Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "Is Xi's China the new Soviets?" video.

@mcorte2224 Most of the issues you are referring to are far worse in China, barring "ethnic replacement" which isn't even an issue to begin with. Not that your types care about logic or anything.
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@choudharya1234 He literally talked about Europe's general decline too, genius.
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The US doesn't really hope for that, it just deals with reality. And the reality is that China's economic growth is slowing incredibly despite the fact that it has yet to reach the high-income state that it should. Its in a middle-income trap.
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@Seicks Except none of you guys managed to actually find an issue with their point, you're just complaining that they're biased is all. The proof is easy to see when China's GDP growth continues to fall despite not yet being a high-income nation yet.
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@anjurkrishnan7831 EU is far more stagnant than the US, and China is becoming stagnant despite being low-income nation. So your claim and the OP's claim are both copium lol
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@ivanchernenko9879 It wasn't before Trump, it might not be after him either. But he will likely make things worse by alienating US allies unnecessarily.
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@boiscooka232 Trump puts tariffs on everyone, genius.
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@lynnjohnny01 Slightly higher than the US when it should still be WAY higher than the US. Did you even watch the video? China's growth should not be that low when its still a low-income nation, it should only reach that low when its a high-income nation.
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@Seicks Where in the world did you get 720% when looking at total debt-to-gdp? Did you make that up just to win an internet argument?
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@phillip76 Except the government is big business and the MIC combined, all while silencing opposition voices. That's a recipe for making bad policy, as we see with their collapsing GDP growth. Be honest with your copium at least. Also, they never claimed that China was collapsing, just that its slowing down and will become stagnant.
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@NightridingDoom If trading goods is sl a ve ry? Then yes. But only people are nuts can claim that.
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@NightridingDoom Money is just the means we use to trade goods. They are effectively one and the same by default. If we didn't have that, then we'd just use a different medium or barter.
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There is a balance to this sort of thing, and China is at the deep end and hurting itself while doing so. The issue is that there are no laws besides; obey the CCP. And that massively hurts investment opportunities. But I wouldn't expect you to understand the concept of fair laws.
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@pawegraczyk6050 Economy is important to the average person, and if the average person loses their job because of deflation, then that is bad.
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@sqwong3947 They made the point that China should NOT be slowing down at this stage, since it still has yet to reach the high GDP per capita that high-income nations should reach before slowing down. So there are structural issues that need to be ironed out, but just aren't due to the nature of the CCP.
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@sqwong3947 Ugh. He does this with every video, and nobody complains. He does it with China, and netizens are everywhere about it. Why do you want special treatment? You're complaining about his hook to the video, for goodness sake.
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@user-cz1pk8ru2j Uh, when looking at the stats, the US is not doing as great as it used to be, but much of its issues are hardly comparable to the likes of the USSR. Its economy is still growing quickly despite being high-income, it still maintains a large middle-class, it still maintains a relatively young population, etc. It has issues on the micro level, but on the macro level its doing better than ever. China is facing issues in both the micro and macro level, which the CCP isn't willing to address.
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@ovoc6712 Wrong, China was predicted to surpass the US economically (not as a global power) in 2030 in the mid-2010's. Since China's GDP slowdown, that has been pushed back as far as 2100. China's economic slowdown has not stopped yet, so at this rate it may never reach the US' GDP.
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@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle US debt clock only takes into account the number, not the debt-to-GDP. As the YouTuber pointed out; the US still has a relatively low debt-to-GDP. And China would too, if not for the fact that it is pushing much of its debt onto its provinces, which raises that debt-to-GDP to as high as 300%. One of the largest in the world, and way larger than the US'.
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@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle Yeah, I checked afterwards, and it does. Its at 136%, which is much smaller than China's 300%+
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It does, but the issue by comparison is far FAR more severe in China than the US. So you're being far more hyperbolic than they are.
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There weren't videos of China falling in 2000, only of it surpassing the US. Videos of China falling began around the mid-2010's. So nice try.
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@tc-tm1my They were clearly being sarcastic. They're saying that because there were videos of China's decline in 2000 (there weren't) that any videos of it now are all fabrication.
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@gregoryedwards9097 Pure copium. The US is decentralized enough that many things get done, its just not blatantly shouted to everyone for everyone to clap over. China blared to the world that it is making a bunch of infrastructure, even in small nations when that infrastructure is relatively small. Meanwhile a few bills are passed and US begins billions of dollars worth of infrastructure projects within. In short, you fell for the classic authoritarian trap where you perceive the authoritarian is doing more because they say so. Which they HAVE to do even when it makes no sense to; which is contributing massively to China's current issues like the real-estate bubble. Seriously, after the many f@ils Putin and Xi have made the past few years, you have to be sticking your head in the sand to think that the their "decisions" haven't done more harm than good for their countries.
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There is no such thing as Sinophobia, anymore than there is anti-Americanism.
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@yestomor7673 Well, its just funny tbh. But yeah, the CCPbots don't really have an answer to this video. Nobody is saying that China is collapsing, just that its slowing down, and unlikely to surpass the US anytime soon due to structural and institutional issues.
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