Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "How could CHINA BLACKMAIL THE WEST? (And score points in the TECHNOLOGY WAR) - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1. China is facing a downward spiral of aging, household debt, soil pollution, emptied seas, and endemic corruption. If anything it's the West that can sit back and wait for China to peak in the next couple decades.
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  2. The Mountain Pass Mine in CA recently reopened after renovations that fixed its earlier pollution issues, and within two years went from 0 to 15% of the world's output. Next year its refinery should be fully operational, cutting China out of the loop for ore processing and giving the world a new cleaner alternative for rare earth elements.
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  3. Yet China isn't exactly building any soft power of its own, they lack a popular modern culture and it's only getting worse with increasingly vain, childish, censored media products -- India, Egypt, and even Nigeria attract a wider reach than the Mainland. The way they're going there won't be popular calls to support the PRC once it goes over the looming peak into the self-made downward spiral of aging, household debt, pollution, and corruption in the next few decades.
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