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You forgot to add how all commoditities are pegged to the US dollar and how it benefits the North American market and economy, but that may be left to another video ;).
@@youxkio Trust me youtube favour american propaganda. we will have to see if this ex journalist for wallstreet propaganda network is just another Gordon chang.
Not when the country has 1.4 billion people..... literally the population of 14 Russias 14 Japan's 20 Germany's 60 Australias.....when u have that many people,every percent of growth is a feat.
@@billfurlong4421 It changes a lot over time,but the state owned enterprises account for around 30%,so privately owned more than 50%,others may come from collective ownership
The USA is not in the South China Sea because it cares so much about the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, freedom and Democracy or free elections. USA is there because of this: "IT IS IMPERATIVE that no EurAsian challenger emerges capable of dominating EurAsia and thus of also challenging America". ~ Zbignew Brzeziński, former national security adviser for Jimmy Carter 🤔
@@olefella7561 Our good old Asia-Pacific region is now referred to as 'Indo-Pacific', and before long it would be called the 'Anglo-Pacific' region. By the way thanks for your insightful multi-pages 'Ole Fella' comment at, ua-cam.com/video/H6nkAVegk0g/v-deo.html
Well the main difference between Japan and China is that Japan's way of life and economy are equal to Western countries. They have quality goods, they are efficient and they politically and socially stable. If Japan's population was just to continue to grow it would have probably surpassed the US. China also has a shrinking population, but everything about their economy, politics and societal structure is far from stable. China is constantly censoring political dissendents, the communist party has fractured and there are two factions competing for power, they are oppressing all minorities and religions, and they are extremely aggresive towards all of their neighbors. Japan is not doing any of that.
@@dallascopp4798 interesting. Are there examples you can provide? To be devil’s advocate, we are seeing increasingly unstable political system in the west. Trump. The Capital riot/insurrection. Etc. Seems like both China and the US are a bit of a mess.
@@occam5375 The insurrection was mostly theater. And Trump was by, and large theater since he was so ineffective. Contrast that with China that actually makes political dissidents disappear. In the U.S. the capital rioters are getting a fair trial. That's what stability really entails. If someone says something bad about the government, and that someone suddenly vanishes that's a heavy sign of instability if that is the only way to remain stable. Think about it. The U.S. at one time fought a civil war, and that didn't destroy it. Simple conflict is not necessarily a sign of instability.
I trust the Japanese a hell of a lot more than the Chinese. Michael Pillsbury dug into Deng Xiaoping's 100 year plan to defeat the West. Buying up debt was one of the top priorities. As for the Japanese, their national Constitution and relative lack of standing forces means they are heavily dependent on the US for their protection. If America is strong, they are safe. If America succeeds, they succeed. The Japanese have a vested interest in seeing the US remain strong. The Chinese only want leverage over us.
To top it all off your a drain on their economy right now having to keep you under surveillance 24/7. You must be giving them something of value or you would have been gone by now?
@@danclmb what is wrong with you? There are at least 100,000 Americans in China right at this moment doing business. I doubt China has that big of a “work camp” 😉
China had a really good run. Seriously who thought in the 1970s that China would get THIS far?! That’s already a massive victory, even if China has a total meltdown.
@Superior than everyone China is the worst and most backwards country ever, and also racist Af. Way more than the US or other countries. And still has most of its population living on a dollar or less. Every time they announced less poverty they just lowered the threshold. It's all about face anyways.
My father works for a company (American) that was contracted by a Chinese competitor to assist the inexperienced Chinese company in constructing a facility, using the American company’s experience. Two things my father noted were that the entire design that the Chinese were constructing was needlessly complicated to generate more labor and jobs, even down to the ways everything had to be welded. The other thing of note was the complete apathy for construction worker safety, and the nonchalance of the Chinese foremen upon hearing of fatal accidents.
You're not going to be able to feed 1.4bil people well... some are gonna get dregs... the totalitarian government. Idk... 1.4bil people with complete freedom? China's probably gonna burn from the inside.
China just wants to be left alone to develop man... they ain't gonna rule the world. But it be cool to see them brawl, light up the skies. At least a huge wargame. Broadcast. Entertaint us.
This is one of the best explanations of the weaknesses of the Chinese economy I've seen in one video. Great video. America has many weaknesses, but we really shouldn't be overly worried about Chinese hegemony too soon. China is doing some things very well. I'm impressed with their long-range planning and especially the idea to become a leader in the new technologies of the zero-carbon future.
You've been bamboozled my friend. Can't credit CCP for long range "planning" while their housing infrastructure is dangerously outdated, not to mention their ghost cities sit vacant and dilapidated. Not very efficient at all. America does have many weaknesses as well, chief among them our growing dependence on central government coupled with reckless, irresponsible mismanagement of the budget and zero accountability for the Federal Reserve - both cancers of big government. When government grows too big, society soon decays.
@@Redditor6079 Agree with both of you. You measure the real force of a society more by looking how it handles national or international crisis, financial ones like 2008, or 2020 with the covid. Not sure the US handled both of them well, there still 50 millions of poor people living with less than 900$/month, and it's probably more. The USA could have done sooooo much better I like what countries like Germany or France have done the past 40 years, they protect much more their people, and they are still both successful capitalist and socialist economies at the same time, with some weakness of course. But a good combo. There's a 2012 IMF study, arguing that France and Germany are the best economy in proportion of population, taking also into account social indicators, infrastructures, and they're also the most capable economies to handle a financial crisis.
@@CloudC-kj6kt True. Terrible failure of US leadership and the cancerous philosophy of neoliberal capitalism. And it's only one of many disastrous failures.
China talks the talk and Americas fool politicians eat it up but to say China has any interest at all about zero carbon emissions is just naive and incorrect. China has currently on the drawing board 420 coal fired power plants it will have built by 2030. Ninety percent of all ocean pollution comes from seven rivers in Asia two of those are in China. When China mines for rare earth it has no interest about the environment. Only a fool thinks otherwise.
He lacks data too... First of all NEVER underestimate your opponent. Second, this idiots don't take in account socio - cultural aspects of this nations or the "human capital" as this idiot pointed out. USA at this point is a total mess, while China is highly determined. USA cant even figure out each bathroom they should use the "two moms" military add of US says anything you need to know about this problem. It does not matter if a country is more powerful than the other,if theres no will to fight back US wilL lose.
If this statement is true, so often is its inverse: without an opinion, you're just a person with data. As management guru Peter Drucker once said, "To get the facts [i.e., data] first is impossible. There are no facts unless one has a criterion of relevance.” In short, without an opinion to start with you won't know what part of the data you should be counting as facts.
I work in defence and id rather not elaborate on that. All of this is economic data missing a key factor. Our own inefficiency. It can take 2 days to put a circuit breaker on a submarine into a safe condition for us to simply turn off a pump on an active military ship to even clean a pump or to tighten a wire. This is because of the red tape and bearocracy brought out by us trying to account for the stupidest person that could possibly be hired. The chinese dont have this problem.
Well, there were other issues (their fucked up housing market and piss poor diplomacy doesn't help) but yeah, the baby thing will be one of the biggest nails in their coffin.
And how many highly-educated, highly productive people wish to move into China? The number is staggeringly small. Therein also lies the strength of the West: the best and the brightest move over there -including many of China's own top performers. This allows US to withstand its demographic decline much better.
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.
@@deliveryman12 CBDCs. Virtually every nation is developing it and once it's on you dont need 3rd party currencies for cross border trade but use your own CBDC
@@jmoney1410 I hope we don’t ever give them any more coal nor should we they need to stop trying threatening other nations giving them resources isn’t fixing the problem.
Something I read recently that wasn't discussed, and may have a large impact on China. Modern economies progress through a predictable cycle, one of the biggest aspects of this cycle being a huge increase of manufacturing output, to the point where that nation dominates in that area of the world economy for a period of between 40 and 50 years. This pattern occurred within the UK, the U.S., Japan and France all at some point over the last 150 years. China which saw a huge increase in manufacturing beginning in the 1970's is just coming into period where this cycle begins to show a slowing in manufacturing output in a maturing economy. More than likely this pattern occurs as labor and material costs increase and production is rotated into nations with lower labor expense. More than likely this will be India and Africa in the coming decades filling this aspect of global manufacturing capacity.
USA manufacturing started to buy materials from China to sell their products. Later they outsourced their operations to China, and bugger the USA workers. However, The shareholders and big boys still get their wealth. Such is Capitalism and the naivety of the brainwashed masses. Shelf life. Now on the decline and soon out.
Sweden was in a similar position after WWII, it was one of the last intact, fully operational economies in Europe and had the ability to produce massive amounts of wood and steel, this in turn let the mainly social democratic government reform the national and implement all the social security systems it has. The growth of the Swedish economy from 1945 well in to the 1970's-80's was nearly unprecedented but then.. Well today Sweden is trying to reforge itself in to a modern service based economy as most of the industry has shut down.
Good. American hegemony is FAR from perfect but the prospect of a world made in the image of China's Orwellian surveillance state is the stuff of dystopian nightmares.
@Christopher Meisner I think the overestimation comes from the US Navy having more than half the worlds super carriers along with 10 jump carriers. So the US is completely capable of closing out sea lanes for an extended period of time if it really wanted to. Other than that then I’d agree. Although I don’t think we’ll swallow you guys up any time soon lol.
It's always better to have a "world police" nation that is more powerful than the others but not too powerful to take over the world. And the US doesn't want to take over the world because it's a democracy - governments change every 8 years (at max) and so does the national course
If you look at history (the past hundreds of years), China, and also India, had been the biggest economies of the world. But had never been able to project this power beyond their borders. Like European countries were able to do. Having a huge population has the benefit of making you the biggest economy, but the curse of keeping your power firmly within your own borders.
You need to acknowledge “Unrivaled” by Michael Beckley. Nearly everything you said came straight from Beckley’s latest work. Not mentioning his work, not even once, is intellectually unethical.
According to this video Switzerland should be the world superpower. After all it's even more efficient and wealthier than America. America isn't and hasn't ever been the wealthiest or most efficient economy, because you don't need to be in order to be the most dominant. And the part about the Chinese military was dumb because China doesn't even aim to have global military parity with the US - they only want to be able to fend off the US in their own backyard. They're literally behind Azerbaijan in military spending per capita, while the US is second in the world (just behind Israel) lmao! They pretty much invented a narrative for China in order to deflate it. The only valid thing this video pointed out was China's impending demographic difficulties, which is hardly news to anyone.
@@xila-man8249 China's remarkable economic success has come at the cost of environmental destruction, social unrest and personal freedoms. The CCP is so afraid of free thought that you'd be breaking the law just by reading this if you live there. It's breathtaking corruption at the highest levels of government is staring down a huge, cheated, lied to and pissed off underclass,. Toss in a real estate collapse and there's your revolution... again. Good luck.
@@bardigan1 Buddy you don't have to waste your time with me by selling me your Anti - Chinese propaganda sentiment... I follow China thoroughly both from Western bias news and Chinese media news as well. And I had come to learn never to take anything the Western Media say about China seriously...
@@xila-man8249 I'm not anti-Chinese, I'm anti any system that thinks it's more important than the people it represents. You were the one extolling Chinese economic successes, I just pointed out the costs they've paid to achieve that success. It's not sustainable. Don't confuse that with anti-Chinese.
Did you mean to say "time changes everything"? History is looking backwards, time is looking forwards. You're correct that a country once hegemonic cannot sustain that position forever. Look at all the empires of the past.
@Matthew Shields The channel might be pro-capitalists but the bald guy in the video has admitted that he is a left winger. Even left wing people got to eat.
@Matthew Shields China is more capitalist than anyone else…. It might have a communist government system but their business practice is incredibly capitalist.
@@inflationstation1 Bullshit. China is a communist country using capitalist elements to enrich itself. And it shows It is just the recent crackdown on tech industry and demand for wealth distribution.
@@3s0t3r1c China has seen the mess made over here and China is clearly looking to grow its influence, have a military that is proud to fight for its country and I doubt pissing off the classes that are going to do the footwork in their goals is a good way to go about it. I don’t know how many British or American service members/ working class you have spoken to lately but the odds of them risking their lives for the quality of life they have is minimal. I think we’ll be lucky if we don’t see a guillotine set up in Trafalgar Square in the next 10 years.
The aged population dilemma is very true, you can’t imagine how much effort had to be invested just to get married. For starters, poor individuals especially male factory workers will have trouble finding mates because no parents in China willing to give away their precious daughter to a poor bum. As for the bride, they too interested in grooms who achieved the minimum 3 criteria which is Car, House and Wealth. If a men couldn’t supply all of these criteria, then it is unlikely for them to tie knot. Ironically some wealthy individuals can’t pick their lovers, often forcibly sign up with matchmaker by parents who wanted to secure elite family lineage. Worst, even both parents agreed on marriage, the groom had to follow custom such as paid upfront for “bride price” ; giving money to bride’s extended family and reserve seat at the banquet; organising a wedding ceremony that cost a bomb yet enduring the hazing culture during banquet as purported by Chinese marriage. At the end, it left groom and their family heavily in debt let alone discussing about raising kids. But as Chinese custom would tell, parents will again interfere couple relationship which likely coaxing them to produce a heir. These factors lead to breakup of a union and divorce preceded. Another hammer throw into Chinese government works when a survey done in early 2021 indicated 95% of new wed couples refused to conceive a child. The post quickly taken down to mitigate humiliation. From the current situation, if China government did not give tax break for new parents or doing any drastic changes, then its population will keep declining over years.
thanks for your coment, it seems to be worst that we know. For some countries is hard reach higher levels due to their cultureal believes that sometimes are hard to modify or change , specially if the population do not have much access to external cultural influences that allowd them to compare and see ways of living from a different angle.
@@benjesus6571 no, it was the right policy at the time. Like anything else, there will always be consequences. The policy solved short term problems to survive but in the long run there will be different problems that needs tweaking. A lone mountain climber got his hand lodge between a rock. What was his short term solution? It may be drastic but he is able to live another day.
USA, USA we love our rich people... gotta go, the shift for my third job just started gonna need it to pay off my student loan and my medical fees from falling off the stairs last week.
Its too early to call at this point, is my thought. Sure China's slowed down their growth and they have lots of problems to overcome that are holding them back.. but at the same time we have a US that seems to be dead-set on destroying its own dominance. Its not really a question of whether China can surpass the US at this point, it seems to be more of a question of whether who will collapse in on themselves first.
USA is already collapsing, Socially, politically, manufacturing, militarily and scientifically. The bully of the world is destroying itself , after doing the same to a hundred countries before. Thanks be to god. Lol
@@simonjones9455 > Thanks be to god I wouldn't be giving divine approval quite yet. Sure, the US has been a less-than-ideal overseer of the world, but power vacuums don't tend to last long. _Someone_ will take over if the US falls. So the question can't be "is the US a good steward for the world?", the question must be "would whoever replaces them be even worse?" And unfortunately, the answer to that question is undoubtedly "yes, much worse". China's foreign relations policy is little different from the US'. Less bombs involved (so far) but that's mostly because they don't (yet) have the military resources to do that. Beyond that, their playbook is almost identical to the US'. And their internal policy is a human rights atrocity at best. Next in line used to be the EU, but after Brexit they're obviously less of a power in general, but more importantly they've focused inward trying to repair their own problems before another country decides to secede. They have little interest in foreign policy at the moment beyond the absolute necessities of trade and self defense. And even if they stepped up, its not like Europe's got a fantastic history either when it comes to world dominance. Sure the modern EU is a much different beast from the multiple competing kingdoms of colonial times, but that history is still there. So we're down to what.. Russia? They aren't exactly known for their benevolence either. Though in some ways getting this far down the rankings might be OK to a certain degree - Russia is still classified as a "superpower" but they're a very distant third from the US and China - the control they impose likely wouldn't be fantastic, but at least they probably aren't powerful enough to impose _too_ much on the rest of the world. At least as things currently stand. And that's about where the list ends. There's not really any nation or group of nations that come anywhere close to the power of those 4. Maybe the African Union will get there some day, but that's probably decades away and they're still constantly on the verge of civil war between various tribes, factions and whatever other demographic breakdowns can be found across those multitude of countries. But 4 is more than enough. I can't imagine any world where the top four powers all disappear at the same time that doesn't involve them _making_ each other disappear - ie: massive nuclear war. And if that ever happens, there won't really be any countries to worry about anymore. The tiny fraction of us that survives will all be back to living in tribes.
@@altrag But let me just say this both country has committed human rights issues but it is China in the United States that is not being transparent about such issues. You were clearly just someone who speaks without facts but instead supports one side for the sake of popularity and so-called nationalistic Pride. Not to mention what China did to my family in which they brutally murdered most of them for speaking out against such regimes. What’s so great about China or the United States when it is the people of individual countries not the government that’s the most powerful at its head.
@@aviatorsound914 Huh? Maybe you misread what I said? China's far worse for human rights abuses. No question about that. Its their foreign policy - ie: dealing with _other_ countries where China and the US are on similar footing, with the US likely being somewhat worse (simply due to the US' military power - I have no doubt China would happily commit atrocities abroad as well if they had the capability). There's nothing "great" about either country, but _some_ country is going to be the leader of the world. I'm just discussing the possibilities. But neither you nor I have any say over who will "win" in the end.
@@altrag Wow you should make videos, you are definitely better than this channel. But the dominance of a single superpower is a rare event, it is likely that things will return to the way they were, and the conflict will be between many powers and alliances, and the time of international law will end.
Somehow the US is getting "richer and richer" as the government goes further and further into debt. When you own the money printer and control the global reserve currency, that's a bit of an unfair advantage isn't it?
The hare had his great advantage. Yet the tortoise won. Today US has emulated EU by creating wealth from policies. While China has emulated world history by industrializing. The US had their industrial advantage disassembled. If the pen is mightier than the sword. Then who is mightier? Policy makers or makers of both pens and swords?
@@davebauman4991 The USA produces more today then it ever has, with much less people. Look it up. The USA is still by far more industrial then any country.
as someone that's lived and worked in both countries, was in the US military, and has studied and worked at universities in both countries, I can agree with almost all of these points except the ones discussing university. To say that American universities are essentially superior to Chinese ones isn't in the least bit accurate. While cheating is rampant in Chinese universities and individual creativity is not so highly celebrated, Chinese universities are significantly more focused. They are less profit driven so they don't need to feed courses that take away from specialties into the curriculum to the same degree that America has to.
I’m from Russia and I actually like the Gen Ed system American colleges have. It’s nice not to have a limited education, but I can see the issue with taking a philosophy class as a computer science major
@@CleverChina my big qualm is that it actually effectively gatekeeps people that could be great in a specific field from continuing on with their studies, and it makes studying more expensive and take longer.
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson I'm assuming you're saying that from the viewpoint of someone that's only experienced university in one country. I'll take what you say with a grain of salt big guy
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson also, what do you mean most of the world? Where in the world have you gotten that information? Where have you been and what have you done there?
I don’t think China needs to be as powerful as the US, but if China can take Taiwan, defend it, and themselves, then they’re powerful enough. That is is what causes concern.
One of China's major goal is to establish an Asia economic system independent of U.S. dollar monopoly, something Japan wanted to do during WW2. Due to colonialism, Western governments hold great influence over world economy for centuries, having an continent free of such influence would allow local nations to trade freely, much like using Euros.
China cannot take Taiwan with out risking war with the United States and is why it has not happened! War is not in either countries best interests nor the world…..
@@adrastoso9727 Any nation whom U.S. calls an enemy but hasn't invaded, is an enemy that could potentially cause U.S. significant damage, such as China, in comparison to Iraq. While U.S. has the strongest army in the world, they are scattered everywhere to maintain control over other nations. If U.S. and China ever fought, Russia would join in the moment U.S. send in the back-up. The U.S. would suffer enough losses that they could no longer maintain the aforementioned control over the world as they are right now, even if it won the war. As it is, it's far more beneficial to wage battle over economy and media. As difficult as it is to say no to China's economic potential, international media is largely within the control of U.S. and European nations, defaming is far easier than using guns.
@@Cyberium our economies are tied together to make it economically a bad idea to go to war. It is tough to break because all these corporations are making so much money on cheap labor, or at least they used to…. Things are changing and public option has turned on China among everything this video talks about. People seem to assume that Russia would just come to China’s aid and declare war on America, but that could work against Russian’s interests. China wants lands that Russia holds in support Siberia. The only reason Russia and China are getting along is because of the threat of the United States! In reality China is a far greater threat to Russia because America doesn’t want to possess any of Russians lands while China does! Also, America has far more allies than China does. China just tends to upset its neighbors are they fear China for good reason including fellow communist Vietnam. In a situation such as a war many countries would try and stay neutral, probably including Russia as well. There are UA-cam videos talking about what could happen in a war between China and Russia; interesting stuff but not in anyone’s interest.
@@adrastoso9727 It's economically tied, yes, and another reason why U.S. would not declare war with China easily. Though, China had been wanting to establish an Asian trading zone with minimal U.S. dollar influences, that works against the agenda of Western corporations, leaving it unchecked would be bad business also. It'd end U.S.'s monopoly of the world, that's what U.S. and its allies are afraid of. As for Russia, you might be surprised that they very well might come to China's aid, the reason being that if China is defeated by U.S. and subsequently occupied, U.S. military would be right next to Russian border, do you think Russia would allow that? Russia also has high oil reserve, one reason why U.S./Europe is trying to economically oppress Russia to sap it for cheap, which Russia is NOT at all happy about. (Europe pretty much serves U.S. at this point) And when you consider allies, you also need to consider the ever-present issue of economy. U.S. was the leading economy of the world, it also have military base on multiple nations' soil to present a physical threat, it was easy for weaker nations to choose U.S. over China a few decades ago, for profit and safety alike. However, now that China can potentially provide a more lucrative trade deal, these nations are forced to choose sides. It's not they're afraid of China, what they're afraid of is that they have to choose side between two super powers. Do not for a moment believe that U.S. wouldn't punish its "ally" for their misgiving. None of those nations, including Japan, enjoys having U.S. military bases on them, and each of them are tired of being U.S.'s puppets. Last time Taiwan disappointed U.S., the U.S. ditched the alliance and befriended China. There's no such thing as moral or justice in international politics, only profits. If a war ever happened, how many of U.S.'s allies would actually help out? I bet most of them would wait for the result. And, do you remember why U.S. and Europe recently want to impose their infrastructure influence on the rest of the world? Because while they spent the past centuries continuing modern colonialism, China actually progress significantly on building its own as well as helping continents like Africa. While Westerners pillaged Africa for resources, keeping them minimal like cattle, China offered ways to build Africa nations in exchange for resources. China must've done something right, or else U.S. and Europe wouldn't be following China's steps, late though it may be.
"For every dollar of exports to the U.S. 55 cent's are components made in the U.S."..... I had to replay that several times, just to make sure I heard it correctly....
Haha. We export expensive wrapping paper. If a chip is made here for a computer, then it is like 95 cents of every dollar. That is a dramatic example, but I’m certain that scenario illustrates the basic concept he’s suggesting. Still..55 cents?
Aviation components, medical equipment, and agricultural goods of all sorts are some of the things China depends on the US for. That's before considering the education and tourism to Chinese visitors which if considered exports the US has a massive trade surplus on.
As an American it makes me proud that anybody from anywhere in the world can come here, become a Citizen, and be prosperous. You can't buy that kind of soft power.
The Chinese being a prime example. Could be all those students coming home from Uni in the West are giving Xi indigestion. Hence the crackdown on boys bands and foreign tutors.
Surprised you didn't mention 1) increased cost of shipping 2) environmental impact 3) working population demographics.... would think all three (plus reserve currency) favor USA
Nor did the video mention that Joe Biden (who was installed and not elected) is in China's pocket with deep, corrupt and notorious financial ties to his family. All that smiling footage of Joe in this video doesn't even REMOTELY reflect A) how he really is, now (senile and disoriented, virtually 100% of the time), and B) soundly hated in most of the USA. He has no base. There are NO Joe Biden lovers in the USA. Certain people just hated his opponent -- but they do NOT love him.
@@nicko8605 you must not study history. .....all empires of the past also say the same as you. China will rise to power and eventually self destroyed like any empire of the past. U.S is in the process of destroying itself. U.S is so powerful that no country can destroy it but from within, like most people will die of cancer.
US status is mainly due to its militar and financial power, as well as its colonial history and its constancy of purpose to be the imperial successor to the UK.
@@mbsaizvega907 Well, duh... It is the biggest military and financial power in the world, and your theory is that is where it's status comes from? And it has not occupied one singe country with imperialism. In fact, it has left every country it ever occupied, even after WWII. Look at what the soviets did after WWII and the countries THEY occupied. The US has kept the ocean free for trade, provided everyone with free GPS, always render aid after disasters, etc, etc. You want to be a hater, but your logic is full of holes.
@@noahway13 US have invaded and occupied many dozens of countries, and It has military bases all over the Earth. It IS an Empire whether you like it or not. It's funny that you say that I express hate for saying that, because the video and almost all the comments understand it that way and are proud of it.
@@b.s.5239 What do you think Russia or China would do if they had the might and capabilities of the US and NATO ? Talking of manifest destiny? Go back thru time and see what has happened when one country entered another, how many of them took care of business (catching Bin Laden) and departed? No country did that ever until WWII, and Russia tried keeping it's new possesions. If you think every country in the world has the US afraid of it, that is why US is not attacking, you are legit crazy. And the US will leave is asked to. For one, they abandoned their big base in Philippines when asked. They gave back the Panama canal for ZERO. Etc.
@@noahway13 The US has occupied dozens of countries, has organized hundreds of coups, has committed genocide every day since its founding, has killed millions of people by weapons, starvation and other methods... Fear has a lot to do with the friendly attitude of so many countries. People want to stay alive, Keith And avoid if possible drawing the attention of the United States
US advantages: It is an immigration magnet and attracts top talent all over the world also English is widely spoken so immigrants can integrate easily and contribute. US disadvantage: Democratic processes sometime leads to more in-fighting and pandering to voters than pushing unpopular policies that solves economic issues. Chinese advantage: A large population and lower cost. A strong educational system with many more engineers and scientists produced. Single-party system can plan very long term economic policies as well as push for unpopular policies. Chinese disadvantage: A poor immigration magnet, still not an attractive place for people to stay or immigrate (also difficult to immigrate). The Chinese language is not widely spoken thus it is difficult to attract talent to China. Rapidly ageing population with a large healthcare and pension risk in future. In short, what Japan is facing now is quite similar to what China is facing. Finally, a single-party system is not fallible as we can see that their economic policies are faltering.
I would say their (current) economic policy's are not just faltering but will cause a retraction or recession in China, the biggest factor in China's growth was the adoption of a capitalist economy however capitalism and communism are two incompatible systems and for one to flourish the other has to eventually go, China has mostly avoided that choice by having special economic zones and keeping the CCP mostly out of the equation however with the rich elites getting richer and the free flow of information necessary for innovation it was eventually going to bring to light it's gross inefficiencies and put pressure the CCP run government to reform. What did happen was Xi and his back to the future 'Mao is the best!' crack down, under Xi the CCP is reforming the economy and it's people so as to not threaten the CCP which means good bye to capitalism in China and back to a mostly planned economy and it will be 'that' which will be the driving force to the growing gap between it and the US.
The Language thing is changing fast though. I know that on our school Chinese was taught the same as French or German (you have to pick 1 of those three to graduate in).
China is absolutely a better country than AmeriKKKa in so many ways, it has better and modern infrastructures, cleaner and safer cities, you can hardly see thrash or garbage on the sidewalks or streets, there's no homeless people living in tents defecating and urinating the sidewalks and streets, used syringes are also scattered EVERYWHERE, AmeriKKKa is a disgusting place to live in, a literal sh*thole. 😁
Very good. Thank you. But you missed one key difference. USA is intrinsically selfish. China is intrinsically community and Nation before self. That’s a huge rudder on what can and will be done. USA can’t even control Covid. Ditto selfish countries that essentially glorify democracy where even village idiots can vote......
@@BLAZE-sj6lf better infrastructure? Havent u heard about the blackouts across 1/3 or the country? What about all the tofu buildings? What about all the fake and tainted food that is sold through out china? How is that safer than the US countries? Some food getting tainted with opium. Instead of syringes its added directly into the food? How is that safer ?and lets not forget that China exports fentanyl to drug dealers. Trying to get westerners addicted to it. the CCP has no morals and are very racist towards foreigners in China. ua-cam.com/video/GYr87XCAa48/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/RElGXLwWTvI/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/eONGlAKxJzs/v-deo.html
@@amos325 wu Mao alert, this Amos is a paid ccp shill, who in their right mind would take this as an argument ahahah, so if every cultural site in France is destroyed but the Eiffeltower then its fine?
@@jianhuang2293 what aboutism is your strong point. Okay then so what about the people who died from hunger in China (millions) how about the uighurs genocide. What happened In the past cannot be changed but we can learn from it hence why western countries don't do genocides anymore contrary to the nazi ccp
I like how even though you're literally half-rapping with how fast you're talking I can still understand and follow your talk. Usually people who speak with this tempo are pretty hard to follow. Literally almost thought I was in 1.25/1.5x speed for a moment
@@wayne1516 The US might be a nicer place to live, but it's a far worse country to have as world superpower. The US has only served itself and its allies well - for the rest of the world it's been disaster after disaster after disaster. Their foreign policy has been destructive and hegemonic, much like their British predecessors. China hasn't been to war in decades, and even the wars it did launch all those decades ago have killed far fewer people than America has even in just individual wars.
@@ArawnOfAnnwn nope China is worse as a super power. The fact that you feel you can type bad things about US on UA-cam without fear of censorship proves that point.
@@wayne1516 Lol no! That you make such a big deal out of censorship while discounting millions of deaths in so many wars is telling of just how warped your ideologically inclined thinking is. And the censorship you posit won't even be a thing to begin with, because you people literally invent doomsday narratives to fuel your paranoia. China doesn't even aspire to have that level of global control - it literally views it as an unaffordable and idiotic expense. This video makes the same mistake when it talks about the Chinese military versus the American one, pretending the Chinese are gonna have massive blue water fleets like America does. In reality China is 58th in the world in military spending per capita, behind Azerbaijan lol! America is second, behind only Israel (Russia is 25th, for context). And this despite America being in a far more secure geopolitical position than China or indeed most countries in the world are - that shows how militarist they are that they spend so much anyway. China has better things to do. They want security of their region, which means being able to beat the Americans in their own backyard. Beyond that, they'd rather focus on economic programs both locally and internationally (like the BRI) as a way of exercising power. You're making the dumb assumption of a binary choice, as if China is just gonna take over America's role if it becomes the big kahoona. Hardly. And UA-cam is an American company, which means China will never have much control over speech on here - pretty much only as much as Google allows it to, in order to get access to the Chinese market (in other words, the same situation as today). So I'm hardly afraid of censorship on UA-cam if China succeeds, as they simply won't have the same level of hegemony. Indeed they won't even have hegemony - they'll counterbalance the US. Now YOU prove your point. America has way more blood on its hands than China does thanks to its endless foreign wars - something China can't even do in most countries even if it wanted to. Preferably without falling back on a half century old dead man who still didn't kill via foreign wars. There are broken countries all over the world thanks to American hegemony, so kindly drop the self-centered whining about speech online and deal with the corpses. Cos all that vaunted free speech and democratic accountability still hasn't stopped the US from constantly going to war everywhere, despite having had decades to do so. While authoritarian China hasn't been to war in decades.
Very interesting fact based analysis. My only comment is that when you talk about retired population you show some Japanese happy pensioners. The rest is great
@@nationalistfanatic6291 Yes, but do you know why China has fallen in the first place that led them to communism ? Its also because of the White Men who wants tea 🏴 (Great Britain, England)
@@nationalistfanatic6291 no??? Are you dense??? My point is, that if not for the British selling freaking opium to the chinese populace at the time (marking the beginning of Century of Humiliation) it could be different just like japan, (but they aslo did not industrialized, so its kinda their fault). The fall of the qing dynasty is because of the "White Man" i did not even said the the chinese people are lesser idiot
@@nationalistfanatic6291 you also said that if it werent for the white man they would be eating grass right now, right??? If China is a democracy it would be like Taiwan (Originally Democtatic Republic of China)
The Chinese growth strategy was simply to grow as fast as possible without consideration of regulating and developing industry, safety, and legal issues. The easy part of fast growth in China is over, because the wasteful creation of redundant unused assets is prohibiting further growth as inefficiencies in China become more and more a factor in restricting all forms of what a self sustaining economy does.
@@Lee-Van-Cle The specialty of high speed train technology is the domain of the Japanese and not of American technology. They stole the technology and everyone knows about the incident, because there are articles and statements by Chinese economists that gave their opinion about the situation. If you don't want to read Japanese protest news about it, Fortune magazine has articles about the overall timeline and occurrence of the event.
@@fturla___156 You sounds like Trump and your claim is based on fake news. Starting from 2004, China bought both the train and technology from Japan, and then Germany. Then she developed the Chinese system with her patented technology. There was never any complaint from the Japanese and German company, as the deal was lucrative. The rule is simple, like Trump said: If you don't like, just leave. Similarly, if it is unfair, don't trade with China. Take it or leave it, the choice is up to you, But bear in mind that foreigners are no longer entitled to sell opium in China now.
@@Lee-Van-Cle You don't have any back up to state your claim. And on top of that, you just proved in your second statement that your first comment was wrong. LOL - I'm wondering if you are going to delete some or all your comments just to hide? Most people do, when they find out that other people realize that they are either stupid, incompetent, lying, or any combination when the mistake is obvious. Maybe you still don't know? LOL
@@fturla___156 I don't need any back up, as there was no such claim of Technology stealing from the companies Kawasaki and Siemens. The burden of proof is on your side, and you are the one supposed to hide. BTW, You are right that the domain of USA is not in Infrastructure, namely, Build Back Better, but blah, blah, blah, as the Swede put it. The domain of US is to make homeless people, both inside or outside the states. Number of Homeless, American First! My Congratulation!
At the 11 minute mark you talked about the aging Chinese population, one thing that is constantly being over looked is the huge population drop that China will experience in the next few decades. The one child policy (1 child to 2 parents will result in a huge population drop) combined with the tendency of favoring boys and you end up with some cities with a 10:1 ratio of men to women. Also, currently China is on the verge of a nation wide famine. China long ago out grew its ability to feed its own population and they are unable to import enough food to meet its growing needs. This is why they tend to eat "exotic" foods like bats, not because they have a taste for it but because they have to eat whatever is available. Wild game is nearly extinct in the Chinese country side and the coastal waters have been severely over fished. China is truly on the verge of collapse. If famine does take hold before the population drop it could mean war with its neighbors as they try to seize resources (in this case food rather than oil).
If China is so good, Why millions of ethnic Han-Chinese escape from China to Uyghur East Turkestan, Tibet, America, Europe, Latin America even Somalia ? ... Why so many Chinese are dying in on their way escape from China to other countries ? . . . If China is so good, Why China's Uyghur organ harvesting is going on, Uyghur genocide is going, Tibetan genocide is going on, Southern Mongolian genocide is going on ? . . . Why China cannot produce enough food to feed over 1.4 billion citizens ? . . .
@@victoriaalton4940 lmao this is so wrong on so may levels. Okay you want to make a point about human rights in China, point taken, but all your facts are wrong lol if China controls xinjiang, how would "escaping to" there be any better? it doesnt even make sense logically lol
@@victoriaalton4940 this is just pure idiocracy lol, china has a lot of moral flaw and of course and CCP have a really bad image, but millions of Han Chinese fleeing the country? Well not sure about that 🤣 can't feed 1,4 billion of their people? What time is it now 1970? , can't deny the uyghur geno part for sure, but never ever heard about tibet genoc, are you pulling that out of yo ass?
@@BLAZE-sj6lf Japan would always be a regional power, but never one to rival the US. This is because Japan has pretty much operated as a US vassal state after the Second world war. The US would not allow such potential to be reached for anyone else.
@@chobai9996 Like they did in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan? If you can't even meaningfully control those third world countries through military occupation, you're not gonna win a war against a much larger and powerful country, like China. And any war with China will be fought on Chinese turf in the sea or in Taiwan, which makes it even more difficult.
Good video, the only thing I would have done differently is made the graph of the population over 65 year old as a percentage of the population, not in absolute numbers. That's a bad way to compare two countries with vastly different population sizes.
Interesting video, however for your credibility I believe you should be consistent in your presentation of data. For example, the video showing population over 65 years old (11.09) should be adjusted for population, my impression is that the graphs which supports your narrative are adjusted for population. I really hope VisualPolitik can remain as objective as possible in its videos, as I enjoy them a lot, therefore I wanted to mention it when I see traces of divination to this, as if I get it diverging to much would make me value your service less. Have a good day,
This doesn't really change the fact though that China similary to many western countries suffers from a rapidly from an aging population aswell as its population growth declining sharply due to the long held 1 child policy. How this compares to the US is questionable but in addition to this you have to considere what has been said about its efficiency in general.
The US only owes money in USD so the debt isn’t really as big of a problem as a lot of people make it out to be. I’m interested to see what the future of China’s FDI looks like after the recent crackdown on tech companies and the Evergrande situation.
Foreign holdings are around 6-7 trillion USD, 1 trillion owned by china. But since this government is thirsty to print money with the initial 3.5 trillion giveaway (upt to 5 in the near future) that 6-7 trillion will be worth sh..t when the dollar hits the bottom.
Is it my impression or is this video based on a long series of clichés, unproven data, economic theories of the barber shop and a little bit of a little benevolence towards the friend who always gets out of trouble? We only lack corn-dogs and bacon as the healthiest and most nutritious food in the world
No man, I think you're right. This video was mostly quack interpretation. Broad subjective statements backed by questionable metrics. I mean, China will probably not surpass US. I can believe that. But this video said nothing to convince me of that. Only maybe the military+pension part. Polymatter made a much better video series about China's problems. This video was half baked. I think they made the title and then stitched together random data to make it sound credible.
China's over in terms of its rise. It will remain poor. No population has ever peaked before developed status and no population without freedom of speech and press, let alone habeas corpus, jury trial, stable democracy, property rights ever becomes wealthy, cultured or developed.
@@underdogtv2855 Economically speaking, true. China now becoming aggressive because it will lose the economic battle. Straight out of the authoritarian dictator's textbook of what happens in later stage regimes of such types.
China understands its limitations and its weaknesses. This is why they pushed so hard to become the dominant power. Geography, government structure, and an aging population is what will ultimately bring the country down.
@fa q that's about .20 cents for today. Keep it up, you might make as much as a uyghur in xinjiang does in one year. Maybe you should post about that....why don't you?
not really... experience and being at the top can easily lead to the sloth that Margaret Thatcher hated, though in her rush to make things more efficient, she destroyed the advantage that the UK had... carefully made machinery that was over-engineered, could be repaired and was long lasting. Sadly, and ironically, I think she played a large part in the West's decline, certainly to that of the UK.
@Moon Shine but is it great? It's all relative. I visited the place, and as Oscar Wilde said "I went to the US expecting little and ca,e back disappointed". A few great people, but a lot of uneducated, paranoid and boring (both in the sense of worldliness as well as classical education). I'd love to have some freedoms and space the 'septics' have, but I'd hate to live there - not for all the money in the world.
The Rabbit still say to himself... "I am still more faster than the Turtle... Lets take another nap..." "I am far ahead"... Nothing to worry... 😀 Good.
There’s more to power and influence than just having a lot of money. The US established relationships and standards decades ago that will allow it to remain in power for years to come. The CCP is going to have to loosen its desire for absolute control to become a fully developed country and to also obtain the level of influence they want. I think they should apply a system similar to Singapore. It’s a completely open economy with clear guidelines, but essentially has only one party in control. This starting point would allow other countries and companies to want to adopt their ideals, currency, etc. In other words they should aim to apply soft power.
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?
Singapore is what the CPC wants to think it's leading China toward, if it conveniently ignores that S'pore: 1) is a democracy where the dominant party accepts the results, even if its popularity fades; 2) is overtly and inclusively multicultural, not trying to Sinicize its citizens; 3) admittedly relies on foreign immigrants for much of its basic activities; 4) doesn't present a territorial threat to its neighbors, despite its superior military; 5) literally cannot survive without open trade access, and works constantly to build real trust among as many nations as it can; and 6) cracks down on even perceived corruption among its officials and enforces well defined laws dispassionately with everyone in its jurisdiction, not vaguely and selectively out of political convenience 🇸🇬
I do really think people over estimate China's place as a "super power". A few extremely important things people overlook: 1. Global reach: former Superpowers like the US, UK, and to a limited degree the USSR have bases all around the world. The US and UK especially have bases in allied countries but also outright own small islands all across the globe from the South Pacific to Indian Ocean to Atlantic. 2. Efficient military: the US and UK have well trained, experienced militaries that were proven in combat. They've fought from the jungles of Vietnam to the deserts of North Africa, to the skies over Europe to the seas of the Pacific and have won many battles and wars for the last few centuries. The Soviets have a similar story of fighting across Europe, Central Asia, and sending soldiers to fight in Africa, Asia, and South America. 3. Innovation: the US, UK, and USSR were global innovators in both civil and military fields. The US and UK fielded some of the first tanks, the first military aircraft, the first armored ships, the first subs, and the guided missiles and bombs. Between the 3 of them they built some of the best vehicles and weapons in any category. 4. Alliances: the US and UK have allies all across the global from Canada to Australia to France to Japan. The USSR formed allies in Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, the Warsaw Pact, and a scattering of South American and African states while also bringing in allies in the Middle East like Iraq. 5. Possibly one of the most important, soft power: countless people outside of the UK and US speak English as a second language, it's the official language in many international organizations, it's the lingua franca of many countries like India, and the language of business globally to the point I've seen people from neighboring or even the same country speak English together if they dont speak the same first language. Many of the top earning movies through history were produced by the US or UK and even many of the movies that werent were often originally produced in English (such as countless spaghetti westerns and other Italian and other European films), and many films or TV shows only become famous outside their original country after they translated it into English. People outside the US are probably familiar with landmarks, different regional cuisines, regional cultures, and regional stereotypes and can even point out many US states on a map and they're likely familiar with US politics and US history and the same is true with the UK. I once saw a Frenchman and a guy from the American South speak French together since the American grew up around Cajuns, the 2 people separated by thousands of kilometers spoke a common(ish) language thanks to nearly 400 years of shared history. Not to mention the fact that you can find people of the same religion (Christianity) the same sect (protestant) and even the same denomination (baptist, Anglican, Methodist) in areas as disconnected as the US, UK, central Africa, and south Pacific. China cant really compete in any of these fields. Countries like the US and UK spent centuries sailing the world, forging business and cultural ties, and forming alliances. The US helped build or rebuild countless countries before, during, and after the world wars. US businesses kicked down the door of isolationism and turned Japan and Korea from hermit kingdoms into global traders starting nearly 150 years ago. China built power rapidly but they're very clumsy and simply wield their power like a club and try to beat other countries into doing what they want like the US and UK did 100 years ago when that behavior was not only tolerated but the standard practice, but now that subtly is needed China simply hasnt figured it out yet. Despite all their power they're still about a century behind in these fields. China is kind of like Germany before the world wars: powerful, but clumsy and alone due to their behavior as a bully.
@@arthas640 China is not interested in becoming a superpower. China wants to be left alone. It's the West which is worried about China taking over the world. Nevertheless it's game over. Yahoo news: China has beat the U.S. to become the world's richest nation, according to a new report. Key findings: Global net worth soared from $156 million in 2000 to $514 trillion in 2020, making the world wealthier than it was at any point in history.19 Nov 2021
@@snslifestyleorg You can be a super power without taking over the world, even if you count loose allies or countries with similar ideologies then at best the US and USSR each controlled about 1/3 of the world at the peak of the cold war depending on how you count it (USSR had a larger population especially if you count Maoist China but the US and her allies had a larger economy). The only people who think China could take over the world are just a tiny paranoid fringe of alarmists, even if China grows larger then the US that doesnt mean that a majority of the world would turn on the US and ally with China, and that's assuming we never see a 3rd superpower like a more united EU or a stronger India. China is definitely interested in becoming a superpower and they're extremely interested in expanding influence. The whole purpose of the Belt and Road is to build bases in other countries in the same way the US has done, and at best its also to bring more countries into China's sphere of influence and at worst its to turn them into neo-colonies. The reason countries build bases in other countries and the sole reason to build aircraft carriers is for power projection and force projection. That's why the British Empire built ports all across the globe, why the US built air bases all across the globe, and it's why the British, Japan, and Americans all built so many aircraft carriers. Aircraft carriers unlike most warship types aren't useful for defense, only offense since a land air base is cheaper and more practical (dont need special tech or special planes, just a strip of tarmac). That's why in WW2 the Soviets and Germany (both building their navies to break blockades and guard their coast) didnt build aircraft carriers while Japan, the US, and British did and also why during the cold war the Soviets built so few aircraft carriers (they were mainly concerned with defending their coasts and could neither afford or required massive force projection).
@@arthas640 That's just a Western thinking. Throughout history China main focus has always been trade. China's military is for defensive purposes. This is different from the West which uses its military to coerce and invade other countries. The BRI is an infrastructure projects to enhance trade. In any case it's game over. Yahoo news: China has beat the U.S. to become the world's richest nation, according to a new report. Key findings: Global net worth soared from $156 million in 2000 to $514 trillion in 2020, making the world wealthier than it was at any point in history.19 Nov 2021
All of the countries of the world are in the same vast casino playing different games and using various strategies. But what they don't know is that the United States owns the casino and that it sets up all of the rules at every table and in every game. And the house not only always wins but it can decide at any moment that you lose.
@@Geofiendlux I spoke with a Chinese banker tonight, well this morning where he is now and he always talks about the main thing the banks fear is American regulations and penalties, and tonight he said the Americans are three years ahead of us in everything. This man trains international bankers and he is very proud. So if he admits three years I think it is much more than that.
@@johnabrams8148 and I completely agree, to your point, I'm pretty sure the US could hypothetically force Chinese banks from servicing even the likes of Xi Jinping due to the US Dollar being the dominant reserve currency.
Well the USA has always been the dominant economy in the world being larger than Japan, Germany, the UK, France, Italy and Canada combined. But China’s economy already surpassed the USA in 2014 if you use PPP purchasing power parity instead of nominal terms. China produces more steel and cement than the rest of the entire world. China is investing in AI and robotics. Looks like someone else has opened a casino and is taking customers away from their USA with more favorable rules in every table and game.
As you hinted at when you compare the two powers lists of enemies and friends it is hard to see how China could become the dominant global super power in the traditional sense. At a minimum if the two side came into conflict the US can rely on support from the majority of China's neighbours and the rest of the anglosphere. It has a very long road ahead of it if it seeks to replace the US.
China needs to chill the hell out. They are pushing and pressing buttons of so many other countries which makes those countries band together. If they'd just take a chill pill and relax a bit on the political side of things they could sit back and watch America fight itself... Instead they lie, cheat, steal, and bind your legs and arm together. It will be interesting to see their influence in Africa.
The mistake that China made is that they were betting too much on Western/American decline. They should realise that USA is extremely resilient .And it’s the greatest innovation powerhouse because of its ability to attract talent from across the world. China should have tone downed its nationalistic rhetorics and continue to focus on growth like it did in the 90s but it’s too late for that now. Now, they have to readjust.
China is getting to the hard part now. Going from a non industrialized to an industrialized nation is tough. They did this with remarkable speed. Foreign investment and infrastructure spending made them a very good low value added industury base. Cheap labor and great ports and roads. The rate at which it happened may have harmed their ability take the next step to a consumption driven economy though. A rapidly urbanized population tends to have less kids which means it ages quickly. They may get old before they get rich and this can mean stagnation and deflation. The same situation as in Japan but Japan is much wealthier by comparison. Robotics may be able to help with this from a production side but the consumption side is still there.
@Zgnid Olias China's national rhetoric is not their problem. They grew their market economy and now have decided they want to go back to communism. And then there is the problem that China has never answered for murdering over 100 milllion people like the Nazi's have.
The mistake you make is thinking they bet on American decline to begin with. You're following the same wrongheaded thinking the video does - inventing a narrative for China in order to deflate it. In other words, straw manning.
it's important to remember that even if Germany is no longer the global phenomenon it was at the start of the 20th century, it is still a stable and vital backbone in the global economy- I don't think China's growth stopping would necessarily be a bad thing, as it might also signify that the country, its political institutions, constitutional freedoms, and standards of living have finally stabilized to that of a first-world standard.
"Hold on , wait a second , . Pass me that joint. Hey , hey , go tell my guy to grab my bag of stuff. Hey , what's that , pull to the left, I mean right. Hey , go wake up the captain , I'm confused."
@@mattbowdenuh According to this video Switzerland should be the world superpower. After all it's even more efficient and wealthier than America. America isn't and hasn't ever been the wealthiest or most efficient economy, because you don't need to be in order to be the most dominant.
@@ArawnOfAnnwn But switzerland has a very low population. That is the issue. If India wants, it can destroy UK in a week but that will internally harm the country too. In reality, only US, China, India and Russia have the capability to survive in the world right now due to the sheer size of its population and the weaponry it possesses.
Well, all I can say is this is the once-in-a-century opportunity for India. As foreign investments in the manufacturing sector had been pulling out of China continuously for the past 5 years, if India can quickly cobble up an improved infrastructure, better policy and less bureaucracy, they can definitely come out on top as the real "next China". There are many advantages India has over China, and I think the most important ones are the upholding of contractual agreement, respect to private properties and a relatively independent judicial system. These are the big issues China never fixed or even tried to. But I think the window of opportunity might only last for around 10 years. This is because the South East Asian countries are also eager to get a piece of the action. Although they are much smaller than India, but their proximity to the major manufacturing powerhouses of Japan, Korea and Taiwan makes them an attractive alternative. Out of those countries I think Vietnam is quickly coming out on top, but its Achilles Heel will be the communist party resisting reforms, just like the communists of China.
@@ranban282 modi celebrating a huge religious festival instead of encouraging people to stay home. then they had to start burning bodies in the streets. thats pretty incompetent and irresponsible leadership. the ganges is full of raw sewage that people bathe in. india is mad dirty bro. it's also incredibly dangerous for women.rape is out of control there. so is corruption. india is not the future mate. lets be serious.
As a Chinese，The biggest problem in China is aging，China's birth rate is declining year by year. Can you imagine if there are billions of elderly people in a country? It is becoming a reality！China will not be able to move forward at that time
Of course nonstop growth is never possible, and China will face the same late-stage and post industrial challenges as the US and the western world did, but to say that US remains number 1 forever is a bit delusional too.
I pray to God Xi doesn’t start a war over Taiwan!! America has been hinting to China that the world’s military will descend upon China if they don’t relax and cool the threats!! China cannot defeat the United States in a war because America has over 7000 intercontinental ballistic missiles and other thousand station around the world just pointed at China!!
@@BILLEON2005 China is just bluffing over Taiwan - for god sake, it was Taiwan that actually help grind the gears to China developing a free market economy. You do not think the CCP and Taiwanese companies communicate?
@@icysaracen3054 Why do you think China wants Taiwan? They are the largest producer of semiconductors in the world and China within completely dominate almost every single computerized electrical instrument moving forward and give them a massive military and strategic advantage in almost every aspect of computers!! If China and Taiwanese companies communicate I assume it’s not in a very friendly manner after all the threats recently from China plus yesterday they flew 57 bombers and jets over Taiwan for 12 straight hours signaling to the world we’re getting ready!! I think China needs to be careful…
@@BILLEON2005 i don't think Xi exactly cares about what his people think, he'll most likely declare war on the us and taiwan before he dies, and if anything goes wrong he'll just kill himself like hitler had. i believe this because why would china do such a disgusting stunt in the first place? makes no sense.
Actually they were in decline the last years to decades, just as Visual Politik said. However, they won the elections because the other parties (Greens and Conservatives) had horrible candidates running for chancellor. Just look at the polls before the candidates were announced and the jump that has occured after that.
You know what’s ironic it’s been shown that the less impoverished a nation is the lower the population growth so if the cpd actually did it’s job the problem would have fixed itself
The implications are really interesting. An economy cant sustain itself with a declining population. This is the reason for immigration. Not a conspiracy like populists believe. Traditional religious and impoverished countries produce human capital. And more advanced countries continuously skim off the educated and affluent, making it more difficult for developing nations to advance. This is going to have bizarre effects on the gene pool and on culture. China will also need to import labor. Its going to become a nation of immigrants.
@@e.priest8937 Ah, but there's the problem. China is notoriously anti-immigrant, not just politically, but culturally. Right off the bat, outsiders are viewed with heavy suspicion, whether it be from dark days of colonialism, distaste of "western capitalism and values", or just plain racial discrimination. Add to that that foreigners are given few legal rights (foreigners have virtually no path to citizenship) or financial freedom (i.e. foreigners can't buy property, operate a business without Chinese intermediary, it's extremely difficult to acquire a driver's license, etc.) and that Mandarin is rather difficult to learn, and it's very uninviting for immigrants, especially in recent years.
@@QuantumAscension1 what do you say about Japan, or South Korea. They have very strict immigration laws. You can't become a citizen, ever. Japan even told the UN to fuck itself after suggesting they take Syrian refugees. And Western liberal systems aren't for every people. The failure of the Middle East and North Africa proved that fact.
@@QuantumAscension1 that's false. Green card holders are allowed. China doesn't allow non residents to buy property, unlike the US where the global elite pick up luxury units as investments and tax havens. Houses are for living in, not to park your extra millions of dollars or to speculate on.
There are definitely a lot of reasons as to why China might not surpass the United States of America, however do not let bias blind oneself. The United States is and has been on fragile ground for decades. It has overstretched itself in many ways. Quality of life, access to education or health care, these are things that Americans largely lack unless they are more well-to-do. Sure, if we look at metrics that are largely a show of the wealthiest Americans, it looks good, but that ends up giving a false appearance.
I found the video biased. How can he say the growth of the 1% in America is a good thing. Most of the 1% have grown their wealth through tax breaks, subsidies, deregulation of the labor market and denial of health care. Like you said China might not surpass the US but most of the indicators he used are totally irrelevant.
@@michaelotieno6524 Retirees with a million dollars in investments or pensions is not the elite 1% in America. In fact, the average value of a 401(k) held over 15 years is over half a million. That's the average. (Although one could argue that the figure "one million dollars" is worth less and less due to undereported inflation.)
@@michaelotieno6524 Yes, it is true. However, much of the corruption and preferred treatment is prevalent in most nations. It does have negative impacts and leads to inefficiencies, but to me that actually speaks to some of the strength that the US institutions have held.
A very good snapshot of the current situation. another interesting perspective would be a comparison of the investment each country is making in education, tech, financial centers, reserve currency status, and a few other determinants of power status. How will current investment position each country in, say, 40 years?
China is absolutely a better country than AmeriKKKa in so many ways, it has better and modern infrastructures, cleaner and safer cities, you can hardly see thrash or garbage on the sidewalks or streets, there's no homeless people living in tents defecating and urinating the sidewalks and streets, used syringes are also scattered EVERYWHERE, AmeriKKKa is a disgusting place to live in, a literal sh*thole. 😁
Dependency on oil is vanishing, there's a reason why oil nations are looking to liberalise their economy. Muhammad bin Salman wants to turn Saudi Arabia into Dubai while keeping only mecca & Medina as sort of muslim version of Vatican state which exists similarly in Italy. It's pretty smart.
@@Dept246 not even China uses their worthless currency when it comes to global investments. They tightened their spending on projects of other countries when they started running out of dollars. China itself is subservient to Dollars,
It’s good to hear that China’s poverty has drastically gone down. That’s something that China used to get criticized about. I hope one day that the people of India can do as well as the Chinese and get out of poverty too.
If it means lowering the bar on the definition of "poverty" and not really providing the freedom of movement and information needed to break upward, it's not really that much of an achievement.
@@doujinflip China's bar on the definition accounts for their PPP. An apple in China costs way less than that in US. US has more extreme poor than China.
I worked with Chinese engineers for an international auto exhaust part manufacturing. Lead engineers from other countries gave them an SOP for a process to help pass quality control. Most of the engineers in China that I worked with, failed to follow the SOP and lagged the project for approximately 3 years until I came. Not saying all of them are like that, but I wouldn't sweat. China does come up with innovative concepts but typically fail in quality control
Yes, the percentage of millionaires in the US has risen, but the middle class is collapsing at a far greater rate. The US model is also far from stable and social tensions may rise to an even greater extend. In the long term, neither the US nor China will be as dominant a superpower as the US has been in the past.
Wealth inequality is actually worse in China than the States. I agree that no country will become as dominant as the USA in 1948, noth without a major global war.
The US is currently undergoing something like the Great Resignation or Renegotiation, with former workers leaving old bosses out to dry in the resurgence of consumer demand as a strategy to finally experience that "rising tide" that's been promised for decades, but was instead dammed away with rich man tax breaks and offshoring.
it might if xi jiping will drop his ego and fantasies and it will start shifting back to being capitalistic plus the world organisations ignored chinas overdestructive work towards earth and if china continues this kind of actions their economy will go just as back as it was before big rise of china world is not scared of war world wants to prevent war and if its time for war they will go to war its fighting for life against guaranteed death that gives life meaning. japan is on china and it protected its borders and china is scared of japan and japan has its army and force aimed at china, taiwan will try protecting itself and aukus and india will take care of naval force and war on chinese borderland who knows who else will join and people will not just fight with force but also economically china will colapse unless it wants to become friendly nation minding own business but no china didnt have enemies china wanted enemies. 5years ago it was even unimaginable China against USA.
Guess you missed the parts in the video where he talks about over-inflated estimates by their government, the vastly less efficient use of their actual money, the hidden debts, the inferior quality infrastructure and the much greater amount they have to spend on their own elderly and pensions.
Wow, instead of showing us the China vs. USA debt you show us China vs. Advanced Economies average? It’s almost like that was changed to distort a very crucial part of this thesis.
Innovation and creativity have been the most important driving forces of America since its founding. They are also factors that cannot be taught, and can be learned only with extreme difficulty. They are, however, embedded in American culture. I can't see any reason for this changing in the immediate future.
Yes, Innovation is key to American success, whereas, absorb, acquire & theft, has been China's way. One only has to look at micro CHIPS , to realize the technology limits , within China today. Then China struggles with important Engineering areas; such as Jet Engines ( their Metallurgy is substandard ).
@@dallascopp4798 not when the USD is reserve currency lol. We had 2 months of 5% annual inflation due to supply shortages. The data shows stimulus had almost no effect on inflation.
100 U.S. Dollars is worth 644 Chinese Yuan. Why is that you suppose? It's because wealth is different than how much cash you have. Wealth comes from how much value you maintain. The exchange rate of a nation's currency compared to other nations reflects that. The U.S. has a lot of cultural flaws, but it still maintains a lot of value. Europe also maintains a lot of value as 86 Euros is worth 100 U.S. Dollars. It's not an exact way of seeing value, but there is an influence on currency value by overall value. Which is probably why nations with a lot of high technology tend to have a more valuable currency. As far as printing goes that is mostly to increase inflation in order to avoid disastrous deflation. It does seem like funny money, but it does exist reliably as a reflection of overall wealth. The printing actually makes people less wealthy because inflation devalues the dollar which makes purchasing power go down. But if printing is carefully timed it can prevent, or help resolve a recession by avoiding deflation.
The military difference in just the conscripts and amount of time spent on political things a lot of people forget. This isnt to say they cant fight, but to imagine spending a day or so a week getting into the politics of biden, trump, dems, or Republicans in the Marines is just unthinkable to me. I couldnt imagine. This isnt to say we dont waste time on stupid shit, we do. But its never ideological things in a political sense, like party politics. Theres woke and similar meetings unfortunately, but not a weekly or daily amount of time like that. A good example of the problems with this as far as the chinese was a little bit ago up in the mountains the indians and chinese got into some hand to hand on the border. The indians beat the shit out of them to the tune of 3 or 4 times the dead on chinas side. It was bad enough they passed a law about it being illegal to report on casualties and events without permission. They claimed that was a lie about the loss. Then a video of it surfaced and then the law passing....of course it was a lie by a group that then tried to hide it. They are nothing close to that which they attempt to potray.
The US military probably spends a workday a week shamming off, but at least its salvaging morale if not building rapport with your buddies in the unit. Unlike some classroom lecture on Maoist doctrine that is useless trivia in combat, and likely just propping up a facade of loyalty because you really joined the PLA for the job perks and not necessarily the Party.
While I agree with some of the points mentioned in the video, I also think it's gross oversimplication of the China's development and strategy. Evergrande example fits well with western narrative but even US had the Lehman moment during the 2008 economic crises. You are comparing apples with oranges. Comparison should be made around the context of socio-economic and political situation and not merely on delusional data.
I wouldn't be surprised what is happening with Evergrande is happening with all there construction companies. Remember it took about a year for Lehman's to fall. And the whole thing blow up
The difference is if the USA has a financial crisis the whole world will be affected in like in China case, stock markets will take a hit for like about a week
He could have done more with using population data, but people lose interest when you introduce math. He mentioned average net worth in the US which was heavily skewed and should have used median vs. average ...but the point is not lost.
@@markknackstedt I hate spouting sources and saying, "oh just look here for something more objective" because in that case I am really not contributing anything to it. But it pains me to do that very same thing now since the topic is so vast I cannot type all or even a part of it. I highly recommend checking out 2 sources. Polymatter has a series on China, titled, "China's reckoning" and CaspianReport has innumerable videos all depicting the proper geopolitics. They are much more educated and unbiased takes on everything concerning China and SE Asia
Happy to live in America and very grateful, and can't stand anyone who's not living here that's not grateful and willing to contribute to this society. Many foreigners would do quite a lot to live here, yet I see young ungrateful Americans everywhere.
Living in China, I can vouch for their inefficiency. Your typical restaurant will have more servers than customers. When you sit down at a table, they give you a menu, stand there, and wait for you to order. Yes… without giving you single minute to look through the menu, they stand there and wait. It is their culture. And it is quite comical to say the least. I like to take my time, going through each page nice and slowly, and just let the server wait there for 15 minutes, doing nothing. And that is exactly what they do. They stand there, for 15 minutes, doing nothing. I dont do it to be an A-hole, I do it in the hope that one day, a server will think to themself… “there must be a more efficient way to do this.” But even if a server does figure out a more efficient way, they wouldn’t dare speak up and challenge the system. They would be terrified to speak up and question the way things have always been done. And this is why they will never overtake the US and become the global superpower. They currently have a leader who has already made a few huge mistakes. But nobody will challenge him or question his wisdom out of fear. They will just carry out his orders without question. Also… chinese do not just pull into a parking space. They always reverse into the parking space. Always. Believe me… this is extremely inefficient. I understand that in some situations you need to reverse into a parking space. But to always reverse into a parking space, just for the sake of reversing into a parking space makes no sense. The logistics of it is extremely inefficient and time consuming. But that is what they do. You can see it in any parking lot. Every car has reversed into the parking space. Everyday, I pray their culture doesn’t take over the world. But then… I look at American culture… and the insanity of it in the last few years, and I realize we aren’t much better.
As many poor signs of an economy China has now, China still has a lot of room to grow, even if it hasn’t been realized, if Americans can live with $60k then I believe the Chinese can get a gdp per capita of at least half of that within a decade or so
thats the basic mathematical equation that americans can't accept. That chinese only have to be 1/3 or so as wealthy as them to overpower them in aggregate. This is why they're so desperate to destroy china, its a race against time.
world isnt big enough nor for commodities they need nor to absorb their exports, they would need to steal everybody elses oxygen to do that, their growth is already just construction inside china, a debt ponzi scheme their exports are going nowhere and if yuan increases or their workers wages go higher their growth will be null, china is reaching their top as far as gdp per capita goes in this present model.
Yeah but growth is slowing and the demographic nightmare is looming. Years of one child policy has resulted in a desperate struggle to have as many babies as possible but it's a no go just like the rest of the region. As this video indicates, things look good for show but beneath the surface it's not happening.
@@welshtoro3256 as bad as those things are given more time to continue with a higher gdp per capita the USA cannot keep its position, or is keeping it at this point (by some measures), though it is not in inaccurate to say that China is a long way off or will never reach the average standard of living an American has
@@optigabe2912 Sure, both countries hide their poverty because it's a national embarrassment. Huge amounts of wealth and an equal amount of desperate poverty.
There's no logical reason for war with China at all, so if we said that China is a colonial country trying to invade other countries, but China didn't pretend to want to liberate the people of the world and spread their democracy, as some others did, they only demanded Taiwan which they demanded since the end of the civil war, and Taiwan most of world doesn't recognize it as a country and it's claim itself as the real China, and the truth that the world will not accept the idea of the two China, secondly If we speak of global influence, China has never wanted to impose its influence and change the world order, all China's leaders have stated they only want to increase their wealth and economic influence only and they never said that they wanted to rival the United States with its bases around the world and its military influence, China is not in its interest at all to fight America, but it is the United States that wants to ignite such a war so that China does not compete with it with the economy, and this is an arrogant act by all standards, and people do not know that the Constitution of the United States does not want China or any country in the world to compete with them at all, and by this logic the United States will fight even its allies and the world, so without China Japan will come and Germany to compete in the ecomny and the United States will repel them as well, So China will not stop its trade and be a backward country so that America would be satisfied
@@johanyeager536 I don't really care about the US, but I prefer US hegemony over china. they may not state their global ambitions but we all know what a super power china could and would do... that being said their actions in the south china sea and their illegal activities worlwide is enough indication of the world where china is the ruling state. do I need to elaborate these chinese illegal activities? If the CCP is willing to coerce democracy and the basic rights of its citizens what do you think they will do to other people that are not chinese? they are already doing it in hong kong and xinjiang. do you think they will spare you? Yes the US is evil, but it is the lesser evil of the two.
@@dmitry5233 wonder how would you feel about india in far future say a 100 years. If it comes to that level..... It's a perfect balance not very liberral country but not authoritarian like china either
@@shreyvaghela3963 I have nothing to say cos I'm not an expert on this subject. I'm just an ordinary person just like you. if you're indian then you know more than me.
@@dmitry5233 China doesn't want to rule the world and enforce its influence like the United States does, China wants the United States to keep the world governed as they want and not to interfere with the affairs of each other, saying that China should not be a world supepowr economically that means stop china trade and export its products which will destroy its economy and to China or any country it's impossible to do so logically, and we clearly disagree with the Communist regim but China does not try to spread communism to the world as democratic countries have done with other countries !! So i don't see any reason to fight with china
When he mentioned millionaires he talked about the as a percentage of population. China has had a half point increase and US 10 times that. The higher percentage of the population that are millionaires means wealth is spread out among more people. They said 9% of US citizens are millionaires (so over 29Mil millionaires), but didn't mention China's percentage. Googled it and they have about 5.3mil out of a population of 1.402bil, so .37%. I think it could be argued that their is a better distribution in the US in this statistic, but a lot more goes into determining wealth distribution.
What would be the American economy without china? If China would cut all the supply of their product to the US overnight, the American economy would collapse almost overnight as well. This would hurt the Chinese economy to some extent but for sure not collapsing.
And what would the chinese economy be without its exports and PRIMARILY what would it have become if it wasnt for foreign investment and a more open market?
If the US economy were to collapse then the global economy will see a crisis not seen before. Forget China Europe Latin America every economy would collapse due to how connected the world is to the US economy.
@@jahbrenpanvilla the world is more connected to the Chinese economy than the American. majority of the countries have china as largest trading partner including Europe.
@fa q That was exactly my point. In reality, the US economy is many ways just added value on top of Chinese goods. What would Apple be without cheap manufacturing in china?
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They closed out 2020 with good data because they manufacturer the numbers too 😏
You forgot to add how all commoditities are pegged to the US dollar and how it benefits the North American market and economy, but that may be left to another video ;).
allright lets bet if US will be no1 economy after 2028.
@@r3dpowel796 Probably will... COVID does not bode well for China's side.
@@youxkio Trust me youtube favour american propaganda. we will have to see if this ex journalist for wallstreet propaganda network is just another Gordon chang.
If a country starts at a low level, then the growth can be phenomenal. In more developed countries, a smaller growth yields greater value.
Not when the country has 1.4 billion people..... literally the population of 14 Russias 14 Japan's 20 Germany's 60 Australias.....when u have that many people,every percent of growth is a feat.
@Hans Otto Kroeger Kaethler how much of the chineses economy is privately owned ?
@@billfurlong4421 It changes a lot over time,but the state owned enterprises account for around 30%,so privately owned more than 50%,others may come from collective ownership
The USA is not in the South China Sea because it cares so much about the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, freedom and Democracy or free elections.
USA is there because of this: "IT IS IMPERATIVE that no EurAsian challenger emerges capable of dominating EurAsia and thus of also challenging America". ~ Zbignew Brzeziński, former national security adviser for Jimmy Carter 🤔
@@olefella7561 Our good old Asia-Pacific region is now referred to as 'Indo-Pacific', and before long it would be called the 'Anglo-Pacific' region.
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Anyone remember in the 80's when everyone in the West was going crazy worrying Japan was going to dominate the world?
exactly what I was thinking
Well the main difference between Japan and China is that Japan's way of life and economy are equal to Western countries. They have quality goods, they are efficient and they politically and socially stable. If Japan's population was just to continue to grow it would have probably surpassed the US. China also has a shrinking population, but everything about their economy, politics and societal structure is far from stable. China is constantly censoring political dissendents, the communist party has fractured and there are two factions competing for power, they are oppressing all minorities and religions, and they are extremely aggresive towards all of their neighbors. Japan is not doing any of that.
@@dallascopp4798 interesting. Are there examples you can provide? To be devil’s advocate, we are seeing increasingly unstable political system in the west. Trump. The Capital riot/insurrection. Etc. Seems like both China and the US are a bit of a mess.
yes. Just relax and dont worry about China. He just like a Japan. GDP will go straight for 20 years from now!!
@@occam5375 The insurrection was mostly theater. And Trump was by, and large theater since he was so ineffective. Contrast that with China that actually makes political dissidents disappear. In the U.S. the capital rioters are getting a fair trial. That's what stability really entails. If someone says something bad about the government, and that someone suddenly vanishes that's a heavy sign of instability if that is the only way to remain stable. Think about it. The U.S. at one time fought a civil war, and that didn't destroy it. Simple conflict is not necessarily a sign of instability.
Japan is the largest _foreign_ holder of US debt, not the largest holder. Fairly important difference.
Yeah a huge difference...vox video explains it well.......
@Wiggles Wiggles Local governments, pension funds, individuals... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States#Debt_holdings
Wtf do you know?
@@BeachSamuraiStudios Ah, an epistemological question! Unusually deep, yet concise, for YT.
I trust the Japanese a hell of a lot more than the Chinese. Michael Pillsbury dug into Deng Xiaoping's 100 year plan to defeat the West. Buying up debt was one of the top priorities.
As for the Japanese, their national Constitution and relative lack of standing forces means they are heavily dependent on the US for their protection. If America is strong, they are safe. If America succeeds, they succeed. The Japanese have a vested interest in seeing the US remain strong. The Chinese only want leverage over us.
I am an American, and currently live in China. From what I have heard and seen, you're pretty well "spot on".
To top it all off your a drain on their economy right now having to keep you under surveillance 24/7. You must be giving them something of value or you would have been gone by now?
Are you still alive? @ronald simons
Are you writing this from a ‘work camp’?
@@danclmb what is wrong with you? There are at least 100,000 Americans in China right at this moment doing business. I doubt China has that big of a “work camp” 😉
I am an American that left China this summer. I don't regret it. I liked my time there, but I was ready to leave.
If China is inefficient, I don't know what even India is.
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ccp invests in china infrastructure, India not so much
@@MajesticOak You are dreaming!! Not in next 1000 years unless Indian fix its dirty "democracy"!
The fact that most of the indian population still wash in the same ditch they shit in means that their infrastructure possibly needs a little work.
As Donnie Trump would say a "shithole"
China had a really good run. Seriously who thought in the 1970s that China would get THIS far?! That’s already a massive victory, even if China has a total meltdown.
@Superior than everyone that's why the British started a war to sell drugs to them lol
@Superior than everyone China is the worst and most backwards country ever, and also racist Af. Way more than the US or other countries. And still has most of its population living on a dollar or less. Every time they announced less poverty they just lowered the threshold. It's all about face anyways.
Simple base effect growth for the first 30 years of that growth
@Kong Jun Jie China will not get anywhere as long as the ccp is in power and wu maos like you get paid.
True
My father works for a company (American) that was contracted by a Chinese competitor to assist the inexperienced Chinese company in constructing a facility, using the American company’s experience. Two things my father noted were that the entire design that the Chinese were constructing was needlessly complicated to generate more labor and jobs, even down to the ways everything had to be welded. The other thing of note was the complete apathy for construction worker safety, and the nonchalance of the Chinese foremen upon hearing of fatal accidents.
I am a Chinese and you are right.
that's becuz of they are Kung fu men; No safety needed.
You're not going to be able to feed 1.4bil people well... some are gonna get dregs... the totalitarian government. Idk... 1.4bil people with complete freedom? China's probably gonna burn from the inside.
Most high ranking chinese politicians have their kids in harvard and yale.
China just wants to be left alone to develop man... they ain't gonna rule the world. But it be cool to see them brawl, light up the skies.
At least a huge wargame. Broadcast. Entertaint us.
This is one of the best explanations of the weaknesses of the Chinese economy I've seen in one video. Great video.
America has many weaknesses, but we really shouldn't be overly worried about Chinese hegemony too soon.
China is doing some things very well. I'm impressed with their long-range planning and especially the idea to become a leader in the new technologies of the zero-carbon future.
You've been bamboozled my friend. Can't credit CCP for long range "planning" while their housing infrastructure is dangerously outdated, not to mention their ghost cities sit vacant and dilapidated. Not very efficient at all. America does have many weaknesses as well, chief among them our growing dependence on central government coupled with reckless, irresponsible mismanagement of the budget and zero accountability for the Federal Reserve - both cancers of big government. When government grows too big, society soon decays.
@@Redditor6079 Agree with both of you. You measure the real force of a society more by looking how it handles national or international crisis, financial ones like 2008, or 2020 with the covid. Not sure the US handled both of them well, there still 50 millions of poor people living with less than 900$/month, and it's probably more. The USA could have done sooooo much better
I like what countries like Germany or France have done the past 40 years, they protect much more their people, and they are still both successful capitalist and socialist economies at the same time, with some weakness of course. But a good combo.
There's a 2012 IMF study, arguing that France and Germany are the best economy in proportion of population, taking also into account social indicators, infrastructures, and they're also the most capable economies to handle a financial crisis.
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True. Terrible failure of US leadership and the cancerous philosophy of neoliberal capitalism. And it's only one of many disastrous failures.
China talks the talk and Americas fool politicians eat it up but to say China has any interest at all about zero carbon emissions is just naive and incorrect. China has currently on the drawing board 420 coal fired power plants it will have built by 2030. Ninety percent of all ocean pollution comes from seven rivers in Asia two of those are in China. When China mines for rare earth it has no interest about the environment. Only a fool thinks otherwise.
"Without data, you're just another person with an opinion." - W. Edwards
Truth👍
He lacks data too...
First of all NEVER underestimate your opponent.
Second, this idiots don't take in account socio - cultural aspects of this nations or the "human capital" as this idiot pointed out.
USA at this point is a total mess, while China is highly determined.
USA cant even figure out each bathroom they should use the "two moms" military add of US says anything you need to know about this problem.
It does not matter if a country is more powerful than the other,if theres no will to fight back US wilL lose.
He did ok , China has about 12 years
If this statement is true, so often is its inverse: without an opinion, you're just a person with data. As management guru Peter Drucker once said, "To get the facts [i.e., data] first is impossible. There are no facts unless one has a criterion of relevance.” In short, without an opinion to start with you won't know what part of the data you should be counting as facts.
I work in defence and id rather not elaborate on that. All of this is economic data missing a key factor. Our own inefficiency. It can take 2 days to put a circuit breaker on a submarine into a safe condition for us to simply turn off a pump on an active military ship to even clean a pump or to tighten a wire. This is because of the red tape and bearocracy brought out by us trying to account for the stupidest person that could possibly be hired. The chinese dont have this problem.
Putting restrictions on how many kids people can have is what really screwed them in the long term of things
Demographic bomb about to go off
Well, there were other issues (their fucked up housing market and piss poor diplomacy doesn't help) but yeah, the baby thing will be one of the biggest nails in their coffin.
@@roythousand13 those are mostly already rich countries that are far better equipped to deal with that problem, tho
And how many highly-educated, highly productive people wish to move into China? The number is staggeringly small. Therein also lies the strength of the West: the best and the brightest move over there -including many of China's own top performers. This allows US to withstand its demographic decline much better.
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.
How can you fail to mention that a major contributor to America's wealth is it's currency being the world's reserve currency.
and the petro dollar
And that is going away very soon!
Industry, foreign aid, and establishment of services as an economic sector is what made their currency the global currency.
@@primeoil4758 and what is going to replace it? Lmao the US dollar is the most stable it’s not going anywhere.
@@deliveryman12 CBDCs. Virtually every nation is developing it and once it's on you dont need 3rd party currencies for cross border trade but use your own CBDC
Keep hanging tough USA much respect from Australia ✊🏻
Don't ever give them coal again, stay strong Australia, respect from the USA
Right back at you Aussie friends 🇦🇺🤝🇺🇲
@@jmoney1410 I hope we don’t ever give them any more coal nor should we they need to stop trying threatening other nations giving them resources isn’t fixing the problem.
@@bridgedavis8989 thank you 😎
@@jamiehorosak3718 agree with you , 💯 percent, they ease your lockdowns yet, take care
Something I read recently that wasn't discussed, and may have a large impact on China. Modern economies progress through a predictable cycle, one of the biggest aspects of this cycle being a huge increase of manufacturing output, to the point where that nation dominates in that area of the world economy for a period of between 40 and 50 years. This pattern occurred within the UK, the U.S., Japan and France all at some point over the last 150 years. China which saw a huge increase in manufacturing beginning in the 1970's is just coming into period where this cycle begins to show a slowing in manufacturing output in a maturing economy. More than likely this pattern occurs as labor and material costs increase and production is rotated into nations with lower labor expense. More than likely this will be India and Africa in the coming decades filling this aspect of global manufacturing capacity.
China knows this, this is why they are investing heavily in Africa.
USA manufacturing started to buy materials from China to sell their products. Later they outsourced their operations to China, and bugger the USA workers. However, The shareholders and big boys still get their wealth. Such is Capitalism and the naivety of the brainwashed masses. Shelf life. Now on the decline and soon out.
Sweden was in a similar position after WWII, it was one of the last intact, fully operational economies in Europe and had the ability to produce massive amounts of wood and steel, this in turn let the mainly social democratic government reform the national and implement all the social security systems it has. The growth of the Swedish economy from 1945 well in to the 1970's-80's was nearly unprecedented but then.. Well today Sweden is trying to reforge itself in to a modern service based economy as most of the industry has shut down.
South east Asia first then Africa i.e. Indonesia Vietnam Bangladesh Cambodia Thailand Malaysia etc
@@dailytact1370 Sweden will be islamic in 30 years. So it doesn't really matter.
Wise man say, if nvidia factory not currently on fire, nvidia factory will be on fire in near future.
I heard some Seth in here.
Nice reference, fellow guildsman
Good. American hegemony is FAR from perfect but the prospect of a world made in the image of China's Orwellian surveillance state is the stuff of dystopian nightmares.
American hegemony is not really a thing anymore outside the Western Hemisphere. Regional player have slowly been gaining momentum on the world island.
@Christopher Meisner I think the overestimation comes from the US Navy having more than half the worlds super carriers along with 10 jump carriers. So the US is completely capable of closing out sea lanes for an extended period of time if it really wanted to. Other than that then I’d agree. Although I don’t think we’ll swallow you guys up any time soon lol.
@Christopher Meisner Canada is a good neighbor and trading partner. Very stable government they don't commit ip theft.
It's always better to have a "world police" nation that is more powerful than the others but not too powerful to take over the world. And the US doesn't want to take over the world because it's a democracy - governments change every 8 years (at max) and so does the national course
@@IpSyCo the us navy does have a good chance in countering the chinese navy since the usa basically has more experience than china itself
If you look at history (the past hundreds of years), China, and also India, had been the biggest economies of the world. But had never been able to project this power beyond their borders. Like European countries were able to do. Having a huge population has the benefit of making you the biggest economy, but the curse of keeping your power firmly within your own borders.
this time everything is different.
You need to acknowledge “Unrivaled” by Michael Beckley. Nearly everything you said came straight from Beckley’s latest work. Not mentioning his work, not even once, is intellectually unethical.
Because nobody challenges them when they do this until now...
Thanks for bringing this to light!
China was following friedrich a. hayek while America follows john maynard keynes. It should be the other way around.
According to this video Switzerland should be the world superpower. After all it's even more efficient and wealthier than America. America isn't and hasn't ever been the wealthiest or most efficient economy, because you don't need to be in order to be the most dominant. And the part about the Chinese military was dumb because China doesn't even aim to have global military parity with the US - they only want to be able to fend off the US in their own backyard. They're literally behind Azerbaijan in military spending per capita, while the US is second in the world (just behind Israel) lmao! They pretty much invented a narrative for China in order to deflate it. The only valid thing this video pointed out was China's impending demographic difficulties, which is hardly news to anyone.
Or they just aren’t unique concepts
If ya spent 7 days touring China you would. Realize everything is cheap, even the shiny skyscrapers are cheap. It’s a paper dragon.
Hope the aircraft invading Taiwans airspace are cheap and cheerful
@@oldgreybeard2507 If it attacked it would be shot down in 1 minute
@@oldgreybeard2507 why would they be cheerful?
@@luiso2166 because it can be countered
A lot of their buildings are structurally unstable.
How a country perceives itself and its capabilities may be more worrying than what it is actually capable of doing.
If by worrying you mean important, I agree completely.
Thats an Indian thing. China Sets goals and a period and it usually achieve those goals before the period even ends...
@@xila-man8249 China's remarkable economic success has come at the cost of environmental destruction, social unrest and personal freedoms. The CCP is so afraid of free thought that you'd be breaking the law just by reading this if you live there. It's breathtaking corruption at the highest levels of government is staring down a huge, cheated, lied to and pissed off underclass,. Toss in a real estate collapse and there's your revolution... again. Good luck.
@@bardigan1 Buddy you don't have to waste your time with me by selling me your Anti - Chinese propaganda sentiment... I follow China thoroughly both from Western bias news and Chinese media news as well. And I had come to learn never to take anything the Western Media say about China seriously...
@@xila-man8249 I'm not anti-Chinese, I'm anti any system that thinks it's more important than the people it represents. You were the one extolling Chinese economic successes, I just pointed out the costs they've paid to achieve that success. It's not sustainable. Don't confuse that with anti-Chinese.
Always remember history changes everything..the greatest superpowers of today might end up in books in few hundred years- someone's quote
Also the gap between rich and poor in US is going up, it's more scary than that of china...
Did you mean to say "time changes everything"? History is looking backwards, time is looking forwards. You're correct that a country once hegemonic cannot sustain that position forever. Look at all the empires of the past.
This is an insightful analysis. The future is unwritten and anything can happen, but this does show that China has weaknesses.
One thing is certain, leftists/communists, like him, are disappointed; they always side with Russia and China and are against the US.
@Matthew Shields The channel might be pro-capitalists but the bald guy in the video has admitted that he is a left winger.
Even left wing people got to eat.
@Matthew Shields China is more capitalist than anyone else…. It might have a communist government system but their business practice is incredibly capitalist.
@@inflationstation1 Bullshit. China is a communist country using capitalist elements to enrich itself. And it shows It is just the recent crackdown on tech industry and demand for wealth distribution.
@@3s0t3r1c China has seen the mess made over here and China is clearly looking to grow its influence, have a military that is proud to fight for its country and I doubt pissing off the classes that are going to do the footwork in their goals is a good way to go about it.
I don’t know how many British or American service members/ working class you have spoken to lately but the odds of them risking their lives for the quality of life they have is minimal.
I think we’ll be lucky if we don’t see a guillotine set up in Trafalgar Square in the next 10 years.
The aged population dilemma is very true, you can’t imagine how much effort had to be invested just to get married. For starters, poor individuals especially male factory workers will have trouble finding mates because no parents in China willing to give away their precious daughter to a poor bum. As for the bride, they too interested in grooms who achieved the minimum 3 criteria which is Car, House and Wealth. If a men couldn’t supply all of these criteria, then it is unlikely for them to tie knot. Ironically some wealthy individuals can’t pick their lovers, often forcibly sign up with matchmaker by parents who wanted to secure elite family lineage. Worst, even both parents agreed on marriage, the groom had to follow custom such as paid upfront for “bride price” ; giving money to bride’s extended family and reserve seat at the banquet; organising a wedding ceremony that cost a bomb yet enduring the hazing culture during banquet as purported by Chinese marriage. At the end, it left groom and their family heavily in debt let alone discussing about raising kids. But as Chinese custom would tell, parents will again interfere couple relationship which likely coaxing them to produce a heir. These factors lead to breakup of a union and divorce preceded. Another hammer throw into Chinese government works when a survey done in early 2021 indicated 95% of new wed couples refused to conceive a child. The post quickly taken down to mitigate humiliation. From the current situation, if China government did not give tax break for new parents or doing any drastic changes, then its population will keep declining over years.
thanks for your coment, it seems to be worst that we know. For some countries is hard reach higher levels due to their cultureal believes that sometimes are hard to modify or change , specially if the population do not have much access to external cultural influences that allowd them to compare and see ways of living from a different angle.
Wow, China will die off.....all Western countries should be dancing in the street.......but they are not. Wishful thinking does not make it happened.
Is this the one-child policy's revenge?
@@benjesus6571 no, it was the right policy at the time. Like anything else, there will always be consequences. The policy solved short term problems to survive but in the long run there will be different problems that needs tweaking. A lone mountain climber got his hand lodge between a rock. What was his short term solution? It may be drastic but he is able to live another day.
@@vangcruz4442 ok CCP bot…
Ah yes measuring countries by how many millionaires are in the country...
USA, USA we love our rich people... gotta go, the shift for my third job just started gonna need it to pay off my student loan and my medical fees from falling off the stairs last week.
China is destroying its rich, meanwhile the rest of the world is begging for millionaires.
@@jonathanjones3126 The rest of the world is begging for middle class, not millionaires.
@@ArawnOfAnnwn who do you think is paying the middle class?
Usually Millionaires who started successful companies
@@deliveryman12 Ah yes, ye olde trickle down theory of prosperity. How quaint!
Its too early to call at this point, is my thought. Sure China's slowed down their growth and they have lots of problems to overcome that are holding them back.. but at the same time we have a US that seems to be dead-set on destroying its own dominance. Its not really a question of whether China can surpass the US at this point, it seems to be more of a question of whether who will collapse in on themselves first.
USA is already collapsing, Socially, politically, manufacturing, militarily and scientifically. The bully of the world is destroying itself , after doing the same to a hundred countries before. Thanks be to god. Lol
@@simonjones9455 > Thanks be to god
I wouldn't be giving divine approval quite yet. Sure, the US has been a less-than-ideal overseer of the world, but power vacuums don't tend to last long. _Someone_ will take over if the US falls.
So the question can't be "is the US a good steward for the world?", the question must be "would whoever replaces them be even worse?"
And unfortunately, the answer to that question is undoubtedly "yes, much worse". China's foreign relations policy is little different from the US'. Less bombs involved (so far) but that's mostly because they don't (yet) have the military resources to do that. Beyond that, their playbook is almost identical to the US'. And their internal policy is a human rights atrocity at best.
Next in line used to be the EU, but after Brexit they're obviously less of a power in general, but more importantly they've focused inward trying to repair their own problems before another country decides to secede. They have little interest in foreign policy at the moment beyond the absolute necessities of trade and self defense. And even if they stepped up, its not like Europe's got a fantastic history either when it comes to world dominance. Sure the modern EU is a much different beast from the multiple competing kingdoms of colonial times, but that history is still there.
So we're down to what.. Russia? They aren't exactly known for their benevolence either. Though in some ways getting this far down the rankings might be OK to a certain degree - Russia is still classified as a "superpower" but they're a very distant third from the US and China - the control they impose likely wouldn't be fantastic, but at least they probably aren't powerful enough to impose _too_ much on the rest of the world. At least as things currently stand.
And that's about where the list ends. There's not really any nation or group of nations that come anywhere close to the power of those 4. Maybe the African Union will get there some day, but that's probably decades away and they're still constantly on the verge of civil war between various tribes, factions and whatever other demographic breakdowns can be found across those multitude of countries.
But 4 is more than enough. I can't imagine any world where the top four powers all disappear at the same time that doesn't involve them _making_ each other disappear - ie: massive nuclear war. And if that ever happens, there won't really be any countries to worry about anymore. The tiny fraction of us that survives will all be back to living in tribes.
@@altrag
But let me just say this both country has committed human rights issues but it is China in the United States that is not being transparent about such issues. You were clearly just someone who speaks without facts but instead supports one side for the sake of popularity and so-called nationalistic Pride.
Not to mention what China did to my family in which they brutally murdered most of them for speaking out against such regimes. What’s so great about China or the United States when it is the people of individual countries not the government that’s the most powerful at its head.
@@aviatorsound914 Huh? Maybe you misread what I said? China's far worse for human rights abuses. No question about that.
Its their foreign policy - ie: dealing with _other_ countries where China and the US are on similar footing, with the US likely being somewhat worse (simply due to the US' military power - I have no doubt China would happily commit atrocities abroad as well if they had the capability).
There's nothing "great" about either country, but _some_ country is going to be the leader of the world. I'm just discussing the possibilities. But neither you nor I have any say over who will "win" in the end.
@@altrag Wow you should make videos, you are definitely better than this channel. But the dominance of a single superpower is a rare event, it is likely that things will return to the way they were, and the conflict will be between many powers and alliances, and the time of international law will end.
Somehow the US is getting "richer and richer" as the government goes further and further into debt. When you own the money printer and control the global reserve currency, that's a bit of an unfair advantage isn't it?
Not for long.. the world will ditch the dollar and that country sooner than we think
Printing press of other countries are also pretty high, the reason why it remained the reserve currency is because it’s printing at a lower rate.
Ah Chinese bots. Seems they finally noticed the video.
The hare had his great advantage. Yet the tortoise won. Today US has emulated EU by creating wealth from policies. While China has emulated world history by industrializing. The US had their industrial advantage disassembled. If the pen is mightier than the sword. Then who is mightier? Policy makers or makers of both pens and swords?
@@davebauman4991 The USA produces more today then it ever has, with much less people. Look it up. The USA is still by far more industrial then any country.
as someone that's lived and worked in both countries, was in the US military, and has studied and worked at universities in both countries, I can agree with almost all of these points except the ones discussing university. To say that American universities are essentially superior to Chinese ones isn't in the least bit accurate. While cheating is rampant in Chinese universities and individual creativity is not so highly celebrated, Chinese universities are significantly more focused. They are less profit driven so they don't need to feed courses that take away from specialties into the curriculum to the same degree that America has to.
I’m from Russia and I actually like the Gen Ed system American colleges have. It’s nice not to have a limited education, but I can see the issue with taking a philosophy class as a computer science major
@@CleverChina my big qualm is that it actually effectively gatekeeps people that could be great in a specific field from continuing on with their studies, and it makes studying more expensive and take longer.
@@caspermac funny how most of the world wants to go to US universities and not chinas universities
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson I'm assuming you're saying that from the viewpoint of someone that's only experienced university in one country. I'll take what you say with a grain of salt big guy
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson also, what do you mean most of the world? Where in the world have you gotten that information? Where have you been and what have you done there?
I don’t think China needs to be as powerful as the US, but if China can take Taiwan, defend it, and themselves, then they’re powerful enough. That is is what causes concern.
One of China's major goal is to establish an Asia economic system independent of U.S. dollar monopoly, something Japan wanted to do during WW2. Due to colonialism, Western governments hold great influence over world economy for centuries, having an continent free of such influence would allow local nations to trade freely, much like using Euros.
China cannot take Taiwan with out risking war with the United States and is why it has not happened! War is not in either countries best interests nor the world…..
@@adrastoso9727 Any nation whom U.S. calls an enemy but hasn't invaded, is an enemy that could potentially cause U.S. significant damage, such as China, in comparison to Iraq. While U.S. has the strongest army in the world, they are scattered everywhere to maintain control over other nations. If U.S. and China ever fought, Russia would join in the moment U.S. send in the back-up. The U.S. would suffer enough losses that they could no longer maintain the aforementioned control over the world as they are right now, even if it won the war.
As it is, it's far more beneficial to wage battle over economy and media. As difficult as it is to say no to China's economic potential, international media is largely within the control of U.S. and European nations, defaming is far easier than using guns.
@@Cyberium our economies are tied together to make it economically a bad idea to go to war. It is tough to break because all these corporations are making so much money on cheap labor, or at least they used to…. Things are changing and public option has turned on China among everything this video talks about.
People seem to assume that Russia would just come to China’s aid and declare war on America, but that could work against Russian’s interests. China wants lands that Russia holds in support Siberia. The only reason Russia and China are getting along is because of the threat of the United States! In reality China is a far greater threat to Russia because America doesn’t want to possess any of Russians lands while China does!
Also, America has far more allies than China does. China just tends to upset its neighbors are they fear China for good reason including fellow communist Vietnam. In a situation such as a war many countries would try and stay neutral, probably including Russia as well. There are UA-cam videos talking about what could happen in a war between China and Russia; interesting stuff but not in anyone’s interest.
@@adrastoso9727 It's economically tied, yes, and another reason why U.S. would not declare war with China easily. Though, China had been wanting to establish an Asian trading zone with minimal U.S. dollar influences, that works against the agenda of Western corporations, leaving it unchecked would be bad business also. It'd end U.S.'s monopoly of the world, that's what U.S. and its allies are afraid of.
As for Russia, you might be surprised that they very well might come to China's aid, the reason being that if China is defeated by U.S. and subsequently occupied, U.S. military would be right next to Russian border, do you think Russia would allow that? Russia also has high oil reserve, one reason why U.S./Europe is trying to economically oppress Russia to sap it for cheap, which Russia is NOT at all happy about. (Europe pretty much serves U.S. at this point)
And when you consider allies, you also need to consider the ever-present issue of economy. U.S. was the leading economy of the world, it also have military base on multiple nations' soil to present a physical threat, it was easy for weaker nations to choose U.S. over China a few decades ago, for profit and safety alike. However, now that China can potentially provide a more lucrative trade deal, these nations are forced to choose sides. It's not they're afraid of China, what they're afraid of is that they have to choose side between two super powers. Do not for a moment believe that U.S. wouldn't punish its "ally" for their misgiving. None of those nations, including Japan, enjoys having U.S. military bases on them, and each of them are tired of being U.S.'s puppets. Last time Taiwan disappointed U.S., the U.S. ditched the alliance and befriended China. There's no such thing as moral or justice in international politics, only profits. If a war ever happened, how many of U.S.'s allies would actually help out? I bet most of them would wait for the result.
And, do you remember why U.S. and Europe recently want to impose their infrastructure influence on the rest of the world? Because while they spent the past centuries continuing modern colonialism, China actually progress significantly on building its own as well as helping continents like Africa. While Westerners pillaged Africa for resources, keeping them minimal like cattle, China offered ways to build Africa nations in exchange for resources. China must've done something right, or else U.S. and Europe wouldn't be following China's steps, late though it may be.
The most accurate US/China comparison videos I’ve ever seen. Majority of UA-cam videos of China know nothing about China
"For every dollar of exports to the U.S. 55 cent's are components made in the U.S."..... I had to replay that several times, just to make sure I heard it correctly....
Haha. We export expensive wrapping paper. If a chip is made here for a computer, then it is like 95 cents of every dollar. That is a dramatic example, but I’m certain that scenario illustrates the basic concept he’s suggesting. Still..55 cents?
@@300blk3 Do you mean "We", as in the USA???
Aviation components, medical equipment, and agricultural goods of all sorts are some of the things China depends on the US for. That's before considering the education and tourism to Chinese visitors which if considered exports the US has a massive trade surplus on.
As an American it makes me proud that anybody from anywhere in the world can come here, become a Citizen, and be prosperous. You can't buy that kind of soft power.
What about the wall?
Tell that to blacks and native Americans who have been living in hell since America's inception
The Chinese being a prime example. Could be all those students coming home from Uni in the West are giving Xi indigestion. Hence the crackdown on boys bands and foreign tutors.
while they can. the vast majority don't. And quite a few can't even become citizens because of how demanding US immigration requirements are.
@@hughmungus2760 I'm not demanding at all. You have to learn English because that's what language the test is given in.
Surprised you didn't mention 1) increased cost of shipping 2) environmental impact 3) working population demographics.... would think all three (plus reserve currency) favor USA
Nor did the video mention that Joe Biden (who was installed and not elected) is in China's pocket with deep, corrupt and notorious financial ties to his family. All that smiling footage of Joe in this video doesn't even REMOTELY reflect A) how he really is, now (senile and disoriented, virtually 100% of the time), and B) soundly hated in most of the USA. He has no base. There are NO Joe Biden lovers in the USA. Certain people just hated his opponent -- but they do NOT love him.
@@nicko8605 you must not study history. .....all empires of the past also say the same as you. China will rise to power and eventually self destroyed like any empire of the past. U.S is in the process of destroying itself. U.S is so powerful that no country can destroy it but from within, like most people will die of cancer.
@@noahhyde8769 That is true, the Lizard people who are really controlling the world have installed Biden into position.
@@noahhyde8769 dude u crazy
@@noahhyde8769 trump has brands and money in China 🇨🇳
I'm from US and I know that our status is mainly from having a working relationship with so many countries and having the best allies on the planet.
US status is mainly due to its militar and financial power, as well as its colonial history and its constancy of purpose to be the imperial successor to the UK.
@@mbsaizvega907 Well, duh... It is the biggest military and financial power in the world, and your theory is that is where it's status comes from? And it has not occupied one singe country with imperialism. In fact, it has left every country it ever occupied, even after WWII. Look at what the soviets did after WWII and the countries THEY occupied. The US has kept the ocean free for trade, provided everyone with free GPS, always render aid after disasters, etc, etc. You want to be a hater, but your logic is full of holes.
@@noahway13 US have invaded and occupied many dozens of countries, and It has military bases all over the Earth. It IS an Empire whether you like it or not.
It's funny that you say that I express hate for saying that, because the video and almost all the comments understand it that way and are proud of it.
@@b.s.5239 What do you think Russia or China would do if they had the might and capabilities of the US and NATO ? Talking of manifest destiny? Go back thru time and see what has happened when one country entered another, how many of them took care of business (catching Bin Laden) and departed? No country did that ever until WWII, and Russia tried keeping it's new possesions. If you think every country in the world has the US afraid of it, that is why US is not attacking, you are legit crazy. And the US will leave is asked to. For one, they abandoned their big base in Philippines when asked. They gave back the Panama canal for ZERO. Etc.
@@noahway13 The US has occupied dozens of countries, has organized hundreds of coups, has committed genocide every day since its founding, has killed millions of people by weapons, starvation and other methods...
Fear has a lot to do with the friendly attitude of so many countries. People want to stay alive, Keith
And avoid if possible drawing the attention of the United States
US advantages: It is an immigration magnet and attracts top talent all over the world also English is widely spoken so immigrants can integrate easily and contribute.
US disadvantage: Democratic processes sometime leads to more in-fighting and pandering to voters than pushing unpopular policies that solves economic issues.
Chinese advantage: A large population and lower cost. A strong educational system with many more engineers and scientists produced. Single-party system can plan very long term economic policies as well as push for unpopular policies.
Chinese disadvantage: A poor immigration magnet, still not an attractive place for people to stay or immigrate (also difficult to immigrate). The Chinese language is not widely spoken thus it is difficult to attract talent to China. Rapidly ageing population with a large healthcare and pension risk in future. In short, what Japan is facing now is quite similar to what China is facing. Finally, a single-party system is not fallible as we can see that their economic policies are faltering.
I would say their (current) economic policy's are not just faltering but will cause a retraction or recession in China, the biggest factor in China's growth was the adoption of a capitalist economy however capitalism and communism are two incompatible systems and for one to flourish the other has to eventually go, China has mostly avoided that choice by having special economic zones and keeping the CCP mostly out of the equation however with the rich elites getting richer and the free flow of information necessary for innovation it was eventually going to bring to light it's gross inefficiencies and put pressure the CCP run government to reform.
What did happen was Xi and his back to the future 'Mao is the best!' crack down, under Xi the CCP is reforming the economy and it's people so as to not threaten the CCP which means good bye to capitalism in China and back to a mostly planned economy and it will be 'that' which will be the driving force to the growing gap between it and the US.
The Language thing is changing fast though. I know that on our school Chinese was taught the same as French or German (you have to pick 1 of those three to graduate in).
China is absolutely a better country than AmeriKKKa in so many ways, it has better and modern infrastructures, cleaner and safer cities, you can hardly see thrash or garbage on the sidewalks or streets, there's no homeless people living in tents defecating and urinating the sidewalks and streets, used syringes are also scattered EVERYWHERE, AmeriKKKa is a disgusting place to live in, a literal sh*thole. 😁
Very good. Thank you. But you missed one key difference. USA is intrinsically selfish. China is intrinsically community and Nation before self. That’s a huge rudder on what can and will be done. USA can’t even control Covid. Ditto selfish countries that essentially glorify democracy where even village idiots can vote......
@@BLAZE-sj6lf better infrastructure? Havent u heard about the blackouts across 1/3 or the country? What about all the tofu buildings? What about all the fake and tainted food that is sold through out china? How is that safer than the US countries? Some food getting tainted with opium. Instead of syringes its added directly into the food? How is that safer ?and lets not forget that China exports fentanyl to drug dealers. Trying to get westerners addicted to it. the CCP has no morals and are very racist towards foreigners in China. ua-cam.com/video/GYr87XCAa48/v-deo.html
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The US: Protoss
Europe: Terran
China: Zerg
Except US is using China and China holds huge part of US external dept
@@Gastell0 when you owe the banker 1M, the banker has leverage. When you owe the banker 1B, you have leverage.
@@Gastell0 The US holds more of China's debt than China holds of the US.
My life for Aiur! Adun Duridas!
It's a shame they destroyed all of the cultural history and artifacts at the start of the whole thing.
last time I check forbidden city is still there
@@amos325 forbidden city is a drop in the ocean if you know the amount of history and artifacts destroyed.
@@amos325 wu Mao alert, this Amos is a paid ccp shill, who in their right mind would take this as an argument ahahah, so if every cultural site in France is destroyed but the Eiffeltower then its fine?
what about native american? any shame in that?
@@jianhuang2293 what aboutism is your strong point. Okay then so what about the people who died from hunger in China (millions) how about the uighurs genocide. What happened In the past cannot be changed but we can learn from it hence why western countries don't do genocides anymore contrary to the nazi ccp
I like how even though you're literally half-rapping with how fast you're talking I can still understand and follow your talk. Usually people who speak with this tempo are pretty hard to follow. Literally almost thought I was in 1.25/1.5x speed for a moment
Smooth brain
I'm not a huge fan of the US, but given the choice between them and China for the World's superpower - it's a no-brainer
Well said. All fun and games aside China is way worse
yes coz US brings wars and makes many ppl die across the globe
@@wayne1516 The US might be a nicer place to live, but it's a far worse country to have as world superpower. The US has only served itself and its allies well - for the rest of the world it's been disaster after disaster after disaster. Their foreign policy has been destructive and hegemonic, much like their British predecessors. China hasn't been to war in decades, and even the wars it did launch all those decades ago have killed far fewer people than America has even in just individual wars.
@@ArawnOfAnnwn nope China is worse as a super power. The fact that you feel you can type bad things about US on UA-cam without fear of censorship proves that point.
@@wayne1516 Lol no! That you make such a big deal out of censorship while discounting millions of deaths in so many wars is telling of just how warped your ideologically inclined thinking is. And the censorship you posit won't even be a thing to begin with, because you people literally invent doomsday narratives to fuel your paranoia. China doesn't even aspire to have that level of global control - it literally views it as an unaffordable and idiotic expense. This video makes the same mistake when it talks about the Chinese military versus the American one, pretending the Chinese are gonna have massive blue water fleets like America does. In reality China is 58th in the world in military spending per capita, behind Azerbaijan lol! America is second, behind only Israel (Russia is 25th, for context). And this despite America being in a far more secure geopolitical position than China or indeed most countries in the world are - that shows how militarist they are that they spend so much anyway.
China has better things to do. They want security of their region, which means being able to beat the Americans in their own backyard. Beyond that, they'd rather focus on economic programs both locally and internationally (like the BRI) as a way of exercising power. You're making the dumb assumption of a binary choice, as if China is just gonna take over America's role if it becomes the big kahoona. Hardly.
And UA-cam is an American company, which means China will never have much control over speech on here - pretty much only as much as Google allows it to, in order to get access to the Chinese market (in other words, the same situation as today). So I'm hardly afraid of censorship on UA-cam if China succeeds, as they simply won't have the same level of hegemony. Indeed they won't even have hegemony - they'll counterbalance the US.
Now YOU prove your point. America has way more blood on its hands than China does thanks to its endless foreign wars - something China can't even do in most countries even if it wanted to. Preferably without falling back on a half century old dead man who still didn't kill via foreign wars. There are broken countries all over the world thanks to American hegemony, so kindly drop the self-centered whining about speech online and deal with the corpses. Cos all that vaunted free speech and democratic accountability still hasn't stopped the US from constantly going to war everywhere, despite having had decades to do so. While authoritarian China hasn't been to war in decades.
Very interesting fact based analysis. My only comment is that when you talk about retired population you show some Japanese happy pensioners. The rest is great
@@nationalistfanatic6291 Yes, but do you know why China has fallen in the first place that led them to communism ? Its also because of the White Men who wants tea 🏴 (Great Britain, England)
@@nationalistfanatic6291 no??? Are you dense??? My point is, that if not for the British selling freaking opium to the chinese populace at the time (marking the beginning of Century of Humiliation) it could be different just like japan, (but they aslo did not industrialized, so its kinda their fault). The fall of the qing dynasty is because of the "White Man" i did not even said the the chinese people are lesser idiot
@@nationalistfanatic6291 you also said that if it werent for the white man they would be eating grass right now, right??? If China is a democracy it would be like Taiwan (Originally Democtatic Republic of China)
@@thequandlecultiston3157 man just ignore china just ignore it.I meant i just say china isnt that scary tbh and its just boring to see about
USA USA USA
The Chinese growth strategy was simply to grow as fast as possible without consideration of regulating and developing industry, safety, and legal issues. The easy part of fast growth in China is over, because the wasteful creation of redundant unused assets is prohibiting further growth as inefficiencies in China become more and more a factor in restricting all forms of what a self sustaining economy does.
If that is true, how can China possibly make the high speed train of high efficiency and high accuracy that US can't even dream about？
@@Lee-Van-Cle The specialty of high speed train technology is the domain of the Japanese and not of American technology. They stole the technology and everyone knows about the incident, because there are articles and statements by Chinese economists that gave their opinion about the situation. If you don't want to read Japanese protest news about it, Fortune magazine has articles about the overall timeline and occurrence of the event.
@@fturla___156 You sounds like Trump and your claim is based on fake news. Starting from 2004, China bought both the train and technology from Japan, and then Germany.
Then she developed the Chinese system with her patented technology.
There was never any complaint from the Japanese and German company, as the deal was lucrative.
The rule is simple, like Trump said: If you don't like, just leave. Similarly, if it is unfair, don't trade with China.
Take it or leave it, the choice is up to you, But bear in mind that foreigners are no longer entitled to sell opium in China now.
@@Lee-Van-Cle You don't have any back up to state your claim. And on top of that, you just proved in your second statement that your first comment was wrong. LOL - I'm wondering if you are going to delete some or all your comments just to hide? Most people do, when they find out that other people realize that they are either stupid, incompetent, lying, or any combination when the mistake is obvious. Maybe you still don't know? LOL
@@fturla___156 I don't need any back up, as there was no such claim of Technology stealing from the companies Kawasaki and Siemens. The burden of proof is on your side, and you are the one supposed to hide.
BTW, You are right that the domain of USA is not in Infrastructure, namely, Build Back Better, but blah, blah, blah, as the Swede put it.
The domain of US is to make homeless people, both inside or outside the states.
Number of Homeless, American First! My Congratulation!
At the 11 minute mark you talked about the aging Chinese population, one thing that is constantly being over looked is the huge population drop that China will experience in the next few decades. The one child policy (1 child to 2 parents will result in a huge population drop) combined with the tendency of favoring boys and you end up with some cities with a 10:1 ratio of men to women. Also, currently China is on the verge of a nation wide famine. China long ago out grew its ability to feed its own population and they are unable to import enough food to meet its growing needs. This is why they tend to eat "exotic" foods like bats, not because they have a taste for it but because they have to eat whatever is available. Wild game is nearly extinct in the Chinese country side and the coastal waters have been severely over fished. China is truly on the verge of collapse. If famine does take hold before the population drop it could mean war with its neighbors as they try to seize resources (in this case food rather than oil).
This was a summary of Michael Beckley’s Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World's Sole Superpower.
If China is so good, Why millions of ethnic Han-Chinese escape from China to Uyghur East Turkestan, Tibet, America, Europe, Latin America even Somalia ? ... Why so many Chinese are dying in on their way escape from China to other countries ? . . . If China is so good, Why China's Uyghur organ harvesting is going on, Uyghur genocide is going, Tibetan genocide is going on, Southern Mongolian genocide is going on ? . . . Why China cannot produce enough food to feed over 1.4 billion citizens ? . . .
@@victoriaalton4940 it can, but keeping the conquered regions weak is good for the CCP.
@@victoriaalton4940 lmao this is so wrong on so may levels. Okay you want to make a point about human rights in China, point taken, but all your facts are wrong lol if China controls xinjiang, how would "escaping to" there be any better? it doesnt even make sense logically lol
And it's a fact most ppl refuse to digest
@@victoriaalton4940 this is just pure idiocracy lol, china has a lot of moral flaw and of course and CCP have a really bad image, but millions of Han Chinese fleeing the country? Well not sure about that 🤣 can't feed 1,4 billion of their people? What time is it now 1970? , can't deny the uyghur geno part for sure, but never ever heard about tibet genoc, are you pulling that out of yo ass?
30 years ago nobody talks about China, now every news agency and US government everyday China China China.
Lmao because they had an economic boom like Japan did. Japan was thought to be the next superpower and was talked a lot as well.
@@theobserver3753 Lmao 🤣, eurocentric eh?
@@theobserver3753 japan could not be a super power because of small land mass with the population of only 8% of China.
@@theobserver3753 your analogy is flawed
@@BLAZE-sj6lf Japan would always be a regional power, but never one to rival the US. This is because Japan has pretty much operated as a US vassal state after the Second world war. The US would not allow such potential to be reached for anyone else.
Chinese army beats USA for synchronised marching. They’re number 1 in that at least.
North Korea: *ahem* did somebody mention synchronized marching?
That's because US troops learn how to better fight wars, not how to march to catchy songs....lol
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We have 37 year old mothers apparently completing Ranger School, maybe they can boost our synchronized marching.
@@chobai9996 Like they did in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan? If you can't even meaningfully control those third world countries through military occupation, you're not gonna win a war against a much larger and powerful country, like China. And any war with China will be fought on Chinese turf in the sea or in Taiwan, which makes it even more difficult.
Good video, the only thing I would have done differently is made the graph of the population over 65 year old as a percentage of the population, not in absolute numbers. That's a bad way to compare two countries with vastly different population sizes.
Interesting video, however for your credibility I believe you should be consistent in your presentation of data. For example, the video showing population over 65 years old (11.09) should be adjusted for population, my impression is that the graphs which supports your narrative are adjusted for population. I really hope VisualPolitik can remain as objective as possible in its videos, as I enjoy them a lot, therefore I wanted to mention it when I see traces of divination to this, as if I get it diverging to much would make me value your service less.
Have a good day,
Came to the comments to say exactly that!
This doesn't really change the fact though that China similary to many western countries suffers from a rapidly from an aging population aswell as its population growth declining sharply due to the long held 1 child policy. How this compares to the US is questionable but in addition to this you have to considere what has been said about its efficiency in general.
Balance of payments?
External debt?
FDI growth?
The US only owes money in USD so the debt isn’t really as big of a problem as a lot of people make it out to be. I’m interested to see what the future of China’s FDI looks like after the recent crackdown on tech companies and the Evergrande situation.
Have you seen how much debit the Chinese government is in? Around 5 trillion USD
Foreign holdings are around 6-7 trillion USD, 1 trillion owned by china. But since this government is thirsty to print money with the initial 3.5 trillion giveaway (upt to 5 in the near future) that 6-7 trillion will be worth sh..t when the dollar hits the bottom.
Is it my impression or is this video based on a long series of clichés, unproven data, economic theories of the barber shop and a little bit of a little benevolence towards the friend who always gets out of trouble?
We only lack corn-dogs and bacon as the healthiest and most nutritious food in the world
No man, I think you're right. This video was mostly quack interpretation. Broad subjective statements backed by questionable metrics.
I mean, China will probably not surpass US. I can believe that. But this video said nothing to convince me of that. Only maybe the military+pension part.
Polymatter made a much better video series about China's problems.
This video was half baked. I think they made the title and then stitched together random data to make it sound credible.
China's over in terms of its rise. It will remain poor. No population has ever peaked before developed status and no population without freedom of speech and press, let alone habeas corpus, jury trial, stable democracy, property rights ever becomes wealthy, cultured or developed.
you know UA-cam videos can monetize themselves and boy they are running a very good business right now
@@richardwills-woodward I doubt it this is probably CIA propaganda to be honest.
@@underdogtv2855 Economically speaking, true. China now becoming aggressive because it will lose the economic battle. Straight out of the authoritarian dictator's textbook of what happens in later stage regimes of such types.
A well throughout and excellent video, really gives you a new perpesctive.
China understands its limitations and its weaknesses. This is why they pushed so hard to become the dominant power. Geography, government structure, and an aging population is what will ultimately bring the country down.
@fa q wumoau.....speak louder, the CCP didn't hear you so you can get $$$$
@@AntAntL stay mad while China stays winning
@@sleepyjoe4529 Hope Xi sees this, bro
@fa q Well, the only chinese on youtube from china Are wumao, unless you're using an illegal VPN then thats - social credit for you.
@fa q that's about .20 cents for today. Keep it up, you might make as much as a uyghur in xinjiang does in one year. Maybe you should post about that....why don't you?
Efficiency Comes with Time and Experience
And Capitalism.
not really... experience and being at the top can easily lead to the sloth that Margaret Thatcher hated, though in her rush to make things more efficient, she destroyed the advantage that the UK had... carefully made machinery that was over-engineered, could be repaired and was long lasting. Sadly, and ironically, I think she played a large part in the West's decline, certainly to that of the UK.
@Moon Shine but is it great? It's all relative. I visited the place, and as Oscar Wilde said "I went to the US expecting little and ca,e back disappointed". A few great people, but a lot of uneducated, paranoid and boring (both in the sense of worldliness as well as classical education). I'd love to have some freedoms and space the 'septics' have, but I'd hate to live there - not for all the money in the world.
So everyone in UA-cam are experts in economics and China. Bravo 👏!
I completely agree with you but that is the nature of Social Media.
He ripped off the analysis from a professor, but it's not that hard to figure out China. You have to spend to feed 1.4B people.
The DATA is valid lol 😂
The Rabbit still say to himself...
"I am still more faster than the Turtle... Lets take another nap..."
"I am far ahead"...
Nothing to worry...
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Good.
There’s more to power and influence than just having a lot of money. The US established relationships and standards decades ago that will allow it to remain in power for years to come. The CCP is going to have to loosen its desire for absolute control to become a fully developed country and to also obtain the level of influence they want.
I think they should apply a system similar to Singapore. It’s a completely open economy with clear guidelines, but essentially has only one party in control. This starting point would allow other countries and companies to want to adopt their ideals, currency, etc. In other words they should aim to apply soft power.
Everything you said here is trash
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?
@@elokabenson8921 are you gonna give your reason for saying that?
actually, ccp has defects, but it is not as brutal as western media hypes...
Singapore is what the CPC wants to think it's leading China toward, if it conveniently ignores that S'pore:
1) is a democracy where the dominant party accepts the results, even if its popularity fades;
2) is overtly and inclusively multicultural, not trying to Sinicize its citizens;
3) admittedly relies on foreign immigrants for much of its basic activities;
4) doesn't present a territorial threat to its neighbors, despite its superior military;
5) literally cannot survive without open trade access, and works constantly to build real trust among as many nations as it can; and
6) cracks down on even perceived corruption among its officials and enforces well defined laws dispassionately with everyone in its jurisdiction, not vaguely and selectively out of political convenience
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I always doubted that China would overtake the US, this video explains it in very simple terms. Thanks a lot, mate.
ua-cam.com/video/65N5ouukO6w/v-deo.html
I do really think people over estimate China's place as a "super power". A few extremely important things people overlook:
1. Global reach: former Superpowers like the US, UK, and to a limited degree the USSR have bases all around the world. The US and UK especially have bases in allied countries but also outright own small islands all across the globe from the South Pacific to Indian Ocean to Atlantic.
2. Efficient military: the US and UK have well trained, experienced militaries that were proven in combat. They've fought from the jungles of Vietnam to the deserts of North Africa, to the skies over Europe to the seas of the Pacific and have won many battles and wars for the last few centuries. The Soviets have a similar story of fighting across Europe, Central Asia, and sending soldiers to fight in Africa, Asia, and South America.
3. Innovation: the US, UK, and USSR were global innovators in both civil and military fields. The US and UK fielded some of the first tanks, the first military aircraft, the first armored ships, the first subs, and the guided missiles and bombs. Between the 3 of them they built some of the best vehicles and weapons in any category.
4. Alliances: the US and UK have allies all across the global from Canada to Australia to France to Japan. The USSR formed allies in Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, the Warsaw Pact, and a scattering of South American and African states while also bringing in allies in the Middle East like Iraq.
5. Possibly one of the most important, soft power: countless people outside of the UK and US speak English as a second language, it's the official language in many international organizations, it's the lingua franca of many countries like India, and the language of business globally to the point I've seen people from neighboring or even the same country speak English together if they dont speak the same first language. Many of the top earning movies through history were produced by the US or UK and even many of the movies that werent were often originally produced in English (such as countless spaghetti westerns and other Italian and other European films), and many films or TV shows only become famous outside their original country after they translated it into English. People outside the US are probably familiar with landmarks, different regional cuisines, regional cultures, and regional stereotypes and can even point out many US states on a map and they're likely familiar with US politics and US history and the same is true with the UK. I once saw a Frenchman and a guy from the American South speak French together since the American grew up around Cajuns, the 2 people separated by thousands of kilometers spoke a common(ish) language thanks to nearly 400 years of shared history. Not to mention the fact that you can find people of the same religion (Christianity) the same sect (protestant) and even the same denomination (baptist, Anglican, Methodist) in areas as disconnected as the US, UK, central Africa, and south Pacific.
China cant really compete in any of these fields. Countries like the US and UK spent centuries sailing the world, forging business and cultural ties, and forming alliances. The US helped build or rebuild countless countries before, during, and after the world wars. US businesses kicked down the door of isolationism and turned Japan and Korea from hermit kingdoms into global traders starting nearly 150 years ago. China built power rapidly but they're very clumsy and simply wield their power like a club and try to beat other countries into doing what they want like the US and UK did 100 years ago when that behavior was not only tolerated but the standard practice, but now that subtly is needed China simply hasnt figured it out yet. Despite all their power they're still about a century behind in these fields. China is kind of like Germany before the world wars: powerful, but clumsy and alone due to their behavior as a bully.
@@arthas640 China is not interested in becoming a superpower. China wants to be left alone. It's the West which is worried about China taking over the world.
Nevertheless it's game over.
Yahoo news:
China has beat the U.S. to become the world's richest nation, according to a new report. Key findings: Global net worth soared from $156 million in 2000 to $514 trillion in 2020, making the world wealthier than it was at any point in history.19 Nov 2021
@@snslifestyleorg You can be a super power without taking over the world, even if you count loose allies or countries with similar ideologies then at best the US and USSR each controlled about 1/3 of the world at the peak of the cold war depending on how you count it (USSR had a larger population especially if you count Maoist China but the US and her allies had a larger economy). The only people who think China could take over the world are just a tiny paranoid fringe of alarmists, even if China grows larger then the US that doesnt mean that a majority of the world would turn on the US and ally with China, and that's assuming we never see a 3rd superpower like a more united EU or a stronger India.
China is definitely interested in becoming a superpower and they're extremely interested in expanding influence. The whole purpose of the Belt and Road is to build bases in other countries in the same way the US has done, and at best its also to bring more countries into China's sphere of influence and at worst its to turn them into neo-colonies.
The reason countries build bases in other countries and the sole reason to build aircraft carriers is for power projection and force projection. That's why the British Empire built ports all across the globe, why the US built air bases all across the globe, and it's why the British, Japan, and Americans all built so many aircraft carriers. Aircraft carriers unlike most warship types aren't useful for defense, only offense since a land air base is cheaper and more practical (dont need special tech or special planes, just a strip of tarmac). That's why in WW2 the Soviets and Germany (both building their navies to break blockades and guard their coast) didnt build aircraft carriers while Japan, the US, and British did and also why during the cold war the Soviets built so few aircraft carriers (they were mainly concerned with defending their coasts and could neither afford or required massive force projection).
@@arthas640 That's just a Western thinking. Throughout history China main focus has always been trade. China's military is for defensive purposes. This is different from the West which uses its military to coerce and invade other countries. The BRI is an infrastructure projects to enhance trade.
In any case it's game over.
Yahoo news:
China has beat the U.S. to become the world's richest nation, according to a new report. Key findings: Global net worth soared from $156 million in 2000 to $514 trillion in 2020, making the world wealthier than it was at any point in history.19 Nov 2021
All of the countries of the world are in the same vast casino playing different games and using various strategies. But what they don't know is that the United States owns the casino and that it sets up all of the rules at every table and in every game. And the house not only always wins but it can decide at any moment that you lose.
You're... not wrong, per se...
@@Geofiendlux I spoke with a Chinese banker tonight, well this morning where he is now and he always talks about the main thing the banks fear is American regulations and penalties, and tonight he said the Americans are three years ahead of us in everything. This man trains international bankers and he is very proud. So if he admits three years I think it is much more than that.
@@johnabrams8148 and I completely agree, to your point, I'm pretty sure the US could hypothetically force Chinese banks from servicing even the likes of Xi Jinping due to the US Dollar being the dominant reserve currency.
@@Geofiendlux are you living in the past?
Well the USA has always been the dominant economy in the world being larger than Japan, Germany, the UK, France, Italy and Canada combined. But China’s economy already surpassed the USA in 2014 if you use PPP purchasing power parity instead of nominal terms. China produces more steel and cement than the rest of the entire world. China is investing in AI and robotics. Looks like someone else has opened a casino and is taking customers away from their USA with more favorable rules in every table and game.
As you hinted at when you compare the two powers lists of enemies and friends it is hard to see how China could become the dominant global super power in the traditional sense. At a minimum if the two side came into conflict the US can rely on support from the majority of China's neighbours and the rest of the anglosphere. It has a very long road ahead of it if it seeks to replace the US.
China needs to chill the hell out. They are pushing and pressing buttons of so many other countries which makes those countries band together.
If they'd just take a chill pill and relax a bit on the political side of things they could sit back and watch America fight itself... Instead they lie, cheat, steal, and bind your legs and arm together.
It will be interesting to see their influence in Africa.
The mistake that China made is that they were betting too much on Western/American decline. They should realise that USA is extremely resilient .And it’s the greatest innovation powerhouse because of its ability to attract talent from across the world. China should have tone downed its nationalistic rhetorics and continue to focus on growth like it did in the 90s but it’s too late for that now. Now, they have to readjust.
China is getting to the hard part now. Going from a non industrialized to an industrialized nation is tough. They did this with remarkable speed. Foreign investment and infrastructure spending made them a very good low value added industury base. Cheap labor and great ports and roads. The rate at which it happened may have harmed their ability take the next step to a consumption driven economy though. A rapidly urbanized population tends to have less kids which means it ages quickly. They may get old before they get rich and this can mean stagnation and deflation. The same situation as in Japan but Japan is much wealthier by comparison. Robotics may be able to help with this from a production side but the consumption side is still there.
Look as what they did to Jackie Chan, they turn their people into puppets.
@@jason4275 Actors are puppet with farts.
@Zgnid Olias
China's national rhetoric is not their problem. They grew their market economy and now have decided they want to go back to communism.
And then there is the problem that China has never answered for murdering over 100 milllion people like the Nazi's have.
The mistake you make is thinking they bet on American decline to begin with. You're following the same wrongheaded thinking the video does - inventing a narrative for China in order to deflate it. In other words, straw manning.
Main thing saving USA is being the world's Reserve currency
coming to an end soon
@@alanssshh you think so? any particular reason why?
@@iRoyalpriesthood I guess he's going to talk about oil
@@JohnSmith-oe5rx you also have to consider the adoption of CBDC
it's important to remember that even if Germany is no longer the global phenomenon it was at the start of the 20th century, it is still a stable and vital backbone in the global economy- I don't think China's growth stopping would necessarily be a bad thing, as it might also signify that the country, its political institutions, constitutional freedoms, and standards of living have finally stabilized to that of a first-world standard.
"Hold on , wait a second , . Pass me that joint. Hey , hey , go tell my guy to grab my bag of stuff. Hey , what's that , pull to the left, I mean right. Hey , go wake up the captain , I'm confused."
suddenly GDP isn't the key number here. In all of your other videos you use GDP as the key figure to say whether a country is doing well or not.
Yeah GDP is a key factor, But it isn’t everything. You’d need to break it down a bit more to understand everything.
Well if you have 5x the population, but the same GDP, that means you only have 20% the productivity and wealth per person.
@@mattbowdenuh According to this video Switzerland should be the world superpower. After all it's even more efficient and wealthier than America. America isn't and hasn't ever been the wealthiest or most efficient economy, because you don't need to be in order to be the most dominant.
According to this video Norway and kuwait should be the superpower
@@ArawnOfAnnwn But switzerland has a very low population. That is the issue. If India wants, it can destroy UK in a week but that will internally harm the country too. In reality, only US, China, India and Russia have the capability to survive in the world right now due to the sheer size of its population and the weaponry it possesses.
Well, all I can say is this is the once-in-a-century opportunity for India. As foreign investments in the manufacturing sector had been pulling out of China continuously for the past 5 years, if India can quickly cobble up an improved infrastructure, better policy and less bureaucracy, they can definitely come out on top as the real "next China". There are many advantages India has over China, and I think the most important ones are the upholding of contractual agreement, respect to private properties and a relatively independent judicial system. These are the big issues China never fixed or even tried to.
But I think the window of opportunity might only last for around 10 years. This is because the South East Asian countries are also eager to get a piece of the action. Although they are much smaller than India, but their proximity to the major manufacturing powerhouses of Japan, Korea and Taiwan makes them an attractive alternative. Out of those countries I think Vietnam is quickly coming out on top, but its Achilles Heel will be the communist party resisting reforms, just like the communists of China.
have you ever been to india?? the infrastructure is horrible and the government is incredibly incompetent and corrupt.
@@myfoodishere Well, I live here. What you say is only partly true, and is improving.
@@ranban282 modi celebrating a huge religious festival instead of encouraging people to stay home. then they had to start burning bodies in the streets. thats pretty incompetent and irresponsible leadership. the ganges is full of raw sewage that people bathe in. india is mad dirty bro. it's also incredibly dangerous for women.rape is out of control there. so is corruption. india is not the future mate. lets be serious.
"upholding of contractual agreement" hahaha, let me pick up my ass from the floor
I think the governments of India, state and local are far too corrupt to accomplish much.
As a Chinese，The biggest problem in China is aging，China's birth rate is declining year by year. Can you imagine if there are billions of elderly people in a country? It is becoming a reality！China will not be able to move forward at that time
Of course nonstop growth is never possible, and China will face the same late-stage and post industrial challenges as the US and the western world did, but to say that US remains number 1 forever is a bit delusional too.
I pray to God Xi doesn’t start a war over Taiwan!!
America has been hinting to China that the world’s military will descend upon China if they don’t relax and cool the threats!!
China cannot defeat the United States in a war because America has over 7000 intercontinental ballistic missiles and other thousand station around the world just pointed at China!!
@@BILLEON2005 China is just bluffing over Taiwan - for god sake, it was Taiwan that actually help grind the gears to China developing a free market economy. You do not think the CCP and Taiwanese companies communicate?
@@icysaracen3054
Why do you think China wants Taiwan?
They are the largest producer of semiconductors in the world and China within completely dominate almost every single computerized electrical instrument moving forward and give them a massive military and strategic advantage in almost every aspect of computers!!
If China and Taiwanese companies communicate I assume it’s not in a very friendly manner after all the threats recently from China plus yesterday they flew 57 bombers and jets over Taiwan for 12 straight hours signaling to the world we’re getting ready!!
I think China needs to be careful…
@@BILLEON2005 i don't think Xi exactly cares about what his people think, he'll most likely declare war on the us and taiwan before he dies, and if anything goes wrong he'll just kill himself like hitler had. i believe this because why would china do such a disgusting stunt in the first place? makes no sense.
the inefficiency of central planning will always handicap their economy, just like is it beginning to handicap ours
Well... VisualPolitk said socialdemocracy was dead in Europe and they have just won in Germany, so I better start learning Chinese.
Germany is a dying nation overall.
Yeah Visual politic is fun to watch but I wouldn’t trust a thing they say.
@Vincenzo DeLia Bruh Visual politic used the fact that the social democrats where doing badly in the polls as an example in there video
Actually they were in decline the last years to decades, just as Visual Politik said. However, they won the elections because the other parties (Greens and Conservatives) had horrible candidates running for chancellor. Just look at the polls before the candidates were announced and the jump that has occured after that.
Consider Spanish.
You know what’s ironic it’s been shown that the less impoverished a nation is the lower the population growth so if the cpd actually did it’s job the problem would have fixed itself
The implications are really interesting. An economy cant sustain itself with a declining population. This is the reason for immigration. Not a conspiracy like populists believe. Traditional religious and impoverished countries produce human capital. And more advanced countries continuously skim off the educated and affluent, making it more difficult for developing nations to advance. This is going to have bizarre effects on the gene pool and on culture. China will also need to import labor. Its going to become a nation of immigrants.
@@e.priest8937 Ah, but there's the problem. China is notoriously anti-immigrant, not just politically, but culturally. Right off the bat, outsiders are viewed with heavy suspicion, whether it be from dark days of colonialism, distaste of "western capitalism and values", or just plain racial discrimination. Add to that that foreigners are given few legal rights (foreigners have virtually no path to citizenship) or financial freedom (i.e. foreigners can't buy property, operate a business without Chinese intermediary, it's extremely difficult to acquire a driver's license, etc.) and that Mandarin is rather difficult to learn, and it's very uninviting for immigrants, especially in recent years.
@@QuantumAscension1 how is that a bad thing? Demographic replacement of a country's native population is actually not good. Example: Europe and the US
@@QuantumAscension1 what do you say about Japan, or South Korea. They have very strict immigration laws. You can't become a citizen, ever. Japan even told the UN to fuck itself after suggesting they take Syrian refugees. And Western liberal systems aren't for every people. The failure of the Middle East and North Africa proved that fact.
@@QuantumAscension1 that's false. Green card holders are allowed. China doesn't allow non residents to buy property, unlike the US where the global elite pick up luxury units as investments and tax havens. Houses are for living in, not to park your extra millions of dollars or to speculate on.
There are definitely a lot of reasons as to why China might not surpass the United States of America, however do not let bias blind oneself. The United States is and has been on fragile ground for decades. It has overstretched itself in many ways. Quality of life, access to education or health care, these are things that Americans largely lack unless they are more well-to-do. Sure, if we look at metrics that are largely a show of the wealthiest Americans, it looks good, but that ends up giving a false appearance.
True but America is not unique in that respect. China and many other nations, have the exact same problems.
I found the video biased. How can he say the growth of the 1% in America is a good thing. Most of the 1% have grown their wealth through tax breaks, subsidies, deregulation of the labor market and denial of health care. Like you said China might not surpass the US but most of the indicators he used are totally irrelevant.
@@michaelotieno6524 He's biased but you're not? OK, whatever.
@@michaelotieno6524 Retirees with a million dollars in investments or pensions is not the elite 1% in America. In fact, the average value of a 401(k) held over 15 years is over half a million. That's the average.
(Although one could argue that the figure "one million dollars" is worth less and less due to undereported inflation.)
@@michaelotieno6524 Yes, it is true. However, much of the corruption and preferred treatment is prevalent in most nations. It does have negative impacts and leads to inefficiencies, but to me that actually speaks to some of the strength that the US institutions have held.
A very good snapshot of the current situation. another interesting perspective would be a comparison of the investment each country is making in education, tech, financial centers, reserve currency status, and a few other determinants of power status. How will current investment position each country in, say, 40 years?
Us: I have the highground
China : You underestimate my power
US: "Don't try it..."
china? power? those two don't go together well.
Well, this will quiet some 50 cent army mouths! LOL.
Lol in your dream
China is absolutely a better country than AmeriKKKa in so many ways, it has better and modern infrastructures, cleaner and safer cities, you can hardly see thrash or garbage on the sidewalks or streets, there's no homeless people living in tents defecating and urinating the sidewalks and streets, used syringes are also scattered EVERYWHERE, AmeriKKKa is a disgusting place to live in, a literal sh*thole. 😁
@@BLAZE-sj6lf You give America the label from KKK. Tell me what do you think about black people in China? China is as racist as the KKK!
As long as the world has to buy dollars before it can buy gas there is no catching up...
Objectively, your are right.
Dependency on oil is vanishing, there's a reason why oil nations are looking to liberalise their economy.
Muhammad bin Salman wants to turn Saudi Arabia into Dubai while keeping only mecca & Medina as sort of muslim version of Vatican state which exists similarly in Italy.
It's pretty smart.
enter unlimited US moneyprinting. Either the world gets off the dollar, or the world goes into hyperinflation with the US.
A lot of countries are accepting the Yuan in exchange
@@Dept246 not even China uses their worthless currency when it comes to global investments. They tightened their spending on projects of other countries when they started running out of dollars.
China itself is subservient to Dollars,
It’s good to hear that China’s poverty has drastically gone down. That’s something that China used to get criticized about. I hope one day that the people of India can do as well as the Chinese and get out of poverty too.
If it means lowering the bar on the definition of "poverty" and not really providing the freedom of movement and information needed to break upward, it's not really that much of an achievement.
@@doujinflip China's bar on the definition accounts for their PPP. An apple in China costs way less than that in US. US has more extreme poor than China.
@@doujinflip Still, much less poverty in China nowadays
I dunno...the Chinese still produce more engineers every year than the US *has* engineers.
I worked with Chinese engineers for an international auto exhaust part manufacturing. Lead engineers from other countries gave them an SOP for a process to help pass quality control. Most of the engineers in China that I worked with, failed to follow the SOP and lagged the project for approximately 3 years until I came. Not saying all of them are like that, but I wouldn't sweat. China does come up with innovative concepts but typically fail in quality control
The CCP is full of engineers, no farmers allowed. Can't feed itself.
They "graduated" 15 million from Universities THIS year...12 million are unemployed.
Computer Science PhDs literally run the Chinese Education system. Here in America, we choose our leaders based on their race and minority identity.
University rankings don’t really matter, in here Europe most universities don’t even make top 100 or top 200, but still we learn the same things.
America is far more innovative than Europe though
@@millevenon5853 I wouldn’t say far more, but yes.
@@millevenon5853 Innovative in what, hamburgers?😁
@@darkomiceski3755 yea, thats something they innovate in their sleep
@@darkomiceski3755 Innovative in things that nobody actually needs, like FaceBook
Yes, the percentage of millionaires in the US has risen, but the middle class is collapsing at a far greater rate. The US model is also far from stable and social tensions may rise to an even greater extend. In the long term, neither the US nor China will be as dominant a superpower as the US has been in the past.
Middle class is not collapsing in the US.
The U.S. middle class has moved up to the higher economic classes.
Keep on this path though then it will eventually collapse. Can't maintain this inflation.
Wealth inequality is actually worse in China than the States.
I agree that no country will become as dominant as the USA in 1948, noth without a major global war.
The US is currently undergoing something like the Great Resignation or Renegotiation, with former workers leaving old bosses out to dry in the resurgence of consumer demand as a strategy to finally experience that "rising tide" that's been promised for decades, but was instead dammed away with rich man tax breaks and offshoring.
Well this was a very hopeful video
"Why won't China Surpass the United States?" It has already surpassed it in terms of PPP and it would formally surpass it in 2028
proof
it might if xi jiping will drop his ego and fantasies and it will start shifting back to being capitalistic plus the world organisations ignored chinas overdestructive work towards earth and if china continues this kind of actions their economy will go just as back as it was before big rise of china world is not scared of war world wants to prevent war and if its time for war they will go to war its fighting for life against guaranteed death that gives life meaning. japan is on china and it protected its borders and china is scared of japan and japan has its army and force aimed at china, taiwan will try protecting itself and aukus and india will take care of naval force and war on chinese borderland who knows who else will join and people will not just fight with force but also economically china will colapse unless it wants to become friendly nation minding own business but no china didnt have enemies china wanted enemies. 5years ago it was even unimaginable China against USA.
@@KaiserClone you can just look it up, China’s ppp surely passed USA’s one. Idk what will happen in the future tho
Guess you missed the parts in the video where he talks about over-inflated estimates by their government, the vastly less efficient use of their actual money, the hidden debts, the inferior quality infrastructure and the much greater amount they have to spend on their own elderly and pensions.
Someone wasn’t paying attention to the video 🤣🤣🤣
Been seeing so many clairvoyants on this issue for so long.
No, you need an argument backed by facts.
I foresee there will be many more to come...
This sounds like the same underestimating of China that got the west in this position in the first place. 🤣
how is this underestimating? i think u got ur words mixed up
Show a better data not concocted by the CCP then talk.
this guy watched 20 seconds of the video then left.
US secret: FED Printer go Brrr!
Thank you mate, I learned a lot in this video. 👍
Albert Einstein said, “in the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.”
I think that is an old Chinese saying.
@@garymartin9777 Spacifically wasn't it Bruce Lee? - though of course he was not the first to think deeply about crisis - that goes wayyyy back.
Wow, instead of showing us the China vs. USA debt you show us China vs. Advanced Economies average? It’s almost like that was changed to distort a very crucial part of this thesis.
This video is just so wrong on too many levels
Innovation and creativity have been the most important driving forces of America since its founding. They are also factors that cannot be taught, and can be learned only with extreme difficulty. They are, however, embedded in American culture. I can't see any reason for this changing in the immediate future.
Yes, Innovation is key to American success, whereas, absorb, acquire & theft, has been China's way.
One only has to look at micro CHIPS , to realize the technology limits , within China today. Then China struggles with important Engineering areas; such as Jet Engines ( their Metallurgy is substandard ).
@@1arritechno American and its anglo-saxon descendants are the bigger theft of the world.
There is a gap growing because the states just printed 40% more cash
We control the dollar. We can do whatever we want with it.
@@malignm1857 Yeah, but that mentality just devalues the currency and causes inflation which we are seeing coming into frution now.
@@dallascopp4798 not when the USD is reserve currency lol. We had 2 months of 5% annual inflation due to supply shortages. The data shows stimulus had almost no effect on inflation.
100 U.S. Dollars is worth 644 Chinese Yuan. Why is that you suppose? It's because wealth is different than how much cash you have. Wealth comes from how much value you maintain. The exchange rate of a nation's currency compared to other nations reflects that. The U.S. has a lot of cultural flaws, but it still maintains a lot of value. Europe also maintains a lot of value as 86 Euros is worth 100 U.S. Dollars. It's not an exact way of seeing value, but there is an influence on currency value by overall value. Which is probably why nations with a lot of high technology tend to have a more valuable currency.
As far as printing goes that is mostly to increase inflation in order to avoid disastrous deflation. It does seem like funny money, but it does exist reliably as a reflection of overall wealth. The printing actually makes people less wealthy because inflation devalues the dollar which makes purchasing power go down. But if printing is carefully timed it can prevent, or help resolve a recession by avoiding deflation.
@@spacedoohicky so wrong bro, Japan Yen is 100 per 1 dollar, Korean Won is 1000 per 1 dollar
The military difference in just the conscripts and amount of time spent on political things a lot of people forget. This isnt to say they cant fight, but to imagine spending a day or so a week getting into the politics of biden, trump, dems, or Republicans in the Marines is just unthinkable to me. I couldnt imagine. This isnt to say we dont waste time on stupid shit, we do. But its never ideological things in a political sense, like party politics. Theres woke and similar meetings unfortunately, but not a weekly or daily amount of time like that. A good example of the problems with this as far as the chinese was a little bit ago up in the mountains the indians and chinese got into some hand to hand on the border. The indians beat the shit out of them to the tune of 3 or 4 times the dead on chinas side. It was bad enough they passed a law about it being illegal to report on casualties and events without permission. They claimed that was a lie about the loss. Then a video of it surfaced and then the law passing....of course it was a lie by a group that then tried to hide it. They are nothing close to that which they attempt to potray.
Interesting. Thank you.
The US military probably spends a workday a week shamming off, but at least its salvaging morale if not building rapport with your buddies in the unit. Unlike some classroom lecture on Maoist doctrine that is useless trivia in combat, and likely just propping up a facade of loyalty because you really joined the PLA for the job perks and not necessarily the Party.
That's a good analysis, you keep unfolding the market, through your videos I have been able to understand and make gains from the market
great video! super informative
While I agree with some of the points mentioned in the video, I also think it's gross oversimplication of the China's development and strategy. Evergrande example fits well with western narrative but even US had the Lehman moment during the 2008 economic crises. You are comparing apples with oranges. Comparison should be made around the context of socio-economic and political situation and not merely on delusional data.
to big to fail is universal
I wouldn't be surprised what is happening with Evergrande is happening with all there construction companies. Remember it took about a year for Lehman's to fall. And the whole thing blow up
The difference is if the USA has a financial crisis the whole world will be affected in like in China case, stock markets will take a hit for like about a week
ccp will bail it out and arrest the management
Delusional data ? If you count how many things are in a box, is the number delusional ?
He points out the inaccuracy of GDP, however did I miss which metrics he is using to assess wealth generation/costs/savings etc? Any recommendations?
He could have done more with using population data, but people lose interest when you introduce math. He mentioned average net worth in the US which was heavily skewed and should have used median vs. average ...but the point is not lost.
He meant that per capita the US is still far ahead and the gap isn't reducing.
The world bank and the UN along with the IMF.
This representation was highly inaccurate and a deep level of bias. The presenter should of took an honest and balanced approach
Agreed. It almost seems as if the video title was made before the content
Big channels on UA-cam are all bought and paid for by the 3-letter spy agencies.
Please enlighten me. I know there is bias, but it's very difficult to grasp the true geo-political forces at work. What is a more balanced analysis?
@@markknackstedt I hate spouting sources and saying, "oh just look here for something more objective" because in that case I am really not contributing anything to it. But it pains me to do that very same thing now since the topic is so vast I cannot type all or even a part of it.
I highly recommend checking out 2 sources. Polymatter has a series on China, titled, "China's reckoning" and CaspianReport has innumerable videos all depicting the proper geopolitics. They are much more educated and unbiased takes on everything concerning China and SE Asia
Happy to live in America and very grateful, and can't stand anyone who's not living here that's not grateful and willing to contribute to this society. Many foreigners would do quite a lot to live here, yet I see young ungrateful Americans everywhere.
Living in China, I can vouch for their inefficiency. Your typical restaurant will have more servers than customers. When you sit down at a table, they give you a menu, stand there, and wait for you to order. Yes… without giving you single minute to look through the menu, they stand there and wait. It is their culture. And it is quite comical to say the least. I like to take my time, going through each page nice and slowly, and just let the server wait there for 15 minutes, doing nothing. And that is exactly what they do. They stand there, for 15 minutes, doing nothing. I dont do it to be an A-hole, I do it in the hope that one day, a server will think to themself… “there must be a more efficient way to do this.” But even if a server does figure out a more efficient way, they wouldn’t dare speak up and challenge the system. They would be terrified to speak up and question the way things have always been done. And this is why they will never overtake the US and become the global superpower. They currently have a leader who has already made a few huge mistakes. But nobody will challenge him or question his wisdom out of fear. They will just carry out his orders without question.
Also… chinese do not just pull into a parking space. They always reverse into the parking space. Always. Believe me… this is extremely inefficient. I understand that in some situations you need to reverse into a parking space. But to always reverse into a parking space, just for the sake of reversing into a parking space makes no sense. The logistics of it is extremely inefficient and time consuming. But that is what they do. You can see it in any parking lot. Every car has reversed into the parking space.
Everyday, I pray their culture doesn’t take over the world. But then… I look at American culture… and the insanity of it in the last few years, and I realize we aren’t much better.
Interesting stories.
"But then… I look at American culture… and the insanity of it in the last few years, and I realize we aren’t much better." ---- sad but true :(
I have also noticed that, if you walk into an empty restaurant, they will still try to seat you at the worst table there.
As many poor signs of an economy China has now, China still has a lot of room to grow, even if it hasn’t been realized, if Americans can live with $60k then I believe the Chinese can get a gdp per capita of at least half of that within a decade or so
thats the basic mathematical equation that americans can't accept. That chinese only have to be 1/3 or so as wealthy as them to overpower them in aggregate. This is why they're so desperate to destroy china, its a race against time.
world isnt big enough nor for commodities they need nor to absorb their exports, they would need to steal everybody elses oxygen to do that, their growth is already just construction inside china, a debt ponzi scheme their exports are going nowhere and if yuan increases or their workers wages go higher their growth will be null, china is reaching their top as far as gdp per capita goes in this present model.
Yeah but growth is slowing and the demographic nightmare is looming. Years of one child policy has resulted in a desperate struggle to have as many babies as possible but it's a no go just like the rest of the region. As this video indicates, things look good for show but beneath the surface it's not happening.
@@welshtoro3256 as bad as those things are given more time to continue with a higher gdp per capita the USA cannot keep its position, or is keeping it at this point (by some measures), though it is not in inaccurate to say that China is a long way off or will never reach the average standard of living an American has
@@optigabe2912 Sure, both countries hide their poverty because it's a national embarrassment. Huge amounts of wealth and an equal amount of desperate poverty.
times like these, the world needs a reassurance such as this video. nobody wants a super power china.
There's no logical reason for war with China at all, so if we said that China is a colonial country trying to invade other countries, but China didn't pretend to want to liberate the people of the world and spread their democracy, as some others did, they only demanded Taiwan which they demanded since the end of the civil war, and Taiwan most of world doesn't recognize it as a country and it's claim itself as the real China, and the truth that the world will not accept the idea of the two China, secondly If we speak of global influence, China has never wanted to impose its influence and change the world order, all China's leaders have stated they only want to increase their wealth and economic influence only and they never said that they wanted to rival the United States with its bases around the world and its military influence, China is not in its interest at all to fight America, but it is the United States that wants to ignite such a war so that China does not compete with it with the economy, and this is an arrogant act by all standards, and people do not know that the Constitution of the United States does not want China or any country in the world to compete with them at all, and by this logic the United States will fight even its allies and the world, so without China Japan will come and Germany to compete in the ecomny and the United States will repel them as well, So China will not stop its trade and be a backward country so that America would be satisfied
@@johanyeager536 I don't really care about the US, but I prefer US hegemony over china. they may not state their global ambitions but we all know what a super power china could and would do... that being said their actions in the south china sea and their illegal activities worlwide is enough indication of the world where china is the ruling state. do I need to elaborate these chinese illegal activities? If the CCP is willing to coerce democracy and the basic rights of its citizens what do you think they will do to other people that are not chinese? they are already doing it in hong kong and xinjiang. do you think they will spare you? Yes the US is evil, but it is the lesser evil of the two.
@@dmitry5233 wonder how would you feel about india in far future say a 100 years. If it comes to that level..... It's a perfect balance not very liberral country but not authoritarian like china either
@@shreyvaghela3963 I have nothing to say cos I'm not an expert on this subject. I'm just an ordinary person just like you. if you're indian then you know more than me.
@@dmitry5233 China doesn't want to rule the world and enforce its influence like the United States does, China wants the United States to keep the world governed as they want and not to interfere with the affairs of each other, saying that China should not be a world supepowr economically that means stop china trade and export its products which will destroy its economy and to China or any country it's impossible to do so logically, and we clearly disagree with the Communist regim but China does not try to spread communism to the world as democratic countries have done with other countries !! So i don't see any reason to fight with china
"Modern country" where people need internal passports to live in cities and send their children to city schools!
Is numbers of millionaires a good indication? Can't it be a indication of uneven distribution of wealth?
When he mentioned millionaires he talked about the as a percentage of population. China has had a half point increase and US 10 times that. The higher percentage of the population that are millionaires means wealth is spread out among more people. They said 9% of US citizens are millionaires (so over 29Mil millionaires), but didn't mention China's percentage. Googled it and they have about 5.3mil out of a population of 1.402bil, so .37%. I think it could be argued that their is a better distribution in the US in this statistic, but a lot more goes into determining wealth distribution.
Rich people can start companies easier that means jobs for us non rich people.
"Look at them americans being so... americany"
Look at me! I'm the most americany of all!
What would be the American economy without china? If China would cut all the supply of their product to the US overnight, the American economy would collapse almost overnight as well. This would hurt the Chinese economy to some extent but for sure not collapsing.
And what would the chinese economy be without its exports and PRIMARILY what would it have become if it wasnt for foreign investment and a more open market?
If the US economy were to collapse then the global economy will see a crisis not seen before. Forget China Europe Latin America every economy would collapse due to how connected the world is to the US economy.
@@jahbrenpanvilla the world is more connected to the Chinese economy than the American. majority of the countries have china as largest trading partner including Europe.
@fa q That was exactly my point. In reality, the US economy is many ways just added value on top of Chinese goods. What would Apple be without cheap manufacturing in china?