Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Why China Sucks at Soft Power — China's Reckoning (Part 4)" video.

@spartanparty3894 Although it'd be interesting to see how Chinese builds hold up after a century of use like America's miraculously has so far on marginal maintenance. There's already news of brand new BRI builds collapsing within months of opening, and sold-out new apartments getting condemned if not collapsing in China isn't unheard of either.
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There's a reason STEM people tend to fail in politics and even regular management: they're too tunnel-visioned to listen or care about what actually motivates people.
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It helps that the USSR was openly goading to fight with military force, whereas China is still deciding if being kinetically threatening is the best way to defend its interests with the least amount of return damage.
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Critics have been saying the US is on the "verge of collapse" since 1812, various Panics, the Civil War, the anarcho-communist insurrection, the Great Depression, and the assassination-a-month Civil Rights Movement; the current "woke"/MAGA battle is tame by comparison. America will likely find its way towards a "more perfect Union" and further harmonize with its ideal of "liberty and justice for all" just like it did every previous time, though like Churchill supposedly said it may be "only after they have tried everything else".
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@spartanparty3894 Right. If anything America's strength comes from the constant (and occasionally violent) competition of ideas on how to develop a "more perfect Union". Even the violence over the path forward declines between successive revolutions: the Civil War, the Gilded Age industrial labor movements, the Civil Rights Movement, and arguably today's "wokeness". China's strategy seems to direct itself towards becoming like china -- hard and impressive, but ultimately brittle. The way they're heading, younger Millennials and Gen Z approaching their retirement might get to witness China shattering from self-made aging, household debt, soil pollution, and official corruption 🐢🐇
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Likely Communist China will continue to degrade as the Party continues its strategy of try-hardisms, because it can't fathom the idea of relaxing its grip and trusting its people... whose moral compass they themselves destroyed in "revolutionary thought". Their narrowing tolerance for an acceptable mindset leaves them bewildered as to why the constant messaging to 'love the Party' and '(PR)China deserves respect' still leaves so many of its subjects to "lie flat" if not expatriate their wealth and family at the first opportunity.
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