China's Xi may be screwing up as badly as Biden, maybe even worse

Many fatalists see America in decline and China ascendent. China's dictator, Xi Jinping, agrees in public. But beneath that facade are gigantic problems that seem all but invisible to many in the West.

Many fatalists see America in decline and China ascendant. China's dictator, Xi Jinping, agrees in public. But beneath the shiny new infrastructure, the amazing economic growth and competitiveness, China faces a reckoning, just as it prepares to mark a century of its Communist Party.

We can thank President Trump for the belated recognition that China is the most important strategic threat to the United States. As little as two years ago, Joe Biden stupidly dismissed the idea that China was a threat:

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday night that China was "not competition" for the U.S., prompting blowback from prominent members of both political parties.

At an event in Iowa City, Biden was explaining why he believes concerns that China could eventually surpass the U.S. as a world superpower and economic force are overstated.

"China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man," the former vice president said.

"I mean, you know, they're not bad folks, folks. But guess what? They're not competition for us," he added.

Now, even Biden and the most establishmentarian of diplomatic commentators recognize that China is the geopolitical threat to face this century. Fareed Zakaria in the Washington Post:

In a country that is divided on almost everything, one area of bipartisanship in the United States is alive and growing — fear of China. "The Chinese are eating our lunch," says President Biden. Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri says they "are well on their way" to achieving their goal of world "domination." Experts warn that China's Belt and Road Initiative and vaccine diplomacy are bolstering its soft power.

[This is a reply by @MaxDenken to my post last night about IQ and nations. Denken is the author of “Camp of the Sane”]

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-camp-of-the-sane-and-the-camp-of-the-saints-poland-and-the-erosion-of-western-sanity-2015-2020

There is another aspect to this mega-sabotage of America by a curious cabal of its Socialists and its Capitalists: the Chinese are doing the opposite. Here is a relevant excerpt from my book:

“The ultimate cost of this civilizational madness has already been tallied by a brave academic, Byron Roth, in his The Perils of Diversity. Because of the relentless import of lower-IQ “immigrants,” by mid-century the average American IQ will have declined from 98 to 95 and the percentage of Americans with an IQ of 120-plus will decline from 7.1 to 4.8. To this we must add the further dysgenic effect and IQ decline that books such as Roth’s do not cover: the universal wailing over “white privilege” and its “racist” Protestant work ethics and “white” standards of rationality, hard work, study, and objectivity. Bringing down America’s education and workplace performance standards to those of “people of color” rather than measuring the POCs, like everyone else, by the same white standards—be the results what they may—is a recipe for civilizational downfall....

This dive in IQ will profoundly impair American and West-European innovation, technology, economy and military strength, while China’s will rise to a position of absolute world dominance, as the lone superpower. And Roth did not reckon further with Helmut Nyborg’s “decay of Western civilization” due to the “double relaxed Darwinian selection” that adds the effect of the variance in different social classes’ breeding rates to the effect of group differences in IQ. Nor did he reckon with China’s eugenic policy that has 4,000 researchers at BGI-Shenzhen sequencing genomes of 1,000 very-high-IQ people from around the world for sets of IQ-controlling alleles. The results should allow every Chinese family to increase their offspring’s IQ by 5 to 15 points at least for the next generation or two.

“After a couple of generations,” wrote evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller, “it would be game over for Western global competitiveness.” Again, much too optimistic. With self-kneecapping via “white privilege” and semiliterate-immigrants’-loving America driving its average IQ down to maybe 90, and China’s average IQ at, say, 115, not “generations” but 25 years from now the United States, the greatest power the world has ever known, will have turned itself into a pool of water-drawers and wood-choppers for the Chinese, living with hyperinflated currency because of its ruling elite’s short-sighted lootism, cowardice, and stupidity.

We, who live in the first half of the 21st century, are witnessing the conversion of the American republic, whose emergence was one of the key miracles of history, into an inferior racial circus—a banana republic ruled by tribal chieftains “of color” and their white handlers; a laughingstock to its foes around the world.”

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