But the western elite doesn't in any way display technocratic competence, it is just displaying decadence with its usual symptoms. It looks old and bored and ca

But the western elite doesn't in any way display technocratic competence, it is just displaying decadence with its usual symptoms. It looks old and bored and cannot even define a goal that inspires anyone. Sure, economists that look on small-dimensional metrics might love China, but their success is not surprising. The one advantage western nations had is knowledge, which was happily outsourced into other countries like China. Of course it will profit. That said, China isn't the communist enemy, far from it, but it also is a censorious and paternalistic dictatorship. Perhaps just a step every nations walks through at some point and western elites got a bit nostalgic here.