Look at SNs items- nearly all are about derivatives of the tertiary sectors financialisation - AI and finance. There is almost zero talk of the production of actual goods, unless they are serving financialisation like a Bitcoin wallet! And that Bitcojn wallets actual hardware was probably produced in China. China now has a fucking massive lead in engineering. In the skills of Chinese technicians who have gained the ability to design and build everything from a toothbrush to a aircraft carrier. Meanwhile the west has lost its ability to build almost everything from toothbrushes to aircraft carriers. There seems to be a pervasive blindness to this massive shift in the capability of the west to produce things and the dire strategic consequences that have resulted. China now has the west over a barrel in the supply of almost all manufactured goods and particularly in some important strategic materials like rare earths, robotics, PVs and EVs in fact the entire range of high tech materials and products needed to be competitive in the modern era. The only area where the west retains a marginal advantage is in the legacy financial system where it still dominates global institutions and protocols like the IMF. World Bank, BIS, SWIFT etc. But China is now positioned to also challenge the wests legacy institutional and protocol hegemony and is building alternative platforms, institutions and protocols. Increasingly trade with China is settled outside of the USD/SWIFT hegemony- instead enabled via Chinas new alternative protocols like mBridge and CIPS. Raising this topic has resulted in attacks on me calling me a CCP bot and other untrue and diversionary evasions of the facts and issues raised. I have come to believe that people in the west are truly afraid and in denial of the trends and do not want to confront them - that may work ok for a while until it doesn't. How is raising these issues a thing that a Chinese propagandist would do? it is not- it is because I am born and bred in the west and far more comfortable with its cultural biases and advantages than China- but I also recognise the west has nothing like a clean record in its gaining of and maintenance of global hegemony and that in the case of China the west imposed its will and forced itself on China during the Opium Wars in a manner that most westerners seem either ignorant of or desperate to dismiss. I suggest it is important that we understand China and its history as it is now in a position where it is seeking and may achieve what the west has historically achieved and enjoyed- global hegemony and dominance over all other cultures. To ignore this threat is exactly what a CCP bot would might westerners to do.