Look up a video in Shenzhen or Chongqing. Everything looks 2 decades out, and the giant crystal skyscrapers light up different colors. Sometimes the whole thing is a TV.

China surpassed USAmerica in GDP already, but it doesn’t look close to tied in development and advanced technologies.

The trains there go hundreds of miles in less than an hour, you could commute across the country every day.

Meanwhile in America the “middle class” is struggling to have some walls and a roof. Record debt and crumbling infrastructure. How is all of this ignored and not talked about everywhere?

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    My uncle is from the US, when I talked about the cities he said that “the Chinese are using up all the resources!”

    I was surprised, I had never heard that before. I didn’t have a response, what could I have I said? I don’t even know how he got to that conclusion, something about ghost cities and poor utilization of resources because of no oversight I guess. Even though he decried planned economies a few sentences before.

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      Ah well, you see, if the resources of the colonial periphery are being used by the USA and it’s hegemons it’s good and efficient, if it’s being used by China or the third world, it’s wasteful.

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      Ah yes, the trade balance definitely does not betray an enormous imbalance of garbage being imported into the US. Precisely who here is using up all the resources?