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Wonderful recommendations, I am going through it right now myself.
What the Chinese have is a formal system, and I can't quite tell if the informal liberal system isn't worse. This was a point of contemplation for Andrei Navrozov as an emigrant from USSR to US in the 1970s in his book "The Gingerbread Race" [1]
> [1] https://archive.org/details/NavrozovAndreiTheGingerbreadRace...
.. and American infrastructure is in a state of serious decay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_blackout
Compare this to Chinese infrastructure and engineering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_island#China
"accurate polls on political topics in totalitarian countries is tricky because the respondents are incentivized/pressured to answer in support of the current regime.
Are we describing China or Brexit/Trump polls from 2016.
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Currently, the above is not even a policy choice considered openly by Western governments, not that I know of. We are forfeiting technological lead in this domain despite US making the first big steps in same domain in WW II and later with state backing, history plays jokes like that I guess.
Too many people are brain wormed by ideas stemming from liberal philosophies. China is not benevolent, they're rising power. They don't share same ideas of society as we do. Free markets haven't existed in hundreds of years. Yet all are influential ideas that stop us from addressing China realistically. Talk of bringing democracy to China for example is not realistic. The Communist Party has 90%+ acceptance rate by the populace.
I would believe much more into pollution talk by my dear leaders if 1. We were springing up nuclear reactors 2. Stopping third world immigration into Europe 3. Had concrete trade moratoriums against India and China. This would probably cause issues with US defense and military industries though, the situation is rather fragile [1]
> [1] https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/americas-mo...
Oh, it's another TDS victim, not surprised.