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President Jimmy Carter this weekend offered the most profound insights of any modern politician in what America must do to win the 21st century. “Since 1979, do you know how many times China has been at war with anybody?” Carter asked. “None. And we have stayed at war.”
“How many miles of high-speed railroad do we have in this country?” he asked. While China has some 18,000 miles of high-speed rail, the U.S. has “wasted, I think, $3 trillion” on military spending. “It’s more than you can imagine. China has not wasted a single penny on war.”
“And...if you take $3 trillion and put it in American infrastructure you’d probably have $2 trillion leftover. We’d have high-speed railroad. We’d have bridges that aren’t collapsing..Our education system would be as good as that of say South Korea or Hong Kong.”
I am glad @realDonaldTrump called @CarterCenter. We need to listen to the wisdom of President Carter on North Korea outcompeting China. At stake is whether free enterprise, democracy or authoritarianism will be the model for the world.
