Here's his impressions.
Yes, China gets things done. There are actually internal debates on policy. I know I’ve been there and interviewed people in government on policy issues and was given free rein to talk to people in government, academia and the private sector. They spy on everyone and men more so on foreigners.
Yet, the innovations that drive their growth were stolen from the West. We are the fools for helping them become a superpower on theft and not creating better trade deals. Trump is absolutely right about that.
We also have become infected with self-loathing by our moonlit Leftists. China does not tolerate self-loathing. I think that is the bottom line. The Chinese are proud of being Chinese and proud of the Han culture and will do everything to preserve it.
Half our population wants to destroy us — poisoned by the Left. The Left Delenda Est — or we die.
Sometimes, the truth, or at least shades of the truth hurt. The great advantage China has is in its monolithic and communal culture. China is not ordained to dominate the world, but America seems to be making it it easy for them to do so.
China is headed toward a Revolution from within.
After three generations of single child policy they have a large population of adults who are self centered and often spoiled. There is nothing that can keep the human soul from growing and eventually it grows beyond dependency and rebels like a teenager to find the freedom to grow further.
Freedom is necessary for a soul to grow and nothing can shackle it for long.
Have you received this month’s check from President Xi yet?
Living in Vietnam?
Interesting. It seems the guy is quite a writer and a veteran, and it is certainly possible he is living here.
But I just found a website which says he is living in Ajijic, Jalisco Mexico.
Maybe he lives both places.
https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/Fred_Reed/
Ol’ Fred is wrong on most of his pints though. Our Debt to GDP: 100% and holding...yes holding, as our economy is expanding roughly as fast as our debt. China’s is 240% or so and growing, though ALL of their data is suspect. They do not use generally accepted accounting practices. Our economy is now doing better than any time since the ‘60’s, and in some cases ever, and getting better. Theirs is doing the worst since the ‘70’s. Thanks to LESS government restrictions and regulations we not only have an economy that is the envy of the world and the most competitive place in the world to manufacture, we are now energy independent. China’s answer to their growing problems and inefficiencies of their state owned businesses is MORE government control. To say the Chinese are more intelligent than Americans is not just unsupported, it’s racist.
“Christianity is not illegal, but heavily repressed “
Just one example of the idiocy of this post.
We don’t need communist propaganda.
“In terms of economic systems, the Chinese are clearly superior. China runs a large economic surplus, allowing it to invest heavily in infrastructure and in resources abroad. America runs a large deficit. China invests in China, America in the military. China’s infrastructure is new, of high quality, and growing. America’s slowly deteriorates. China has an adult government that gets things done. America has an essentially absentee Congress and a kaleidoscopically shifting cast of pathologically aggressive curiosities in the White House.”
China’s infrastructure spending is incredibly wasteful. Entire city apartment blocks are crumbling from cheap construction techniques and lack for tenants, some being vacant going on 10 years (according to reports).
“America cannot compete with a country far more populous of more-intelligent people with competent leadership and the geographic advantage of being in Eurasia. Washington’s choices are either to start a major war while it can, perhaps force the world to submit through sanctions, or resign itself to America’s becoming just another country. Given the goiterous egos inside the Beltway Bubbble, this is not encouraging.”
From a strategic standpoint, being on the Eurasian landmass is a major disadvantage. You have very long borders that must be defended. Yeah, right now Russia is a half-@ssed ally, but when their interests begin to diverge that will no longer be true.
Fred is a great writer, but I’m compelled to quote Otter in “Animal House”, “Quiet he’s on a roll!
Fred is a pearl of the internet oyster.
China rises whlle the US floundered. There fixed it.
The days of Obama malaise are being over come.
Of course the democrats are trying their best to
put us right back behind the eight ball but I think
they have met their match in President Trump.
China does not allow its country to be attacked from within or without. Half of its citizens are not actively revolting like the democrats in this country are.