• @morrowind
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    22 years ago

    US is getting desperate

    Why would the US be getting desperate, Taiwan is exactly where they want it right now, they just want maintain the status quo.

    • China will inevitably surpass the US as the worlds top economic power by 2025 or earlier, which will destroy the US economy based on infinite debt sustained only by the US dollars world dominance. The US wants to provoke a war with China over Taiwan to cripple its economy so it cant surpass the US. This was clearly laid out in 2016 in the paper “War with China” by RAND Corporation (a NATO affiliated think tank).

      https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1140.html

      • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 years ago

        China has more or less surpassed it already on multiple metrics. The emerging youth of USA is also not a human resource, but a liability, so the situation becomes even better because I want Anglo empire to collapse completely, beyond recovery.

        Reagan economics over Roosevelt’s, and Bernays’ model for USA is working well.

        • ButtigiegMineralMap
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          52 years ago

          Yep, I hear that China is becoming the world’s #1 trade partner (majority of nations on Earth trade w/ US or China primarily, the number is rapidly growing for China and US is slowly receding.) not sure if they reached it yet, but I believe the estimate was that they could do it by 2025 and would MOST CERTAINLY do it by 2030(barring any impossible to predict circumstances) so yea China is def becoming the biggest trade partner in a few years

    • not just economically, but specifically technology plays an important role. technological supremacy is a large part of why the west and the US is able to maintain imperial supremacy, especially since technology plays such an important role in military supremacy. hypersonic weapons is a good demonstrator of this. there is a 5-15 year window in which the US might feel it would be able to win a small or large scale conflict, and it would rather fight with a seeming advantage than not. taking TSMC (depending on the timeframe, both countries are aiming for self-sufficiency) could also be a killing blow on US infrastructure and its ability to produce high-end military hardware.