Remember when the common wisdom was to learn Chinese because it might become the lingua franca and because people might have to work with Chinese people in the workplace?
Imagine tiktok manifesting that reality in the fastest way possible
Xi watching Deng get struck down by Reagan: “Noooooo!!!”
One of the few things I can enjoy now days is the slow progression away from western-created mediums to Chinese. It’s just entertaining to see capitalists destroyed because they fell into their own self-idolization and forgot how to “do” capitalism. The invisible hand of the market is simply picking the superior product…
(I just like repeating that last part to piss off liberals. They can’t deny it (it’s like their god) so they just sputter out claims of “cheating” or “stealing IP!” and whatever else. The daily overdose on cope is warping their brains further than I would’ve imagined possible years ago)
The stealing IP thing is so dumb. That was The Deal.
It makes complete sense that China will slowly become the center of culture over the US as people get richer there.
Also, they’re way bigger! The US having such an outsized influence on culture is just a factor of imperialism.
Yeah, by percent of total world population metrics alone, the US and broadly the West has held far more dominance over world culture than it ever “should have” and for far too long. (Obviously these things aren’t like laws of nature, thus the quotes)
Beyond that simple fact of shifting winds of culture as China (and India- not a fan of their government, but obviously by population they will hold a dominant cultural position in the future as well) continues to blossom, the West/US has become lazy and complacent in… everything. It’s no secret that US students have fallen behind in every metric for decades now as Chinese students rise and rise. Their universities now pump out academic papers rivaling all of the “top” universities of the west in the US, Canada, UK, EU broadly. By sheer numbers, and considering the broad decline of research in the US, China is only going to continue to gain dominance in all technology sectors, medical, everything and the US will soon be the country begging the Chinese for their IPs to produce life-saving stuff in the US.
As a Burger, that part brings me no joy, yet I know the blame lays squarely on the US government and the capitalists intertwined with it who foolishly thought they could forever dominate the East and have refused for two decades now to concede to the inevitable and “make peace” with China (and a fair peace with India not built on further exploitation). They thought that sanctions and threats would turn the obvious trajectory… all while fueling the rocket of their own demise. Still, even now, seemingly suicidal capitalists and those in congress, etc. think futile efforts like banning a social media app will stop the march of inevitability.
The only question is will they awaken to the reality of a multi-polar world and accept the US’ future position, or will they kill us all as their futile gestures become more and more desperate leading towards world war. The trajectory currently is clear. It seems as if only divine intervention will slap the capitalists back to reality, but we’ll see
Libs will cry about how China is stealing IP while saying Thomas Edison was one of the smartest men that ever lived. It’s just racism all the way down
