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China's long game, and their willingness to play it with the utmost patience, is really what keeps me worried about how we come out of this pandemic and how we move forward over the next decade.
Establishing dominance in terms of currency and military capabilities has been their doctrine for decades now as they've slowly moved pieces on the chess board ever so slightly so that the big move never comes all at once - you just notice your F'd when you realize you didn't even see all your pieces gobbled up.
The thing that's really bothered me during this pandemic is that it's revealed countless exploitable opportunities in the US that show how weak we are and how weakened we could be if a little effort was put into it. Most of our failures are our own, but the biggest red flag to me is the reliance on a supply chain that could be crippled instantly if the Chinese government so chose. WAY too much stuff is made overseas that we depend on, that we could make right here if we just chose to pay people a living wage to do the work.
The scary thought is this: let's say Covid-19 was an accident (and I still believe it was). If we're this screwed because of an accident, God forbid what would happen if a pandemic came with some intention of using biological agents, gain of function stuff that would absolutely cripple society in conjunction with supply chain disruption that would bring our country to a dead stop. Toss in attacks on the electrical grid, other essential services, and you've brought the most powerful country in the world to its knees without firing a shot.
There's so much conspiracy theory stuff out there that's pure nonsense and not worth a seconds worth of time to talk about, but understanding China's global ambitions and their absolute willingness to pursue it makes it all seem perfectly plausible as a tactic born out of that slow, methodical, patient, calculated strategy they have to achieve it.
- Who’s to say that China doesn’t vaccinate its population, start a pandemic then take over the world? They might living in your house...shapesalad
- *They might like living in your house.shapesalad
- All signs show we are heading towards WWIII. But slowly. Creeping. And China will lose, but only after massive destruction on both sides.shapesalad
- Failure will come from China's lack of understanding of human motivation.shapesalad
- Can you please study more communism? No communist country is interested in expansion, rather than maintaining power.********
- Also WW3 will be in space, as WW2.5 is already cyber********
- Anyway, communism will never win as it promotes fear and corruption - the easiest things to exploit in any conflict.********
- China taking over the world is going to quickly run into the reality that almost no one outside of China wants the "Chinese system."yuekit
- Even on the periphery of China (HK, Taiwan, Myanmar, Cambodia) you can see it running into trouble.yuekit
- So how is China going to start taking over totally different parts of the world? Not to mention, even if people wanted to learn Chinese it's really difficult :)yuekit
- USA was successful partly because English is the default global language, American movies and music are watched everywhere. Chinese culture is very insular.yuekit