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::In addition, [https://fortune.com/2024/09/08/china-economy-peak-growth-model-dead-end-garbage-time-of-history-xi-jinping/ China laments ‘garbage time of history’ as economy comes off peak and growth model hits dead end, expert says]. China is a middle-income country stuck in the middle-income trap and the USA is a high-income country by a large margin. Besides its oppressive regime, China is much poorer than the USA and has less economic opportunity and that is why many people (including millionaires in China) are leaving China and flocking to the USA. See: [[Essay: Top 12 reasons why people are flocking to the USA and leaving the corrupt, authoritarian countries of China and Russia]]  

::In addition, [https://fortune.com/2024/09/08/china-economy-peak-growth-model-dead-end-garbage-time-of-history-xi-jinping/ China laments ‘garbage time of history’ as economy comes off peak and growth model hits dead end, expert says]. China is a middle-income country stuck in the middle-income trap and the USA is a high-income country by a large margin. Besides its oppressive regime, China is much poorer than the USA and has less economic opportunity and that is why many people (including millionaires in China) are leaving China and flocking to the USA. See: [[Essay: Top 12 reasons why people are flocking to the USA and leaving the corrupt, authoritarian countries of China and Russia]]  

::Ultimately, military power rests on economic power in the long-term and the economy of China is not as favorable as the economy in the USA. See: [[Essay: The USA has one of the highest labor productivity rates in the world - significantly higher than both China and Russia]] and [[Essay: The United States will be the leading power in the world for the foreseeable future]] and [[Essay: Is the USA an economic powerhouse and juggernaut?]] and [[Essay: The USA is more innovative and productive than China and Russia]] and [[Essay: High income countries are rarely authoritarian countries in our technological age driven by innovation]] and [[Essay: Business is more powerful than military might. All REAL Americans know this!]].  

::Ultimately, military power rests on economic power in the long-term and the economy of China is not as favorable as the economy in the USA. See: [[Essay: It's time to be very bearish about China's long-term economy]] and [[Essay: The USA has one of the highest labor productivity rates in the world - significantly higher than both China and Russia]] and [[Essay: The United States will be the leading power in the world for the foreseeable future]] and [[Essay: Is the USA an economic powerhouse and juggernaut?]] and [[Essay: The USA is more innovative and productive than China and Russia]] and [[Essay: High income countries are rarely authoritarian countries in our technological age driven by innovation]] and [[Essay: Business is more powerful than military might. All REAL Americans know this!]].  

::Colonel [[Douglas MacGregor]] said about China in the video [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P7V9JdGs76g Why China's Navy is a JOKE]: "China has huge problems just holding itself together. So I think we should set China aside and understand that."[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P7V9JdGs76g] See: [[Essay:Skepticism about China remaining a global power|Skepticism about China remaining a global power]]  

::Colonel [[Douglas MacGregor]] said about China in the video [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P7V9JdGs76g Why China's Navy is a JOKE]: "China has huge problems just holding itself together. So I think we should set China aside and understand that."[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P7V9JdGs76g] See: [[Essay:Skepticism about China remaining a global power|Skepticism about China remaining a global power]]