If a war comes, or a revolution, even, how would such affect the U.S.? Which of the two is likely to lose this version of "the Great Game" as the English used to call their rivalry in Central Asia with Imperial Russia. Many think the U.S. – and the Chinese leaders certainly think so – that the U.S. is a hopeless mongrel state and like to fall apart quite readily.
Maybe. Maybe not. We're a powder keg because of the Communists and their long-march through our institutions, and because we're a multi-racial society and that's just next to impossible to "de-powder keg" in the first place.
China, though, is a powder keg in that its core Han Chinese population, racist like few of us here can imagine, is under every imaginable pressure: their government is a kleptocracy unanswerable to any one (ours mirrors this, but we're far down the corruption totem pole compared to them), their government is staffed by thugs who rise to power not on competence but connections. Their government has forced the killings of 10s of millions -- maybe 100s of millions -- of babies, forcing a "One-Child Policy" that has left not only a completely unbalanced male to female population, but devastating psychological scars on just about everyone in the country. Even their physical health is shaky, and their environment massively polluted. Their "Capitalist" system is pure crony, and they hide the true state of their economy. Their real-estate and banking is very shaky. Their manufacturing depends on the goodwill of foreigners (especially the U.S.) whom they keep offending and insulting. They're loathed by the minorities in China and they've no friends outside their borders, except their pet slave, N. Korea. And to cap it all, they're just barely feeding themselves. A war or revolution of any sort will result in mass Chinese starvation.
So, all in all, I wouldn't trade places with them.
An Préachan
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