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The fear of China "overtaking" the US is like the fear of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Real, but with no substance. A system built on top of paranoia i

• gxs 6y ago
  No one said they would over take - merely they that are a formidable foe and will have a presence no doubt. The kind of hubris in this thread tells me despite how asinine these articles are they hit HNs nerve.
  • kelnos 6y ago
    I wouldn't say "no one"; my personal opinion is that if the West doesn't wake up, they'll quite easily overtake in a few decades, if not sooner. We continue to enable their rise, while ignoring their bad behavior, all because we need access to their manufacturing capability... capability we've willingly ceded to them over the past decades.
• seniorivn 6y ago
  you oversimplify their model, for most people in Schenchzen(Chinese silicon valley) the motivation is the same as it was in US
• mempko 6y ago
  I'm sorry, but China is much stronger economically than the USSR ever was
• kelnos 6y ago
  Downplaying China and their potential is exactly how China got to the level of prominence they have today. I don't see the Soviet Union as a good comparison. I think China could still fail, of course, but they're much more likely than the Soviets (from whom they no doubt learned some of what not to do) to succeed in the longer term. The biggest problem is that the West is allowing them to win, by being addicted to cheap goods and losing the ability to manufacture many things (cost-effectively or at all) ourselves, while China doesn't open up their markets to outsiders, at least nowhere near the same degree as we give them access.