America lost the fight the minute it stared bragging about being great and stop working towards greatness.

Trouble is, Trump is making things even worse, not better

China is already out innovating us. The boat sailed 40 years ago. Manufacturing will not come back because it will cost too
much, our markets are degraded, buying power is down, US workers lack manufacturing experience. The bottom 20%, whatever it takes are expendable.

In striving for self wealth, our Capitalists Overlords blessed them, handing this to them on a silver platter with a loud resounding “Feed Me”.

The tech bros are part of this problem. They created the myth that they created it all themselves and didn't rely on government funded research, government education, government regulation ....

Add to that 2 key foundation pieces of TSMC , the world leader in semiconductor manufacturing, was US racism and the wise support of the Taiwanese government.

Works for China!

This is the breaking point? Really?

This scenario involves two trajectories:

#1 The undulating downward trajectory of US investment in its abilities and its *ethics*; intentional internal moronization and divisiveness.

#2 The Chinese dictatorship facing no consequences for its crimes, but instead they're given all the breaks. (Tibet is also just back in the news, for a single day)

1989 Tiananmen massacre = instant bygones with foreign investors queueing up to strike deals only weeks later;

1994 "Most Favoured Nation" MFN trade priviledges given;

2001 full WTO world trade priviledges given, also without any consequences for total disregard for rules;

Trillions in funding, expertise and technology transferred to Chinese control, much voluntarily out of greed, much stolen by the Chinese;

Millions of PRC subjects (those selected for exit permits) have been provided the highest technical and scientific education available by cullible democracies. Strategic *hard sciences* only thank-you-very-much.

Trumpian Murica committing educational seppuku is really nothing but yet another downward notch in America's trajectory hastening its self-inflicted downfall. The key turning points were 1989, 1994 and 2001 with the medias and the populations in the USA and other democracies just going with the China (CCP regime) normalization program.

Perhaps the reason I'm not a fan of the horror genre is because I watched all of this unfold in real time in slow motion.

Meanwhile America is on course to accelerate its descent at least for the next 3 1/2 years, and the Dems have offered no alternative to the China Empowerment process.

And the Chinese regime now controls, thanks to the last 30 years, everything it needs to harness its industrial might to build up global authoritarianism and to extinguish the regime's greatest existential threat: democracy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#us #science types are welcome in Australia

science.org.au/news-and-events…

Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia?

 

^{www.science.org.au}

China is investing massively in the future, while the US has turned its back on it, and is heading back to the past. fediscience.org/@hausfath/1147…

Zeke Hausfather

2025-06-30 22:45:35

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0…

China's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the Future

Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.

^{David Gelles (The New York Times)}

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