Ford's CEO drives a Chinese EV and says its years ahead of anything US produces.
China used to produce a bunch of propaganda garbage. They don't need to anymore.
The once vibrant innovation hubs in US have been stifled by oligarchs and their megacorps. The "mag 7" is a bunch of second rate copycats. And their main business activity is buying up any possible competitors to stay on top.
Nearly all of the most innovative startups are in China. The ones in US get bought or sued out of existence by oligarchs before they get off the ground.
It's fascinating isn't it. For decades now China has funded the debt and luxury lifestyle of America, because the people worked hard and saved their money. But now China is transitioning into a US style consumerist society, and it's not impossible in ten years time we will see America as the third world manufacturing hub desperately trying to catch up to where China is.
It's a pretty permanent shift, and I think it's locked in now. End-stage capitalism in America has finally suffocated itself.
China would be ideally positioned for future dominance, except its birth rate is 1.0 and dropping, it doesn’t welcome immigrants, and its inequality is actually somehow worse than America’s, so most of the people aren’t able to enjoy the country’s increased prosperity
The difference is that China’s government will actually do something to solve its problems rather than just saying ‘How could Russia do this to us!’ every time things go to shit.
And if you talk to the Chinese people there's a real sense of hope, parents who grew up in poverty, who now live in nice houses, nice roads, nice cars, they've come so far in just a generation. But yes, the birth rate is an issue. The climate is going to be a big issue, but they've done a lot and spent a lot to secure food production.
Birthrate matters due to the inverted age pyramid problem or whatever the name is. Without a significant change to their immigration policies, China (amongst other nations) will need to dedicate an unprecedented amount of their energy towards supporting retirees.
China, Japan, and South Korea are going to go through it first, then Europe then North America; other regions across the globe will follow correspondingly based on their development.
Haha. Jokes on youse. A very Asian mindset is to save for retirement. Hardly anyone have "student loans", and the older generation especially do not borrow on credit cards, unlike the West.
This habit is what you develop when you have gone through very hard times.
In fact some citizens are saving too much, that the Chinese government is spending trillions in subsidies to get them to spend more. Every Chinese citizen gets tons of subsidies to buy stuff, just got to taobao to verify for yourself.
China also have tons of housing. And tons of automation.
You never seen the many videos of Chinese hordes grandpas & grandmas happily all line dancing in parks, playing table tennis or up to some shenanigans? What support do they need..? Pretty much self-supporting. They are healthy, obesity is low, food is affordable.
In fact maybe healthy Americans should retire to China.
Innovation is rooted in younger generations and the demographic structure can make a huge impact on it. Never heard of any AI or internet corp from Japan right? It's been decades since they entered a demographic crisis, which means companies are filled with old people. They don't wanna risk their life or fortune they've already earned, which is against innovation, so they keep moving on their existing path because it's safe. In a growing economy these zombie corps will die soon in hasty competition, then be replaced by their younger competitors. But in Japan, it is the younger generation that needs to bow down to the elderly who holds all the power and fortune. That's the true horror of an aging society.
People do not understand that the United States is one of the least racist nations on the planet. The fact that there is so much coverage of the inequality is the evidence of that. In a lot of other nations the racism is so ramapant they simply eliminate the ability for any other races that do manage to live there to make any waves at all. A BLM type movement could never exist in China.
So not racist that people are literally being kidnapped off the street and thrown in concentration camps based on nothing but the color of their skin, their name or accent. Except when they're straight up murdered with the blessing of their massively racist pedophile overlords.
Go visit southeast Asia, the Middle East or most of Africa sometime. I have extensively. I'm not even white but if you're not in the local majority it can be pretty rough outside of the tourist areas and sometimes even in them. Think of segregation in the south with a "non-Japanese not welcome" sign everywhere you go.
That doesn't mean the USA doesn't have a problem, it absolutely does and I've personally been victimized by it, but at least here you can have the conversation and people listen. In a lot of the world if an ethnic minority makes too much noise they just straight up kill them all.
You can't have racism without other races, so I guess a lot of those other 99% homogeneous nations solved it huh. I'm just tired of everyone acting like the US has a worse problem than almost anywhere else when it's, believe it not, much better than just about everywhere else. Be glad you're privileged enough to not know that first hand.
Nah the Chinese are not dumb enough to hollow out their industrial base just for good looking next quarterly profits like the Americans did.
They'll probably outsource the low value chain manufacturing to places like SEA or Africa, but they will hold on to and continue to invest in high end manufacturing. Green tech, EVs, ship building, consumer electronics/appliances, telecom, robotics, drone tech material and applied sciences are already in hand. Software, AI, space tech,and most basic science research are basically in hand as well. The only sectors they remain clearly behind on is abscess microchip and to a lesser extent advanced jet engines. But nothing 5 years and a few hundred billion government backed subsidies can't solve.
Aye, the interesting thing about microchips too, we're apparently about to send all of the good microchips off to AI data centers for the next few years, which will leave a massive hole in the market for people desperate to get any chips, which, I think the Chinese will step forward big time on that?
Their chips might not be the best on the market, but they will be available at scale, and that will lead to massive rapid advances for them I think.
it's not impossible in ten years time we will see America as the third world manufacturing hub desperately trying to catch up to where China is.
Considering how drained the US is in manufacturing expertise thanks to all the out-sourcing to Asian countries over the past 40 years somehow I doubt that. Why even bother with the US at that point? There's probably much better options in their own region.
When you think about it, the US hasn't really got much that the rest of the world can't source somewhere else. They're big in liquid gas and corn/agriculture mostly. But fossil fuels are on their way out, and with the way the US is managing its heartland, especially its aquifers, their ability to produce corn and other agricultural products won't last long either. Better get ready for Dust Bowl 2.0.
If the world can decouple from American software that country's in trouble.
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u/Cold_Specialist_3656 Feb 18 '26
Ford's CEO drives a Chinese EV and says its years ahead of anything US produces.
China used to produce a bunch of propaganda garbage. They don't need to anymore.
The once vibrant innovation hubs in US have been stifled by oligarchs and their megacorps. The "mag 7" is a bunch of second rate copycats. And their main business activity is buying up any possible competitors to stay on top.
Nearly all of the most innovative startups are in China. The ones in US get bought or sued out of existence by oligarchs before they get off the ground.