11-09-2023, 02:01 PM
(11-08-2023, 03:06 PM)Dill Wrote: And yet, they have become our #1 competitor in the world economy,
the second largest economy in the world. Somehow.
There's one and only one reason China became a competitor to US domination and it had to do with globalization and the services of the US Navy keeping the high seas available for global shipping. They owe nearly all of their newfound wealth to that single fact and it all happened in about 20 years. China's good fortune is drying up really fast. They have no friends in any of the island chains surrounding their coast line and they import or steal nearly all of their industrial inputs, energy, steel, technology and on and on. They import the vast majority of their food to feed their population. In comparison the US is self sufficient in nearly all of the above. It would only take a couple of destroyers sitting in the Malacca Straights to send China into all out famine in a matter of months.. China is FAR MORE dependent on us than we'll ever be of them.. In the grand scheme of geopolitics geography still matters A LOT and China was blessed with terrible geography. The United States was blessed with the greatest geography in all the world.. Two vast oceans and coastlines, massive navigable rivers right through the heartland, some of the best farmland in the world, more than abundant resources and a very diverse population from all over the globe.. Should I go on?
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