It’s not a trade war with China. It’s a tech war

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... and if we are not extremely careful it will be a real war. A lot of people laugh when a comparison between the events of today and the events before WW I and WWII is made, but this is serious stuff and the USA is not very good at winning wars.

China today is in the position that the US was in 1942 - it possesses the world's greatest manufacturing capacity. That alone can be a war-winner. But China also possesses the world's greatest source of military-age men.

The US thinks that the best technology trumps the greatest manufacturing capacity. That's the same mistake that Germany made in WW2. It doesn't matter if your weapons have kill ratio of 100:1 if your opponent can throw 101 weapons at them.

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