/299334/lethargic-dragon-reihan-salam#
All of the fuss about China - is it deliberately done to confuse and frighten? To justify the US's defense of Taiwan? Or are so many folks really that confused? It's never been a concern to me, because we know centralized control isn't effective in the long term. Their highly vaunted 100 year plan? It was a complete waste of time, there's no plan of any significance that can anticipate that amount of change. The point of our Republic is that it shouldn't have to rely upon the wisdom of politicians in order to succeed. There's does, which is why they are no threat.
Further, this section highlights our economic schizophrenia:
This doesn’t change the fact that China’s economic rise since the late 1970s has been impressive. Hundreds of millions of Chinese have been lifted from poverty over the last three decades, and the country’s teeming coastal cities have emerged as the workshop of the world.
Right, so we want folks to have liberty, more liberty, so they can be productive and raise themselves out of poverty. But we don't want folks to have liberty and be more productive because in so doing they increase their "carbon footprint." So we take money at gunpoint from our citizenry and give it to foreign government as aid. It does little good, perhaps harms the populace, but we get to call it aid so we can feel good. Because we are good people and don't want all those poor starving Chinese and Indians to have it so bad. Well, kind of we do.
WTF. Let them have all the liberty they can get and be done with it.
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