Originally Posted by
MechEngr
China is an economic threat because corporate America handed them all the required tools. The corporations could do that because they bought enough legislators and even a President to make sure it happened. Now the corporations are strip mining American wealth to invest even more in the growing Chinese economy and the legislators are making sure that continues to happen. On top of that US universities welcomed full-price foreign students, which also allowed tuition and student housing inflation, to train as competitors to the US to go back to China with top American technology insights.
The serious threat to the US is the US and the US alone.
If there is consideration for military threat from China - that won't happen until the US corps have drained the most they can from the US economy.
Sadly we did it too, we truly believed that both China and Russia would become a democratic and free world like us. Most of their young people want that, in Russia they even believed they had that, until Putin said, this is not a democracy, you are not free to do what you want and I'm in charge. The same can be said of China albeit China hasn't actually done anything all that seriously wrong yet, We believed it wouldn't make any sense and it doesn't. I still believe in a free trade market just not with a regime ever again.
It is true about democracy, it's not free, you have to want it, you have to fight for it and then you have to defend it. Welcome Ukraine, may it be over soon and you take your place with us.