Pentagon: China Now Has World’s Largest Navy

I think the Chinese objective is to have enough power to deny U.S. access to the South China Sea, and perhaps the sea of Japan. They also want to be able to project power in the case of more limited conflicts, such as civil wars in Africa or the Middle East.

Barring a catastrophe in the US, you need to look at the numbers: Japan is quite small, most of it land is mountains, it has barely any natural resources, its population is about a third of the US's. There was some hysteria in the 80s but factually with such numbers Japan could never have surpassed the US.

In addition to that, because of WWII Japan is basically satellite state of the US, which means it cannot do as it pleases militarily (and even politically).

On the other hand, China is larger than the continental US, has plenty of natural resources, and has a population 4x that of the US. It is also, of course, not subjected to US domination.

The role are reversed and, as China develops, the numbers indicates that China essentially will dwarf the US.

This is really what has dawned on the American government and what explains their actions. They're not panicking yet but they are certainly alarmed (Japan never alarmed anyone in the D.C area since 1945).

Even the EU makes the US uneasy because, again, they know that the EU can be bigger than they are.

No technological advancement? Has the CCP indicated that they'd prefer a stand still on that front?

I'm sure the future will be different as is expected when a large power claims its place. Whether the losses will be in the West or primarily in the Third World will be a major question. So far, the Chinese seem not too much into large scale empire building, but primarily exercising control over "their backyard", similar to Russia in Ukraine etc and the US in Latin America. But that might change, of course, if they ever become the most powerful nation with a similar margin over the rest as the US has enjoyed for the last decades.

But it is cultural genocide with widespread, systemic rape, torture and murder.

Also it is questionable about whether they are free to leave the Xinjiang area.

Local sources like the NCHRD had the number of concentration camp inmates at 2 to 3 million already back in 2018. Of course it is possible that most have starved since or have become organ donors, so numbers are hard to pin down.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-...

Let’s go through it piece by piece:

    1. Doesn’t define how IQ was measured in each country
    2. Doesn’t state when for each country
    3. Doesn’t define how the average was calculated
    4. Doesn’t provide any data on rate of change of IQ - this is important, for those not aware IQ tests are reframed every few years to keep most people on the 85-115 range. The revision trend is always upwards so far - it’s arguable that we’re getting smarter because of flaws in IQ as a concept but we’re certainly becoming more capable in the modern world which is not controversial 

    6. China’s one-child policy formally ended 5 years ago after many years of gradual reductions in restrictions
    7. China is actively trying to walk back the damage of its 1 child policies and is incentivising married couples to have more than 1 child (and somewhat confusingly, has actually been doing this since before the end of the 1 child policy)

    8. No country anywhere is pursuing dysgenic strategy
    9. Welfare - help given to people who need it. I am intrigued what you actually mean here, are you suggesting we should let people die who can Otherwise be saved by provision of assistance?
    10. Intake of migrants from “lower iq” countries - are these doctors and engineers on Visas or asylum seekers and refugees from areas rendered uninhabitable by war, climate or lawlessness?

If not using eugenic strategies means loosing some war, I think I would opt for defeat and welcome our new Chinese overlords.

The UK did a lot of that in the 1950s through the 1980s, and it resulted in "lemon socialism" - the government had all the declining industries. Coal, steel, and railroads, mostly.

Japan did better, with MITI telling industry what to do, and advanced the country enormously. Until the 1989 bubble collapse and real estate crash, from which Japan never fully recovered.