"Because Russia was just focusing on the arms race, nothing else." Yay for not even checking Wikipedia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology

"Because Russia was just focusing on the arms race, nothing else." Yay for not even checking Wikipedia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_th... "For the past 20-something years "experts" have made predictions of how China will catastrophically fail "in the next 5 years" because whatever the latest issue was that we just identified with how China does things wrong. At least you put your predictions 20 years in the future so you don't have to correct them that often. ;-)" I put no timelines on any predictions nor did I make a prediction just a simple comparison to the history of the USSR. Me thinks you didn't even read the original comment. "And while it's true that China has a lot of internal conflicts and issues, I don't see how any of them should pose a serious threat to their road to success, or rather not more than the issues we have in the west now." No state attempting to gain imperial power does so without causing significant pushback from its neighbors (South China Sea, Himalaya border, Taiwan, etc.) This is the exact issue that caused WW2 which didn't work out to well for the new imperialist on the block.