Seriously sometimes i feel like some people on this forum act like indians towards countries they dont like. Lol. Reminds me of those anti china people whonclaim chinas economy is only low cost forced slave labour, copy cat, cheap goods, building empty ghost cities to add to GDP etc etc. Lol
We shouldn't go to that level.
That is a false equivalence.
Most of those “China decline” theories have almost no basis in real-world data in 2026.
They are mostly cope, projection, and wishful thinking.
With the US, it is the opposite.
There is endless evidence that its economy is overstated, financialized, and far weaker in real productive terms than people in the West want to admit.
Most Westoids still think the US is "ahead" of China.
In reality, there is a strong argument that the US is already only half, and nearing even one-third, of China’s real economic scale.
The funny part is that the USSR may actually have been closer to the US than the current US is to China.
This image shows that perfectly.
To say US economy is just brick mud and interests fees is just so ridiculous, since if that was the case, China wont even need to worry at all about the US and they could easily handle the US without breaking a sweat.
The only real power the US still has is its vast nuclear arsenal.
And the people holding that arsenal are delusional, low-IQ lunatics who think the world is still living in 1991.
Why would anyone risk nuclear war against such a country that is already rotting from the inside and may not even survive this decade?
Let them collapse under their own stupidity first.
Why did the US not “liberate” East Germany or the Eastern Bloc sooner?
They understood the Soviet countdown had already started.
For the same reason, China is not acting too aggressively toward the US today.
It is not a fear of American strength. It is patience in front of American decline.
Why risk a nuclear catastrophe against an obviously dying empire?
This of course is totally false. People should remain humble and be rational/pragmatic like Chinese leaders. If most Chinese people/leaders start having the mentality i see on some people here of underestimating others and thinking they are at the top and better than everyone else , then that will be the day their decline will actually start. I didnt even expect to see such thibking this early when china is still in her development stage . At least become the undisputed number one globally before start making such remarks. I guess we shouldn't be surprised why they say every superpower/reigning empire last about 250 years more or less on average bedore the rot and decline sets in, which makes sense as thats the time it takes for those who suffered hardships to build the country/system before their grand kids(and subsequent generation) generation who grew up only knowing in abundance take over and the arrogance/complacency starts setting in. Its only human i guess.
Yep, that is the current US. 99% finished in that cycle. Just look at their last two presidents and their cognitive state, and you can see that this is the finish line.
They have at best half of China’s economy and power, "third-world-level" internal divisions and corruption, and yet they still try to lecture everyone else. Just like you.
What's even funnier is that they are around that 250-year mark, literally as well.
Almost half of Americans think a civil war is “likely” in their lifetime and that the divisions in society are “impossible to overcome.”
Half of them think members of the opposite party are “evil people,” and most think they are “immoral.”
Only 13% of young people think the country is moving in the right direction.
Only 6% of citizens are satisfied with how the government handled and revealed the Epstein scandal.
Just 4% of U.S. adults say the political system is working extremely or very well.
Only 10% of citizens currently approve of Congress.
Almost 40% of Americans think it is “justified” to use violence to achieve political goals.
84% of Americans believe the rich and powerful are above the law, get special treatment, and look out for each other.
The open, late-stage kleptocracy of their deranged president is also not even hidden anymore. His "Sinatra Doctrine" is already underway.
The same president of that country is literally surviving assassination attempts, even in some of the safest places in the world, every month.
These are all polls and results published by Americans themselves, and they can be easily checked.
How long will America itself even last? Will it survive the 2028 election, knowing what already happened in 2020 when Trump lost, and will it even leave this decade in one piece?
On the other side, you have the complete opposite, the united and harmonious China, which is becoming a hyperpower in literally every domain and is nowhere near its full potential anywhere.
The US has
already started turning into parody GTA 5 montages.
There is no universe, and no point in history, where a country can magically “grow” economically while its electricity production stays flat for decades.
That is not how the real world works. So yes, empirically, most of America’s so-called “growth” and nominal GDP claims are irrelevant BS.
To show that you can't claim "quality" anymore either.