Unit2Sucks said:
dajo9 said:
China has a huge property collapse and economic slowdown unfolding. Everything is changing for them.
We're seeing an increasing number of Chinese migrants at the Southern border and it's not because everything is great in China. It's called runxue and reflects some of the despair young Chinese face with the lack of opportunities, particularly for college grads.
One thing the haters of America will never want to acknowledge is that America is still a huge draw for the best and brightest in the world. We see far more migration from China than to China (6 figures per year). Ditto for India. And China has seen net migration out while America continues to see extremely strong net migration in.
Russia is even more drastic. I've known a lot of Americans who have lived in China or even moved to China but precious few who would even consider living in Russia, let alone actually doing it.
So while we see Russian shills telling us how great Russia is, none of them would ever consider moving there. The wealthiest Russians make their money from the kleptocracy off the backs of the Russian poor, but they live outside Russia and spend their money elsewhere. With the exception of many wealthy Chinese (and Indians), the wealthiest people generally want to live in the West. But make no mistake there are still plenty of wealthy Chinese who take their talents to the US (I know of several just in my kids' classes at school who made their money in China before immigrating here). The whole anchor baby thing is more evidence of the phenomenon.
The West certainly isn't perfect, but it's still a far more desirable place to be than the authoritarian countries that a lot of America haters disingenuously promote.
Your perspective, in addition to being comically passive aggressive, is culturally out of touch on two levels, both as an ideological true believer, and a well-off professional from a big coastal city.
-The trajectory of the US economy and social structure has not been very good, and pointing this out should not make one a Russian or CCP shill. Many sectors of US economic activity like healthcare, education, housing, urban policies etc are nearly dysfunctional, and getting worse all the time.
In the 1980s, someone like Al Bundy could raise a family, buy a home in Chicago on a shoe salesman salary. Today, a working couple with the same type of job can barely afford to rent an apartment. The middle class is getting squeezed out, and the ranks of the working poor are growing. Students are graduating with huge debts and fewer high-paying opportunities.
You'd have to be really set in your ideological blinders to not acknowledge this state of things.
-Acknowledging that other countries are doing better, and have had better trajectories in terms of their economic development (albeit for many, starting from a much lower position) also does not make one a shill.
The challenges that China face look somewhat trivial compared to many of those we face here or in W. Europe. A growing share of their students who went abroad are now coming back home: