The Chinese are determined to be number one, and will be.
In the USA, politicians are most concerned about how to slice up the economic pie instead of baking more pies.
“The Chinese are determined to be number one, and will be.”
We spend 16% of GNP on health care, they spend 6%. We are lawyered to the hilt, they obviously are not, also in the GNP. We have 100M people plus fully living off the government, they likely have less, even with a population 4 times our size. They build and sell twice as many cars as us, multiple times more concrete poured, same with steel, electricity, and just about everything else measurable.
...bottom line, they’ve long-since passed us, but they’re happy to not brag about it, since, if they did, we might have done something SMART, like getting with Russia to take them on.