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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago

They are absolutely going to pull ahead on the world stage, whatever that really means.

But if you have lived in America all your life and been told how we're the gleaming city on the mountain, the land of milk-and-honey and all that pabulum we've been fed for decades and decades, and then walk around in one of China's newer cities you will have a radical culture shock. Then have a medical problem and walk into one of their hospitals.

Fuck, just walk into a public restroom or use their mass transit and you will wonder where the fuck your tax money is going.

Their space program alone gets zero coverage in the US and has done amazing things that will guarantee them the solar system in just a few decades.

Not saying they're some kind of perfect nation, their human rights issues, their abuse of their workers, their racism and xenophobia are still huge and glaring, but it's going to be a lot worse in the US before long.