

Even while (begrudgingly) admitting that China has surpassed the US everywhere that matters they just can’t help but squeeze in just enough sinophobia to make the whole thing reek of desperate nationalism.
This isn’t that deep. The US only looks as far ahead as the next fiscal quarter while China plans decades ahead. We were always going to lose this. The competence of our leadership never mattered. China has and will continue to leave the US behind. That is and will continue to happen. Trump just accelerated the timetable.
There is no grand plan. Just an old con man who rode a wave of engineered cultural grievance to power in a Hail Mary attempt to avoid going to prison. Now he’s ripping the copper out of the walls before the ship sinks and he flees to a non-extradition treaty nation.
P.S. : I as a southerner will never forgive my fellow southerners for getting hoodwinked by that carpetbagger.
Historical rugpull.