Quote from: CBC on December 13, 2023, 21:50:01China should sanction US companies and use the lame a** national security reason that the USA thrusts out there.
And at this moment, smart readers will immediately ask Chinese propagandists - why aren't the Chinese authorities doing anything serious against American companies? ))
Yes, for a simple reason - China is the king with a bare a**. No matter how stupid American officials were, they were still smart enough not to allow the most advanced equipment to be supplied to mainland China. That is why everything important is concentrated nearby in Taiwan and South Korea, which are under US control and covered by their missile defense system.
And the fact that greedy American capitalists ruined their own country - what's new in that? Greedy and cynical capital always flows to where it can squeeze more profit from the worker. It is obvious that in Asia labor is several times cheaper than in the US and EU. For this reason they killed the American and European working class. Leaving only layers consisting of speculators of all stripes as the "middle class".
China explicitly admits that it does not have the human capital to even catch up with the US in its current level of technology. But a real "center of power" must not only catch up with a competitor, but be able to get ahead of it, so that the world becomes more interested in cooperation with it than with the United States. So far, everything is exactly the opposite, to the screams of stupid propagandists in China, Russia, Iran and even more trifles.
Brains decide everything. But China clearly doesn't have enough brains. The quantity of the population does not translate into its quality of human capital.
The USA, of course, has become rotten to the core over the past 30 years, but it is still a leading center of scientific and technological progress, like its closest satellites in Europe and other countries. China is just a catching up industrial country rather than a post-industrial one.
Iron without brains is worth nothing...