This is an *oh sh*t* moment for the US that needs to wake the entire nation up - but likely won't.
China is not just a much larger manufacturing economy - they are technically more advanced than the US is.
The hypersonic missiles, the numerous bullet trains, the 5G factories
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using AI, and now blowing past us with chip production - the old days are gone. Keep in mind that we are importing the technical knowhow to supposedly build our own new CHIP factories, because we don't it. We need the Taiwanese and S Koreans to do it.
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There are a lot of Americans asleep in the past, thinking the US still has the manufacturing, military and technological superiority that it no longer has.
The idiots in our government thought they could cut off the Chinese from "our" advanced technology.
We've been
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teaching Chinese PhD students everything we know for decades now, for a tiny fraction of the cost that it took to develop that knowledge, the great majority of even our supposed secrets have been fed to China - and they don't need to steal anymore.
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Worst of all, the woke Left is destroying what remains of our educational system, as well as merit-based science.
The right has always known there was a problem with our schools. There will be no reversing this without a wholesale redefinition of our schools & universities.
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