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But why was their technology superior?
This is the question!
Was it capitalism- yes perhaps to some extent- but also the deeper culture of questioning and examining things which developed in the Protestant European nations.
To have strong technology you need a strong culture where individuals grow up more in an environment of love than fear. Where learning is valued and promoted and where questioning established wisdom allowed.
Where progress is celebrated and welcomed by citizens- where there is a sense of pride and commitment to the nation and its culture.
Where the productive economy is internationally competitive and can build the things your innovators design at an internationally competitive price.
Today China has just that.
Children excitedly study engineering and science - 80% of the politburo are engineers.
When a new port facility or bridge or power plant is built the people of the region celebrate and rejoice another step has been taken toward advancing their collective wealth creation capacity. Such unity of purpose and drive is almost gone for western cultures where most citizens are mired in introspective self analysis and political apathy and a feeling of helplessness because so much has been outsourced- to China!
China leads in most of the fundamental drivers of the post industrial economy.
Power generation, energy efficiency, EVs, PVs, drones, nanotech, rare earths, logistics, ship building, ports, airports, robotics, biotech, construction, engineering, medicine and across the board research and development.
The west today is a bloated self entitled and increasingly divided and dysfunctional culture and economy with no united and cohesive sense of values and purpose - mired in debt and crumbling infrastructure because its politics have been captured by sly corporate lobbyists who do not give a damn about the broader strategy but only serve their short sighted rentseeking profit motive...ie crony capitalism...and citizens who know they have been screwed but do not know how to fix it.
Their first concern also their own self interest- with the war in middle east they worry about the price of gas without bothering to understand The Greater Israel Project and how their leaders (and media) have been captured by extremist Zionist war criminals and usurers.
The dominant incentives and culture is to speculate on non productiove assets using debt leverage- not to produce things that can be exported and sold at a profit thereby enriching the nation- no because that is now almost impossible- Elon Musk is an exception to an otherwise very tragic overall dynamic of non productive self indulgent debt fueled consumerism.
China has a government that knows it must succeed or it will face execution by the masses.
There are no sham elections where both candidates are owned by Goldman Sachs and Chevron.
There are no Zionist bankers holding Xis arm behind his back.
That is self determination.
Enabling and building technological and manufacturing dominance.
That is empire building.
Today China has just that.
No they don't. They have the same system as the IRGC. There is no self-determination. It's 100% do what the government said because it said so. Taiwan doesn't want your system. It's trash.
China has a government that knows it must succeed or it will face execution by the masses.
Yeah and it failed. It has to go.
Taiwanese look across at China and see much greater wealth creation and opportunity than they experience in their Taiwan US empire tribute state slavery.
They see Trump abandoning them- reshoring the microchip production and Trump betraying their trust and loyalty, just like all other US tribute states who want nothing to do with the rogue state global bully and complicity to Greater Israel war crimes that USA has become.
Most people want peaceful trade, development and prosperity and China now appears to offer that much more than USA does.
Trump is not abandoning Taiwan. The whole point of blockading Iran is to prepare for a preemptive full-scale invasion of the PRC so the question is resolved by the end of his term.
You can get a lot of people to give a positive opinion about "China" on a survey. Everyone loves China. That's not the issue. The question is how many people are willing to die for the communist party, and I'll bet that demographic represents less than half the world's military spending.
Boycott Bitcoin if you don't want to fund USA's war crimes.
Trump is not abandoning Taiwan.
Hmmm... Lets see shall we - in 14 days when Trump goes to beg Xi for refined rare earths...and Trump has still failed to open the Strait of Hormuz..and USA has no Interceptors left.
Xi will say 'Sorry loser, can't help you...you lost your Iran war now stop being a puppet to Zionist war criminals.'
If Trump is not abandoning Taiwan why is he desperately reshoring chip production?
Chinese tradition of 'eating bitter' is unknown to the modern decadent westerner.
Bitcoin is my way of avoiding Zionist usury...works just fine for me.
Sadly USA is owned by the Zionist Greater Israel Extremists who own the Fed Res.
If Trump is not abandoning Taiwan why is he desperately reshoring chip production?
You think producing chips in the US is in preparation for not importing them from Taiwan? You don't understand this country at all. It's a war. Chips are a weapon. Of course we're going to build as many chips as humanly possible.
Chinese tradition of 'eating bitter' is unknown to the modern decadent westerner.
You talk about the US getting poorer. There's only two reasons: looters and moochers. Half the country are pro-PRC pro-socialism welfare cheats and fraudsters. Same for "Western" "allies." And of course there's the PRC itself, which is the whole reason we have to fund a military. So our entire tax base is spent on dealing with you people. We tolerate it because we don't want to kill you, but you're so insufferable and it's gotten so expensive that we can't deal with it anymore. We've been eating 苦. Our 苦 looks like luxury to you because you have no idea what real capitalism looks like. And now that the pro-PRC parties have lost three elections in a row we have a mandate to get rid of you.
Remember when Trump said he would sort out Russia-Ukraine in 24 hours?
China is more determined than late empire USA.
So is Iran.
And Russia.
As CB correctly points out the west is chokka with parasitic entitled looters and moochers.
The west is not united or determined but a divided and decadent shadow of ts former self.
Yes it is tragic, but we have to deal with reality.
It will not be fixed by some delusional MAGA sloganeering TACO despot who is owned by Greater Israel Zionists.
Bitcoin is my way of avoiding Zionist usury...works just fine for me.
And yeah, of course trading with the US is working out for you.
Bitcoin is as Western as it gets. It was invented by a Brit, adopted by Americans as a conspiracy to overthrow the governmemt, and coopted by the Trump administration as a weapon against communism. If you were serious about collectivism you would donate your wealth to the PRC by holding their equities or their currency, instead of the currency they banned, but everyone submits to capitalism when it's their own life at stake.
You chronically exaggerate and thus misrepresent my stance.
I am a neutral observer in the power struggle between US and China.
Love free enterprise but also understand that governments play a crucial role in determining the wealth and security of nations.
Rentseeking Zionist bankers have captured the wests governments and undermined our democracies.
China is free of that disease and has won the trade war in part because of it.
Yes Bitcoin epitomizes the individualism and values of late empire western civilisation and looked like a healthy antidote to the parasitic Zionist bankers but Bitcoin is not a cure all and has anyway been largely captured and contained by the Zionist usurers and corporate lobbyists who own Trump and the west.
The British Empire lost global monetary hegemony when the Zionist bankers refused to support its Suez Canal recapture efforts.
The Zionist bankers can see that US empire is near its end and so now want to build their own regional Greater Israel hegemony and security as China rises and refuses to be their puppet.
Bitcoin may provide some limited insulation from this developing transition but it does not change the overall dynamics.
I am a neutral observer in the power struggle between US and China.
You're not neutral. Buying Bitcoin means you're on our side. You're betting money on the American Revolution. You're invested in the separation of economy and state.
Love free enterprise but also understand that governments play a crucial role in determining the wealth and security of nations.
They play a role in destroying it. The PRC's government crippled the country's economy and positioned the mainland to have its destiny carved up and hollowed out by foreign powers and a minority who recognized that the nation and the state are two separate things. The more wealth the state takes, the less wealth is owned by the nation. The communists did not provide security or prosperity. Not sure why you believe them.
Bitcoin may provide some limited insulation from this developing transition but it does not change the overall dynamics.
It might not have, were it not for the PRC's rejection of Bitcoin and the USA's embrace of it. Again, the US plus MSTR is about 5 times as much BTC as is owned by the PRC. Unless they come to their senses soon, which it doesn't look like they will, the new monetary order will be dominated by the US.
Bitcoin is the money. The petroyuan isn't happening.
The answer is capitalism, not imperialism.
If Trump’s naval mission ‘only half-thought out’, it could lead to ‘disaster’
We have more from Harlan Ullman at the Killowen Group.
The former US naval officer said the risks of Trump’s Project Freedom are significant and could lead to dangerous escalation if Iran chooses to resist it.
“Iran has huge amounts of drones and small craft that could make this very, very difficult,” Ullman told Al Jazeera. “I would hate to see a confrontation where an American warship is hit, because then the Americans will have no other option except to retaliate.”
He expressed hope that Trump’s announcement marked a diplomatic “breakthrough” made in coordination with Iran and the mediators in the talks between the two countries. “I hope the Pakistanis, the Omanis, or the Saudis have been instrumental in some kind of pre-negotiation to allow this to happen,” he said.
Ullman said success ultimately requires diplomacy. “The only solution to this crisis is a reopening of the strait, followed by a long diplomatic negotiation with Iran to deal with its nuclear ambitions. If this mission is a well-considered first step, well done to the Trump administration. But if it has only been half-thought out and leads to escalation, it could be a disaster.”
He added, “Negotiation, not bombardment, is the only way this will be solved without disrupting the international economic order.”
But why was their technology superior? The answer is capitalism, not imperialism. Capitalism came first, then imperialism. Not recognizing this makes you a cargo cult. You're doomed.
Hence you weren't able to stop this visit from happening. He'll be visiting D.C. soon enough.