China is not “just china”, it’s a totalitarian regime without freedom if speech, without worker’s rights and without many/most of the freedoms we take for granted.
“China wins” is really “modern hyper/technological communist totalitarian regime wins”
Instead, China devised a hybrid economic system that is changing the West.
Just shows the complete naive view on China, but whatever.
And, btw, China actually does comfortably have the largest economy (PPP, i.e. the real stuff you can use), for over a decade.
Here are the approximate recent (2024–2025) GDP per capita figures for the two countries:
China
Nominal GDP per capita: about $12,500 – $13,000
PPP GDP per capita: about $22,000 – $24,000
Namibia
Nominal GDP per capita: about $4,500 – $5,500
PPP GDP per capita: about $9,000 – $11,000
A factor of 2-3x is not 'on par', tone down on the reality bending a bit, please.
[1] https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/PPPGDP@WEO/OEMDC/ADV... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
The fact that communism naturally evolves in totalitarianism should be noted.
You know, the USA is kinda going that direction.
> modern hyper/technological communist totalitarian regime wins
Yup, remove "communist" and be afraid of the semblance.
You can easily mock the orange man (trump) or the wife of the famous Epstein friend (Hilary and Bill) in the US. But you can’t mock winnie the pooh (xi jin ping) in china.
ctrl+f "arrested"
For how long?
I mean, you can also mock xinnie the pooh if you are willing to be lost in the ICE detention center web - I mean the Chinese prison system.
It changes nothing.
It's time to wake up and smell the coffee --- according to the World Bank, when adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP), China's economy is already larger than the USA and is growing 2x faster.
Name calling changes nothing --- China still wins.