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> Sorry, but truth ain't always easy to hear. It's copeium. The alternative is to admit that there could be another system, authoritarian, non-democratic, wher

• keepamovin 3y ago
  It's completely copium. It's kind of dumb. Already the biggest in the world a few years ago by some metrics, but in GDP terms maybe 10 - 15 years. But the strange thing is that still so much room to grow beyond that. 5 to 6x times as many people as US, to achieve a comparable standard of living to US would produce a truly enormous economy. I don't think China should be "world ruler" by any means (they're not ready and not international enough, and that Chinese culture is not respecting of other people enough at all, and that's not OK, but we can't expect them to develop themselves too quickly because they have a lot on their plate) but I think people should want China to be successful. To want them to be a giant failure is just dumb. And smart people will be learning from China right now, not drinking copium while being a pendejo over China-crash-porn. It's all so ridiculous and sad. How can you say you're from "the best/ better" system if that's your reaction to a new contender? It makes you look like a bitter loser. Ugh... Granted there will be downvotes to espousing this correct view, so part of the problem is people in the West need to work through their anger/fear issues on China before they can see it clearly. We're not there yet. And we can't hope to really compete until we can see it clearly, so...get to work people, do the inner work to have some clear sight!!