China has 40% of the world's manufacturing capacity. They produce more electricity than the next six biggest electricity producing countries combined. The Three Gorges Dam is the largest electricity producing facility of any kind in the world, 24 gigawatts. The Chinese are building another hydroelectric dam in Tibet that will be 60 gigawatts. The Chinese added more clean solar power to their grid than our entire nuclear generating capacity, just last year alone. When you go to Beijing, half the cars, trucks, and buses are already electric. China has already converted 13% of their cars to electric. Travel around the world and you will see Chinese car and truck dealerships, many of them electric. China has 230 times the shipbuilding capacity of the United States by tonnage. Just one Chinese shipyard has more shipbuilding capacity than the entire United States. In the same time since Californians voted to build our high speed rail in 2008, China has built the largest high speed rail network in the world, with over 30,000 miles (ca. 48,280 km) of tracks and still growing.
This whole idea of China invading Taiwan or the US going to war with China over Taiwan is just some archaic Cold War American thinking. Taiwan will want to join China soon. Taiwan is part of China, with the same language, culture, etc. You can't even imagine how far behind China we are. They are still an industrial and manufacturing company, but they're working incredibly quickly to become a technology country. They're currently somewhat like what Japan was 20-30 years ago.
As far as culture, they have the oldest continuous civilization in the world, over 4,000, years; they became a unified country 2,200 years ago. We have to pivot to holding the Western Hemisphere because we've already lost the Asia-Pacific. We have no long term plan for our country, and whatever plan we have changes every 4 or 8 years with each president and political party. In 20 years the financial hub of the world won't be NYC, it'll be Hong Kong. Every day I read about some US scientist or engineer who is moving to China for better wages and opportunities. Every day I read about how they're becoming self-sufficient for their own computer chip manufacturing. We still have financial power and the edge in innovation, but that will change. China exports its excess manufacturing and engineering capacity to build the ports, railways, highways, electrical and network grids for 75% of the world's population. That ensures those countries will use Chinese equipment and technical standards for at least the rest of this century.
Trump is really a last ditch attempt to restore American industrial and manufacturing power, but we will never catch up with China now. Yet all the dribbling idiots that have never produced anything and don't understand anything and believe socialism might be a solution to their problems, they will fight every attempt at change the whole way, so they can keep the same broken, corrupt, ineffective system they've only ever known, the same system they've voted for their entire life.
- Dave Badperson
