If the Chinese had actual competition their vanity projects would be devastating. However, they don't. The west is doing everything it can to racially purge itself and render itself inert.
At this rate the Chinese can shoot all their resources into space and they'd still win in the end because they'll retain the only (mostly) racially homogeneous nation with a standing army.
I have little doubt the CCP will retain control over their westphalian state. But if maintaining continuity of government is winning then the taliban is winning.
You're still thinking of the game as a great powers contest, a perception which frankly I reject, because America isn't one great power. It's several powers, transposed upon each other geographically and each fighting for control over continuity of the empire they happen to geographically share.
People who think the wars of the 21st century will be about nations are playing the game by old rules that haven't been the case since Bill Clinton.
The wars of the 21st century will be about philosophy, and once they begin in earnest they'll be every bit as bloody as the 30 years war was.
No, I'm denying its existence entirely. What you, and frankly, the CCP consider success I call an unsustainable speculation bubble combined with a handful of actual catastrophes waiting to happen.
They're spending vast sums on shitty construction projects made with substandard materials in a speculation fueled housing investment craze.
Ultimately those initiatives don't matter.
If the Chinese had actual competition their vanity projects would be devastating. However, they don't. The west is doing everything it can to racially purge itself and render itself inert.
At this rate the Chinese can shoot all their resources into space and they'd still win in the end because they'll retain the only (mostly) racially homogeneous nation with a standing army.
Define win.
I have little doubt the CCP will retain control over their westphalian state. But if maintaining continuity of government is winning then the taliban is winning.
You're still thinking of the game as a great powers contest, a perception which frankly I reject, because America isn't one great power. It's several powers, transposed upon each other geographically and each fighting for control over continuity of the empire they happen to geographically share.
People who think the wars of the 21st century will be about nations are playing the game by old rules that haven't been the case since Bill Clinton.
The wars of the 21st century will be about philosophy, and once they begin in earnest they'll be every bit as bloody as the 30 years war was.
I think you're getting high on your own supply there.
Just because you're trying to explain away China's success does not mean that it is not there.
No, I'm denying its existence entirely. What you, and frankly, the CCP consider success I call an unsustainable speculation bubble combined with a handful of actual catastrophes waiting to happen.
Its worse than that. China is a facade, propped up on the backs of the west.
China's "success" is a lot like every other totalitarian regime's "success." They'll be able to fake it until it all collapses.
Additionally, even after it collapses, there will be defenders. Again just like every other totalitarian regime.
Quite literally in their case.
All those shoddy concrete highrise tenements are one earthquake away from the worst urban deathtoll since WW2.
I know that has been the case for other communists regimes, Romania comes to mind. Are there a lot of earthquakes in China?