China...the elephant in the room?
So... is China the elephant in the room our country should be addressing?
China just launched new submarine launched April 1st: Bigger than ours, probably quieter, etc: (also bear in mind, China has more submarines than we do already, although many are currently older, that will change)
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news...typhoon-class/ <---ETA: This is an elaborate april fools I fell for. See reply. The rest is accurate.
Notice the nuclear torpedoes which curiously seem very closely related to the Russian design, designed to create a massive tsunami that can roll through huge swaths of a country while also leaving radioactivity throughout. Fun. It also begs the question if Russia and China are sharing some designs.
China is also getting more aggressive, and experts in the US, including top US Brass, believes China WILL attack Taiwan within the next six years:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-admiral-warns
Also bear in mind, Taiwan has largely stopped scrambling fighters to intercept the Chinese flights over their territory because they want to stop the continued fuel expenditures for their already strapped budget.
China is also spending more on aerospace research and manufacturing in the next few years than we have historically. It would not surprise me if their fighter technology eclipses our own in a few years. They are also making gains in space.
They are also starting to beat us at the foreign investing game, using our roadmap to global manipulation and in many ways, kicking us out of certain regions through local political influence, immigration, and infrastructure investment. China is deeply embedded in the middle east, the south pacific, even south america.
Their lack of a social safety net means parents rely on kids for retirement, and thus their educational performance is significantly better than ours, because their kids are worried about getting beat half to death from their parents if they don't have perfect performance; Meanwhile many of our kids are only worried about what Charissa thinks about their shoes and when they can get stoned tonight. Generationally, they will eclipse us on technology, soon, just through sheer statistical numbers, brainpower and AI investment. They are also homogenous with strong national unity.
My 2 cents:
All our little domestic/political problems in the U.S., while significant at times, pales in comparison to the problem that China is, and especially will be. As a country, I feel we've all been bickering like kindergarteners over the equivalent of a Tickle me Elmo, oblivious to the lumbering, fat pedophile that has picked US up in his van and is driving us to his house.
Prediction: In ten years, everyone is going to be bitching about "what are we going to do about CHINA" but it will be way, way to late, and they will have long called our bluff and have free license to do whatever-the-hell-they-want worldwide without any ramification. What are we going to do, nuke them? Attack them? HAHAHA nope. That bluff is going to be called soon (< 6 years) in Taiwan.
M.A.D. is also going to go the way of the dodo in a few more years imho. It simply will cease to be a deterrent for them, because their willingness to use it is likely significantly more than ours and they will have already called our bluff on that. I doubt we get nuked, but we won't be engaging them anywhere either. Much like Russia vs. Ukraine, but on a much more significant level.
On this point at least, Romney was right when people shit on him during the Obama debates. It would've been nice if we would've been looking towards the future 8 years ago.
