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[Kuros]

Yan Xuetong, the infamous Chinese hawk, provides his advice on how China can beat America.

Yan Xuetong - How China Can Defeat America

[young_clinton]

[sublunari]

"We must make our country perfect, if we are to be perfect!"

[Menino80]

YXT is a bit of a dinosaur, politically speaking, in the CCP. But I'd expect him and his ilk to get a lot of love from the 网民. God help us if China ever goes democratic. There's a lot of angry unmarriable men out there who really like to hate on everything outside of China's borders.

[Leslie Cheswyck]

[young_clinton]

Basically China will kill any future parity it could obtain with the west with its ridiculous cultural sensitivities and its resentment over being backwards for centuries like all asian countries. Both of those issues are used by asian politicians to mantain the status quo and to keep thier place at the top of the system. If China ever guaranteed its people the right to pursue happiness within the established norms that are common to the west then I don't think there would be any problems. In fact an economically succesfull Chinese population with the majority of the population able to live reasonably well would only bring about more prosperity for the rest of the world. But there will always be an autocracy in China that relies on stealing and graft to bring about money for its cronies.

In terms of technological ability the West is not losing to China but is rapidly widening the gap. Ironically it's the smart educated asians immigrating to the West that are bringing this about.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[comm]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Unposter]

I believe I understand your point but I guess that is why they want to do it like the U.S. but only better.

The problem I see is that what has made Chinese successful is autocratic rule, lack of any enforceable regulations to the point where many foods and manufactured goods are dangerous and even lethal and de facto slave labor.

If China moves away from their formula for success, it may be in for a shock. They may not be as competitive as they think.

There is a lot of talk about an "Asian Century" but it is more likely to be the 22nd than the 21st in my opinion.

Japan has been seriously set back by environmental disasters.
South Korea is teetering on the bursting of a real estate bubble that if pops will bring the entire country to its knees.
China works as a forced labor camp but it is nowhere near ready to compete in the highly skilled markets.

Asia may be rising but it has quite a hill to climb.

On the other hand, I do think that increased competition from Asia and the rest of the planet will negatively impact salaries in North America and Europe unless there is government intervention.

I think taxes need to be raised on businesses and high income earners but those taxes can be offset by investing in the U.S. and providing reasonably well paid jobs.

Just cutting taxes and then seeing investors take their money abroad is not the answer and a big part of the failure of the last 20 years.

[Kuros]

[Unposter]

I agree that the Chinese people would benifit a lot from deomocracy but I think it would ruin their current economic advantage and niche in the world market.

It won't be easy for China to transition to democracy and the costs might be surprisingly high.

Maybe, I am handicapped by my cynicism but I wouldn't be surprised if some investors/companies have positioned themselves in China not because of its democratic future but specifically because it is not a democracy - just as investors and businesses used to position themselves in Central and South American dictatorships - they saw the lack of democracy as an advantage.

[rollo]

I read this gibberish in the New York Times and I really do not know why they published it. It brings up no new ideas and like all the other poorly written papers written by Chinese academics it relies on alluding to some long past dynasty as some paradise instead of the feudal hell it actually was. Just rubbish. Even the title betr.ays that the author is limited intellectually. He or his family bought him a degree and a professorship. What is meant by defeat the U.S. In a war? The Olympics? Just high schooli
sh crap. About what is expected of a society which throws away it's best and brightest in favor of ideological purity.

[The Floating World]

Yeah the whole rise of China thing is crud.

Rise of a few wealthy people / barons sure, but not the nation as a whole on any competative level other than selling cheap crap. In the arts alos perhaps.

Look how crap their tv's etc are compared to Korean ones. And the cars lol....

[Ya-ta Boy]