If anything is racist, it's the assumption that the only relevant difference between China and the US is racial. Asia has more successful and less successful c

If anything is racist, it's the assumption that the only relevant difference between China and the US is racial. Asia has more successful and less successful countries. Europe has more successful and less successful countries. Africa has more successful and less successful countries. The Americas have more successful and less successful countries. Countries with markets and liberal democracies consistently outperform countries without them. Totalitarian states can, in the short run, appear very successful--Germany and Russia both had stretches of this during their totalitarian eras--but it never lasts. Maybe I'm wrong and China is the first country to successfully perfect totalitarian single-party rule, but odds are that their growth and success will, in the end, be just as illusory as that of their forebears.