I'd be interested in seeing the numbers for that claim broken down if you can cite them. From napkin math it seems hard to make the budgets line up, unless we're doing a very large purchasing power parity adjustment?
The real equivalence to US defense budget in term of size is actually the infrastructure construction budget. While both budgets boost the economy , infrastructure budget improves the life of local people. Now as the most cities in coast areas run out of project to build, the over capacity cultivated in early years is poured to other directions: rural areas, undeveloped provinces, and even overseas especially Africa and Latin America. It's amazing that China changes very fast year by year as I visited some rural areas.
Ionically this behavior of infrastructure building sounds like Chinese MAGA to me: mind our own business, focus on improve ourselves instead of spread values to other countries.
This is not jingoism. The PRC has not been around very long and it's already conquered a neighbor, fought multiple wars for land, and continues to build up its military to subjugate Taiwan.
Being replaced with a liberal democracy would DEFINITELY be an improvement, even if these tariffs won't do it.
You can call it whatever you want. People who have fled shitty regimes have a much better sense for propaganda than you do, evidently.
I do. The World will be just fine as the American empire fades and the US becomes just another country. Even for the American people, for the average persons, it will be an improvement.
I don't believe you.
> From a western standpoint, this is amazingly helpful because it’s a form of Chinese self destruction and waste.
As a Westerner, as a human, I reject this zero-sum mentality.
From a western standpoint, this is amazingly helpful because it’s a form of Chinese self destruction and waste.