CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Grant Newsham) - How can the United States possibly compete with China?
Originally posted by Asia Times
China’s rulers invest tremendous resources into cultivating the ‘resistance is futile’ narrative among foreign elites and influentials Yes, China certainly seems daunting. Go there and take a look at massive modern factories operating 24/7, millions of industrial and domestic service robots, along with what look like never-ending shiny skyscrapers in Shenzhen, Shanghai and other cities. The sheer scale of it all is astonishing. Then internalize factoids such as this: China’s shipbuilding capacity is 200 times that of America’s. And there are the dependencies the United States has inflicted upon itself over the last 30 years for essential requirements such as medicine and the critical components and minerals on which…Open