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You're probably going to hear more from this guy. I've seen a couple articles and interviews about this book already today.

This guy is claiming Apple built China as the technological powerhouse and threat to the US it is today. To me it sounds like business as usual and so what? No surprising revelations. I remember when they were insulting China as just being the assembler of iPhones. All the hi-tech parts where from all over the advanced Western allied world. Then they forget Steve Jobs was a Dalai Lama supporter. You can't take credit for something they didn't intend to do in the first place.
If you want to know something about China vs the US, read the following article. However, don't get carried away by the clickbait title - it was chosen by New York Times' editorial board, not the author.

In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant.​

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TPenglake

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If you want to know something about China vs the US, read the following article. However, don't get carried away by the clickbait title - it was chosen by New York Times' editorial board, not the author.

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One comment on that NYTimes article succintly put it in that the US system is now completely incapable of electing good leaders.

I remember when HBO's Chernobyl first came out and everyone was quick to throw in their black and white intrepretation that the show's themes only applied to so called authoritarian nations like China and Russia, rather than a democracy like the USA. And yet here we are, where one man's pride (seriously, the POTUS was not getting regular cancer checkups?) and a party's old guard completely devoted to supressing its young up and comers to maintain their cushy lifestyles has left the mantle of what is now, the world's former dominant superpower, in the hands of real life, old Sonny Corleone.

What Americans were blind to the fact, amidst their arguments of whether the American or Chinese systems of government was better, is no political system or Empire in this world can escape rot.

In China's history the rot occurred numerous times, but China has stood the test of time in constantly reinventing itself after a collapse cycle. America is in a rot phase and should be asking itself if it can do the same. I would say it still can, it still has many things going for it from its geography to its innovation and cultural hubs. What it should get used to though, is that from henceforth, the multipolar world has already begun. And 2025 is when it officially began, timestamp and archive it, there's nothing they can do to turn back the clock.
 
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TPenglake

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Haha, I still remember making a How it started, How its going meme back when XHS was the moment people started acknowledging China had become cool. Now I imagine with the flood of Western admissions to the fact, there'll be no shortage of much more creative memes highlighting this new reality.

Sidenote, I archived and read the article and am glad they mentioned MiHoYo. As much as I liked Black Myth Wukong, it was a little annoying seeing so many AAA snobs say that its the first cultural product to come out of China that actually mattered, when Genshin was far more innovative and 5 years later still has an international audience at least 5 times larger than WuKong's.
 
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