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Seattle Ecomodernist Society's avatar

China shock 2 is based on the same fallacy as 1, zero sum game. As the belt and road and East Asian and BRICS development show growing exchange opens more opportunity for domestic economies prepared to compete. Flying Geese is being validated by global pattern of development. This postulates that exchange between higher and lower productivity countries gradually and stepwise diffuses increasing and demand and technology level, which state capacity can enhance or degrade but cannot greatly depart from in acceleration. It was never defined as a queue or automatic. The reason the china shock has no prescription but only moral judgment is because that is its purpose, to tarnish the reputation of china to slow the thinking of learning from china’s experience and bolster confidence in the American strategy of aggressive mercantile bloc. The latter is tangential from the root problem of industrial obsolescence in the advanced countries, which is fundamentally imbalanced automation and obsolete offering. On akamatsu’s ladder one steps up or is stepped on.

Harry's avatar

An article like this by a person that has boots on ground and KNOWS what they’re talking about was much needed.

Kathleen Weber's avatar

Thank you for pointing out how China is benefiting the developing world through the sale of industrial machinery.

However, at this point China needs to recognize that it is indeed the elephant in the room. No other country, the United States included, can make an economic decision without reckoning with the impact of the Chinese economy on that decision. China is now in the position that the United States was in 1945. At that point, Americans quickly acquired the nickname, “the Ugly American,” because they did not take into account the impact of American power on every other country in the world. China is already in economic terms a hegemonic or near hegemonic authority. It is developing a military Power that nearly Equals American military power.

Does China want its representatives to become known as, "the ugly Chinese? "

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All articles coming from the USA seem to have one of the classic US problems - they tend to see or explain in simple black and white, the good and the bad, white hat cowboy and black hat cowboy. After the end of the cold war the US were desperately seeking a new enemy and finally found it in China. This anti-China bias permeates all levels, that's why this post should be a "must read" for every American.

We westeners have to face our decline and start doing something about it instead of pointing only to the usual scapegoat, raising custom duties to protect ourselves and falsely claiming China is doing everything just to hurt us. In reality they have their own problems and simply ,understandably, don't care about ours

Kathleen Weber's avatar

I agree with you yeah in many respects, but I'd like to express two reservations. First of all, we found our post Cold war enemy with a ferocious zeal in 2001 when we went after Islamic extremism. Of course, by the withdraw or withdrawal for my Afghanistan in 20 21, we had gotten quite tired of that enemy. But I agree that China has replaced Islamic terrorism as the focus of American xenophobia.

Second of all, my major point is that the major powers of the world, whether they are the USA or China or the EU, would be wise to worry about the problems of others.

Those who live in and act in blissful indifference to their environment arouse enmities of which they are not aware.