Lost already. When half your country doesn’t believe in the basic process of science and the dominant political force has been doing everything it can for 50 years to kill education, you tend to lose the edge in innovation. Heck, even the research that does still happen in the US is more and more being conducted by immigrants.
The lead is gone, has been gone for a long time, and is not coming back.
It happened few years ago, u.s. Is just losing the capacity to mask or change the rules to favour them, China is the real rising dragon from this era
GEE I WONDER WHY. Gawd I hate the future.
Chinese 2025 plan: science, technology, higher quality
US Heritage 2025 plan: Onward to Westeros!
The US lost a while back, it just hasnt registered yet. The US is essentially France in the early 1800s. Emptying out of influence , innovation and wealth, and trying to pretend its still living in its glory days of empire, soon to be a hollow shell of decay, empty of any real strength beyond cuisine and secondhand culture.
I think US influence will fade faster than France, and be remembered less fondly. And they have the conservatives to blame. I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords. a hearty Ni Hao to you all.
US won’t even have a cultural legacy like France does. Hot dogs, Jersey Shore, and Las Vegas don’t hold a candle to Crème Brulée, Rénoir, et Montmartre.
France in the early 1800s was conquering Europe and establishing the foundations of European civil law.
Did you have a different century in mind?
TIL conquering 300k square miles of Europe is what failure looks like
This is literally what the administration has tried to accomplish. It’s like saying “the Russians are successfully hacking half of our country’s routers” while at the same time lifting sanctions so they could buy network equipment and computers to do this
Matter of time
no shit. If Honda’s pres said that last month with as conservative as they are as far as risk, well. Send all the CEOs and bigwigs there so they can see for themselves too i guess.
Meanwhile at a Stellantis boadroom:
“Why are these Chinese cars selling so well? Maybe we can get out market share back with an 800-hp piece of shit rattlecan that has the build quality and comfort of a wet fart.”
I’ll believe it when it doesn’t all fall apart in a few years lol.
