Scientific innovation has been driving US economic growth for decades. Losing that edge means losing access to the technologies and brainpower that come with it.
I’m not buying it. There still remains an awful wealth gap and hence class conflict only skillfully hidden by state propaganda.
As someone living in a country so close to Mainland China, and having survived a fuckhat named Duterte who called himself a president but was also running a massive meth business while allowing Xi to “invest” and but Triad-wannabes mostly on offshore gambling, we are still being asked to exchange one hegemony with another, a hegemony demanding that their “nine-dash” BS be recognized as “legitimate and unshakeable”.
I’m not buying it. There still remains an awful wealth gap and hence class conflict only skillfully hidden by state propaganda.
As someone living in a country so close to Mainland China, and having survived a fuckhat named Duterte who called himself a president but was also running a massive meth business while allowing Xi to “invest” and but Triad-wannabes mostly on offshore gambling, we are still being asked to exchange one hegemony with another, a hegemony demanding that their “nine-dash” BS be recognized as “legitimate and unshakeable”.