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I wonder how many Americans quite understand what the United States is facing in its aggressive confrontation with China. Washington clearly prepares the public for another unnecessary war. Given America’s routine defeat in war and catastrophic miscalculations in fighting small powers, picking a fight with what, increasingly, is again becoming the Middle Kingdom seems less than bright. Yet within the Beltway there is the usual smug complacency, the unshakable arrogance that appears to think the China is just a big Norway or Guatemala that needs to be put in its place.
A quick glance at China:
China easily leads the world in civil engineering, building roads, bridges, ports, rail lines, long-distance high-voltage transmission lines, and digital infrastructure. People returning from China, including yours truly, describe it as being like coming back from a more advanced planet.
Everyone talks about the high-speed trains, with good reason: they travel at 180 miles per hour, and are quiet, comfortable, and have huge windows, with very short stops at villages between major cities, giving rural populations the speed of air travel without the nuisance. By contrast, American rail looks like something out of 1955.
The importance of civil engineering is more than symbolic. Infrastructure facilitates commerce. China is of course the manufacturing powerhouse of the world. By contrast, America simply ignores infrastructure, spending instead on the military and long since having largely abandoned manufacturing.
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China leads the world in shipbuilding, with South Korea being another major player in this game. America has almost no shipbuilding except for its Navy, and even this has been criticized by the Government Accounting Office for primitivism and slowness. Shipbuilding obviously is important for commerce, and also for military purposes — China now having the world’s largest navy.
China leads the world in 5G, as well as in patents, technology, manufacturing capacity, and installed base. This is not always well understood. 5G allows the transmission of large amounts of data with short response times: high throughput, low latency, as we say. Huawei now has what it calls 5.5G, an improved version. 5G is important for controlling factories, smart cities, and so on. Beijing takes it seriously, China now having around 3.6 million installed base stations versus something like 100,000 pseudo-5G base stations in the US.
China finds its brightest students by rigorous testing, and then sends them at government expense to its excellent universities. The US deliberately enstupidates its schools at all levels to make minorities look smarter than they are. How is this going to work?
China dominates the planet in electric vehicles. Its lead over the US is so great as to be insuperable in technology, batteries, price, and productive capacity. If you follow tech news, you see things like a Chinese electric vehicle (ev) battery that charges in ten minutes. As many have pointed out, BYD’s sub-$10,000 car will find an almost unlimited market in the Global South. No other country is even close. Biden’s high tariffs on Chinese evs will serve only to allow American companies to continue selling wildly overpriced vehicles to Americans who will have no choice.
China, Russia, and perhaps Iran have developed hypersonic missiles, of which America doesn’t have any. This is interesting. Americans have always assumed technological superiority over Russia and China. Judging by the poor performance of Western weaponry in the Ukraine, this seems questionable.
In other fields, America maintains a lead — or at least an important part lead — though usually not by competing, but by strong-arming, sanctions, and tariffs. The greatest of these is semiconductors. The situation is curious. The Chinese have the brains, engineers, and savvy to design and make high-end chips, but Washington has a stranglehold on the equipment needed to manufacture them. However, China has a recent history of horrifying Washington by doing things it wasn’t supposed to be able to do, such as make chips in seven and five nanometer nodes and stay neck-and-neck with the US in supercomputers. But it has not been able to make the advanced lithography tools needed at the forefront of the chip business. If it does, it will be Katie bar the door — but it hasn’t.
China leads the world in production of steel and aluminum. America can’t compete, so it imposes tariffs.
It leads the world in solar panels, and leads in technology, production capacity, and price. America can’t compete, so it imposes tariffs.
China remains behind America, but not by much, in aspects of its space program. However, it has an extensive and robust launch capacity, a successful space station in some ways more advanced than the International Space Station, and moves rapidly toward reusable launch vehicles. Years back now, it sent a successful fully-automated Moon-sample return mission to our satellite, and later, a combination Mars orbiter, lander, and rover, all functioning perfectly on the first try. NASA and SpaceX maintain a lead, but it isn’t a growth stock.
There are other fields in which America holds a lead. Jet engines, for example. My point is that Washington seems to suffer a recto cranial inversion, imagining a superiority it only barely has but probably, all things considered, doesn’t. China has four times the US population, the Han by agreement among psychometrists have a five or six point advantage in mean IQ, and an intelligent government focused on increasing its commercial superiority.
It is all the fashion in America to decry authoritarianism, but this allows Beijing to take decisions and then carry them out, over decades if need be. It also allows a noticeable system approach. In America, individual states or corporations undertake projects like high-speed rail or 5G. China tends to do things on a whole-country basis. The difference in results is clear.
Washington, which subsidizes its own industries, complains that Beijing does the same — but the Chinese system works.
What China doesn’t have is a sprawling, overextended, low-grade, incomprehensibly costly military draining funds desperately needed to bring America up to modern standards domestically. China is not an appendage of its military. It seems to have figured out that wars cost money and, if there is one thing the Chinese really really like, it’s money.
Sez I, a little more realism in the Yankee Capital might be a good idea, a bit less huff and puff, more spending on America and less on a blood-sucking arms industry. But what do I know?
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16 comments
At this late date, barring a nuclear exchange, the meta-political industry may be our best bet. Ain’t this the place to consider that?
Could the West’s most powerful weapon be its pop culture which seems to be formidable in corrupting youth, even the youth of our opponents.
Even 1960’s counter culture could be retrofitted. It may seem a bit dated to us but it could be retooled. It has already had an effect on those overachieving orientals in South Korea. See link.
Anecdotally, people in Taiwan have faith that eventually they will be reunited with the homeland and it will not be that bad because the Red Chinese will be as Americanized as the Taiwanese at that point.
https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/the-korea-blog/koreans-love-herman-hesses-demian-western-novels/
The fight with China is not our own fight, it is a fight between China and our own dysfunctional governments. Were they anywhere near smart, they would be avoiding a confrontation with China and selling out Taiwan, but “Western policy makers” like (((Soros))) really hate China for some reason and they’re not the brightest or most savvy bunch, just the most wealthy and ideologically organized, so they keep steering Western powers into conflict with China. Probably because its not their own people they’ll be sending into the trenches. Let us refuse to be their fools who go to war for them, let them be broken on the anvil of China if they so desire. Let them run a world war understaffed, unmotovated and under-funded, with a negrified Westernized 80 IQ soldiery that loathes struggle and discipline. I would love to see the outcome.
You beat me to it. The Chinese have a loyal and patriotic military willing to die for the cause. Over here even whitey is won’t be enlisting in big numbers.
This seems to be based on the assumption that we would not see civilian mass casualties in the American mainland—among which many White people.
However, war with China might not be like America’s historical wars. We would likely at least see fighting on American soil. You can forget about Hawaii.
China likely already has a small but well-trained sleeper army in the continental US, which is growing daily thanks to the open southern border.
So China and India are experiencing a 1950s-style resurgence on our dime, but this leaves us in a nice fix. We just had to ship our manufacturing abroad, now didn’t we? By “we” I mean all these obscenely overpaid executives who moan that American workers are too expensive. And the politicians let them get their way, because the closer you get to the top, Big Bidness and Big Gummint are pretty close to being the same thing. (Then there were all those pointy-headed economists who said how great it would be to export our jobs to the cheapest labor markets possible, but didn’t think about who’s going to buy the imported goodies at Wally World if the factory workers are permanently unemployed.) Myself, I hope things stay peaceful, but if things turn hot, it’ll turn out to be a bad idea to pick a fight with the country that makes all our goodies.
Since the antiwhite takeover of America and the West the American economy has destroyed production and the White working class essential to it, and the American economy is based on usury, cultural pollution, and the exploitation of choke points.
In order to destroy the White working class the rulers of the West offshored production as much as possible. This has led to the Chinese economy being the most productive in the world by a lot. Not being stupid, the Chinese understand their advantage.
The assumption that usurers are destined to rule and producers are destined to be dominated, exploited, and ultimately destroyed is historically unsafe, but it is inevitable that the kind of people who rule America and the West will hold to this assumption.
Based on this assumption the rulers of America and the West will provoke a conflict they feel sure to win. This can’t be avoided.
We should focus on our complete lack of any stake in the success and triumph of the antiwhite rulers of the West, under whose malign rule the White percentage of the North American population is going down. We have no stake in Team Antiwhite even when its shills look like us. Team Antiwhite’s defeat by China costs us nothing.
What about Mexico going full ZOG in this election?
DEI, IED, DIE… It all seems to spell future subservience to China. One of the most intriguing documents is the secret Marshall report on China’s racism. Steve Sailer did an efficient analysis.
I love how white nationalist constantly simp for the yellow Jews China pushes just as much anti white ideology through the control of their own technological apps as the United states that being said Chinese military generals make general white rage Millie look like genghis Khan in comparison.
It would be over in four months as soon as the United states strikes the Three Gorges Dam with long range ballistic missiles that’s the end of the conflict
Have to agree. Chinese are virulently anti-White. Fools on Unz praise them up and down while Chinese in the comments fantasize a genocide of whites. Unz’s response to this because he’s full of himself is not that he’s wrong about the Chinese it’s just that they’re bad at propaganda. No, I can say confidently the people there represent the stance of most Chinese. There’s a great Japanese writer on CC he went by Riki Rei or Comatose, I don’t remember he’s fluent in Chinese and had several articles on them.
The way Ron’s website pushes Chinese (and Russian) propaganda on its users while anyone who hints at nuance is immediately shot down makes me think either of:
1. It’s a spook operation
2. It’s internet autism at it’s finest.
The fundamental difference between the White World and the Yellow World is ancestor worship. At the cusp of culturcide during the ‘cultural revolution’, the Red Guard failed and, their approach to cultural annihilation was replaced with ‘Confucianism with Western Tendencies’ retaining a great deal of the old. On the other hand, the West’s cultural revolutionaries have, substantially, succeeded in destroying even the semblance of collective culture (or memory for that matter).
The Chinese are now like a great stone in a swirling sea and the West is a few waves lapping at it to little effect.
China will always be Chinese. They’re like a force of nature.
But the West will not always be White.
And that’s why WN’s need to see further into the future, to eject all of the baggage of the past on our own terms rather than those of our enemies. When the time comes to move, carry less and seek to hone one’s situational clarity.
China today is the country America was before World War I, full of energy, dynamism and a sense of common prosperity. Just like our government of yore, through its massive infrastructure projects such as subways, highways, endless tunnels, dams, bridges, skyscrapers, highways, bullet trains, glistening new airports, even their budding space program, and on, China’s government is creating a country that benefits ordinary citizens.
China’s government is creating a country that benefits ordinary citizens.
Tell that to Uyghurs and Qazaqs in Eastern Türkestan. Oh, they are not ordinary citizens, they are simply Türkic Untermenschen. Like Tibetians are. Like Mongols are.
Tell that to the Han teen who works 72 hours a week in the shrinking amounts of factories because he didn’t have the money for additional out of school classes and so failed the grueling high-school entrance exam.
Tell that to the old Han parent who saved up their entire life savings to buy real estate for a child who is giving them grandchildren because they are so tired when they come back home everyday and now their house is worth less and still inflated in cost because the population is shrinking while the unofficial home vancancy rate of nearly 50% (official 20%) is hidden so that a local official can grease his pockets enough to send his lazy kid abroad because he would fail the local exam.
Shiny buildings end up rusting under acid rain in less than a decade.
*Giving them no grandchildren
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