- 19 Jan 2019 23:12
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Watch this graph: https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1072763227337977861
Look at how China's GDP has risen since capitalist post-Soviet reforms of the early 90's. Look at the absolutely astonishing increases in GDP since around 2005. It is still risen quickly. Given it's 1.3 billion population, it's almost certain to surpass the US as the global economic leader eventually.
When China really starts getting wealthy enough to move beyond dependence on selling its labour to the West, and those workers get enough money to buy the items they're making themselves and have a powerful domestic economy that will explode, China will be unstoppable as a global power.
Given how cruel, corrupt, and totalitarian the Chinese government is, long-term we should all fear China taking America's place as the global hegemonic superpower. If we think the US empire is evil, imagine China. China has barely begun to flex its military might, imagine when that happens. A population base of 1.3 billion people from which to build a modern army of soldiers would be unstoppable save a nuclear exchange.
Look at how China's GDP has risen since capitalist post-Soviet reforms of the early 90's. Look at the absolutely astonishing increases in GDP since around 2005. It is still risen quickly. Given it's 1.3 billion population, it's almost certain to surpass the US as the global economic leader eventually.
When China really starts getting wealthy enough to move beyond dependence on selling its labour to the West, and those workers get enough money to buy the items they're making themselves and have a powerful domestic economy that will explode, China will be unstoppable as a global power.
Given how cruel, corrupt, and totalitarian the Chinese government is, long-term we should all fear China taking America's place as the global hegemonic superpower. If we think the US empire is evil, imagine China. China has barely begun to flex its military might, imagine when that happens. A population base of 1.3 billion people from which to build a modern army of soldiers would be unstoppable save a nuclear exchange.
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