[Little Ray]

Doesn’t this sound a lot like the stuff they were writing about the Japanese in the 80’s or 90’s?
IIRC, the hucksters took the poor Japs for all their hard-earned US dollars, and now the they’re in a perpetual recession.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Doesn’t this sound a lot like the stuff they were writing about the Japanese in the 80’s or 90’s?

I have made that same observation myself.

The fact that the population of China is so much greater than ours leads me to believe that their situation is even more fragile than ours.