At annual political meetings, China lays out its plan to surpass the U.S.

[DonViejo]

Source: LA Times/Yahoo Newss


Alice Su
Thu, March 11, 2021, 8:10 AM·6 min read

In smugly celebratory tones, China wrapped up political meetings Thursday at which officials praised the country's repressive political system, hailed its ongoing recovery from the pandemic, flexed Beijing's power over Hong Kong and laid out plans to compete with the U.S. abroad, saying that "the best is still ahead of us."

Delegates to the annual political gatherings known as the "Two Sessions" gave their rubber-stamp approval to the Communist regime's plans to wield greater power over Hong Kong's government, indoctrinate ethnic minorities through political and Mandarin-language instruction, and surpass the U.S. in technology. Government officials and state media repeatedly emphasized how China’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated its superior political system and prefaced an inevitable rise above Western powers.

“China can already view the world on an equal level,” President Xi Jinping said in a speech during the meetings, which assembled about 3,000 delegates from around the country. China had been first to tame the coronavirus, first to resume work and first to attain positive economic growth, Xi said.

“This came from self-confidence in our path, self-confidence in our theories, self-confidence in our system, self-confidence in our culture,” he said. “Our national system can concentrate force to do big things.”

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1. History Lessons

For China, 30 years ago the world was convinced Japan was going to replace the US as a world leader.

For the US, Germany focused its energies on military aggrandizement after its defeat in WW I. In stead of building out and supporting its industry to secure trade to meet the needs of its people, it focused on military solutions to forcefully take what it though it had a right to because it was stronger than the peoples who actually owned it. As an example, Germany was focused on securing food supplies by taking Ukraine. It could have supplied itself if it had invested its energies in improving its agricultural base or supported its industrial base to trade for what it needed.

I'm afraid the US will focus its energies on expanding its already expensive military industrial complex instead of focusing its energies on developing its human capital that will allow our economic system to keep up with any other adversarial power.

[mjvpi]

2. We need to focus on being the shiny city on the hill.

We are at a turning point. America, as an ideal is infectious. Dick Gregory was said some thing like, you don’t have to force American ideals down people’s throats. They will steal it. As china’s middle class grows, the ideals of Representative Democracy will look better and better. We just need to concentrate on doing America right.

HR1 needs to pass. That’s how to compete with China.