Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "Why won't China Surpass the United States? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1. I suspect it was a secret plot by the Americans to weaken them long term by playing on their fears of overpopulation, fears that were so prevalent during the 1970's and 80's and the Chinese fell for it hook, line and sinker. Anthropogenic climate change is now the new fear.
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  2. If the Chinese government can force its people not to have children, I'm sure it can just as easily force them to have children. Or find some technological solution to the problem – robots, automation, transhumanism, artificial wombs, etc.
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  3. Much of the GDP of the US is due to money laundering and tax evasion schemes inflating the figures, as well as by counting as high value a fiat currency of an essentially bankrupt state which would have been reduced to junk bond status long ago if wasn't for the system being so corrupt and rigged, resting precariously upon a phantom economy mainly made up of the FIRE and military‐industrial sectors rather than productive manufacturing and the building of infrastructure.
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  4. What makes you think you'll ever get close enough for them to even need to deploy their infantry against you. Missiles and drones and autonomous AI will be what the next war is likely to be fought with.
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  5.  @ChiRedWhiteBlue  Spanish, French and German are the languages to look out for. 1. Spanish (and possibly Portuguese) because of the growth of Latin America in the future. 2. French because of its widespread use in francophone Africa, another place of future growth. 3. German because it's currently the powerhouse of Europe and likely to become even more powerful as time goes by (along with France as the two main drivers of the EU).
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  6. It's been like that for millenia. And it seems to have worked well because China's still around. The Anglo‐American system on the other hand... a few decades, a century or two?
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  7.  @Mark_Chandler  Owed to themselves. That they can literally write off. A state bank can never go bankrupt in the way a private bank can.
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  8. The threat of a good example. How can the neocons and the neolibs convince the rest of the world of the end of history when China keeps confounding them.
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  9.  @snslifestyleorg  Yes, that might be a possible optimum. Likewise for India. But what makes you think it would prevent the middle income trap?
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  10. Touché.
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