With China's huge resources both natural and human it's only expected that China will again reclaim its position as the leading country in science, technology, production and generally everything.

If you assume that .5% of population are "einsteins" then China has 7.5m einsteins who are now able to access universities and advance sciences whether it's AI or solar power or self driving cars.

There's no doubt about the fact that the future belongs to China.

There's just no way to deny this. The economical and political power will shift to China.

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lateforwork 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

China draws mainly on the talents of the best of its billion+ population. But America has had its pick of the best of the world's 8 billion people. We are taking a break now, but starting 2029 America will resume having its pick of the best.

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delta_p_delta_x 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> but starting 2029 America will resume having its pick of the best

Your current government seems determined to make sure this won't happen.

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samiv 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

US is a crumbling democracy with crumbling infrastructure and society. I just hope while it goes down it doesn't take the rest of the planet with it.

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lateforwork 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes that's true... but only for the next 3 more years. We return in 2029.

	▲	ceejayoz 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The American people did this twice in fairly quick succession. Unless there's a serious reckoning afterwards, the rest of the world is gonna operate on the assumption that it can and probably will happen again soon.

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thatguy0900 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And in 2032 everyone just crosses their fingers this doesn't happen again? Unless 2029 includes a structural overhaul of the entire government I really don't see how the US regains it's status as the capital of the world. We are doing everything in our power to permenantly isolate ourselves from the rest of the world at the moment. Attacking a nato state, even threatening to attack a nato state really, is not something everyone will overlook in a years time. The wheels are turning now to divest from the us.

	▲	lateforwork 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My optimistic take is that we will learn from the mistakes we are making now to make sure it does not get repeated ever again. Trump will be gone and will be too old to have any influence. But Elon Musk and people like Marc Andreessen will continue to be a problem we need to find a solution for.

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ebruchez 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> There's just no way to deny this.

Of course there is "way".

All the above above in itself sounds like propaganda. You forget other political (authoritarian system making massive mistakes), demographic (1.0, probably less in reality, birth per woman), psychological (disillusioned young population), and geographic (food and other imports) aspects, among other things.

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ragazzina 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> authoritarian system making massive mistakes

Compared to the US democracy?

	▲	ebruchez an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yes - so far.

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illuminator83 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Especially since the US is not going to have any allies anymore soon.