China is in deep trouble and bound to
get worse
American Thinker,
by
Uldis Sprogis
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
9/13/2021 9:15:41 AM
Is China the next superpower? Is the media's depiction of the country as a ten-foot giant really accurate? That's dubious. For all its bluster on the global stage, China is a giant in trouble. (snip) Perhaps the biggest problem in China is its erstwhile "one child" policy, which created many single, self-absorbed adults with poor social skills and an entitlement mindset that included no great desire to marry young and bear the financial burden of offspring. (snip) Another problem is income disparity, with a vast gulf of differences between a tiny urban elite and the country's many urban and rural poor.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highvoltage 9/13/2021 9:23:00 AM (No. 912959)
All I can say is let their troubles begin and not end soon.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Mofongo 9/13/2021 9:30:11 AM (No. 912970)
I disagree. Judging from the perspective of where both countries are today:
- A far greater percentage of Chinese families are stable and headed by two parents. This is a fundamental difference that is consistently overlooked.
- China is way more serious about educating its youth productively than we.
- In spite of a complex history characterized by episodes of brutality, the Chinese people are fiercely proud of their culture and history. No comment required about the American counterpart.
- The Chinese people are determined never to permit the humiliation suffered during the second half of the 19th century to occur again. More than anything, that dynamic motivates their unity, and their loyalty to the regime. Do we have a motivating mission or any semblance of national unity or commitment?
- The Communist Party - which provides the exclusive political leadership - consists of their best and brightest. Can we say the same about our governing class?
Not for a second would I trade the remnants of our democracy for any form of Communism, especially China’s. But I am not optimistic about the outcome of this struggle.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
marlon 9/13/2021 9:37:45 AM (No. 912987)
And, if we had real intelligence professionals they would be exploiting every one of these weaknesses and ensuring the weakening of our # adversary. But no, let's use all of our resources to ensure Orange Man Bad never succeeds in thinning out the swamp or the trillions of dollars that they are all siphoning into their greasy pockets.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NamVet70 9/13/2021 9:50:44 AM (No. 913012)
China will choose to start wars when their problems get too bad. They will consider the wars as just normal foreign relations by other means. They have already threatened India, and they see Taiwan as just unfinished business.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 9/13/2021 9:56:28 AM (No. 913021)
Fine. Let China be #1. Numero uno. Then the rest of the world can show up at THEIR doorstep, hat in hand, outreached palms, poor beggars in need of protection, food and shelter, ready to suck them dry instead of us. Good.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JimBob 9/13/2021 10:00:40 AM (No. 913026)
Adding to the comments of Mofongo (#2)....
China has more people than any other country.
China has more manufacturing than any other country.
China makes more steel than any other country.
China makes more concrete than any other country.
China has tremendous financial reserves, earned via their foreign-trade surplus by selling stuff to the USA.
China has more unmarried military-age men -men for who there are no Chinese women available, due to the one-child policy- than any other country.
China is building or has recently built three 'fields' of 100 ICBM launch silos per field, and thanks to Bill Clinton, has both the American guidance technology to accurately place those missiles, and the designs of the American W87 and W88 advanced miniature-size atomic warheads, so that they can place three atomic warheads on each missile.
In aviation safety training, they teach that a plane crash is often not the result of one thing, but of an 'accident chain', the links of which are many factors that add up to put the plane and pilot in an impossible situation.
The factors are stacking up..... the links of the chain are being forged and assembled...... and not in our favor.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LadyHen 9/13/2021 10:22:42 AM (No. 913077)
Having actually read and studied this a bit, yes, China is facing several crisis in the next 20 years.
There are not enough women, not enough uteruses to produce enough babies to sustain the population. Men can produce almost infinite children but women can only carry abt 24 pregnancies in her lifetime. If you have artificially created a shortage of uteruses, you have created a population timebomb. There are not enough future workers (children) possible in the pipeline to sustain their coming elderly population boom, a direct result of the one child policy. The solution will be brutal, probably forced or coerced euthanasia of the elderly.
Water in the north of China is a massive problem. 80% of China's rain falls in the south. The amount of resources China is using to shift water from south to north is incredible and yet it is still not near enough. And what water is available has been polluted by industry.
The crazy housing market that the Chinese people essentially use as a stock market is unsustainable. It has created whole empty cities, it's eerie . Housing is seen as the only reliable investment in China so whole families pool money invest in 2nd and even 3rd homes, home no one will ever live in. A man can not marry without a home and competition for the brides is insane due to again, the one child policy.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MDConservative 9/13/2021 10:24:55 AM (No. 913081)
FTA: "The United States is in bad shape morally and economically, but the power of money has corrupted the leadership of China to the point where no amount of coercive CCP effort will solve the problems."
Of course, the power of money has no effect in the US and its governing bodies. I know Mitch denies it...the Bidens...Clintons...Obamas... We're like the driven snow compared to anyone else. Yeah.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 9/13/2021 11:12:28 AM (No. 913158)
I have many Chinese American friends. They hate China!
I've worked with engineers from China. Very smart and capable people. I have enjoyed working with all of them. But they *will* *not* *question* their superiors! Even when they know something is wrong.
This is why bridges and buildings in China fall down. Flaws in design and material specifications are deliberately ignored if it serves management to ignore them.
China is a mess. President Trump was on the road to putting the Chinese government in it's place and would have made great progress given a second term. That's why they helped Biden cheat. The people are very much like us, save for the cultural difference of never questioning authority.
Pray for the people of China.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/13/2021 11:14:46 AM (No. 913161)
China should be in trouble. Especially with what they did regarding COVID.
My biggest concern is a 'cornered' China. They won't hesitate to kill people to get out of a corner. Can see China killing 100 million people to get their way. Much like the Muslims in that regard.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 9/13/2021 11:27:01 AM (No. 913180)
I've been hearing this for five years... With Diaper Joe in charge China has nothing to worry about... we'll bail them out.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
columba 9/13/2021 11:29:04 AM (No. 913186)
God made humanity the way he made it. And no nation, so Windows geek, no feminist freak - no sex pervert - nobody - can change the way we were created.
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