re: #13 William Lewis

The real irony of all of this is that we will die, as a superpower, via the Russians but it remains the Chinese who will pick up the pieces because even with us gone, the Russians are too weak to do so.

But the Chinese are not.

The US would do well to start studying how the Vietnamese have held off the Chinese for as long as they have because that’s the only long term hope we have.

China may rise as a superpower, but they will not be the lone superpower. If not the US, then perhaps the EU will be the counterbalance to the authoritarianism that China offers the world. I also suspect that at some point, China’s economy will be strong enough that the economic prosperity will come into conflict with the government’s desire to control everything. And with over a quarter of the population still living under the poverty line, there’s always room for class warfare.