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> It didn't quite work out so now people are looking for other strategies.

World will bifurcate into West and East with their own spheres of influence. As JD Vance said, US thought that China will be perpetually kept busy and enslaved in low level manufacturing work and the design and higher level work would happen in Cupertino. Too bad, that didn't pan out well and now US Empire is getting challenged by China.

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> US thought that China will be perpetually kept busy and enslaved in low level manufacturing work

It's OK, they'll repeat the same mistake again with India this time, when they move manufacturing from China to there, and in 10-30 years when they'll elect a nationalist strongman there, he'll squeeze the west for everything they got.

Because what are you gonna do about it then? They have all your manufacturing and they also have nukes and more soldiers.

> in 30 years they'll electr a nationalist strongman

You’re about thirty years off on that estimate.

India is far ahead of that idea and already has legislation to encourage domestic manufacturing from global companies. Plus the nationalist government is in place.

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