>>10277279>an ambitious and clear global strategy up to 2049>investing about 1,000 billion $ in AI alone over the next 20 or so years>thousands of Chinese students and researchers visiting the (at present) best universities in the west and bringing their knowledge and skills when they return home>huge investments in infrastructure both in China and abroad (Sri Lanka, Africa, Pakistan, parts of Europe), on a scale the like of which the world has never seenAnd that's just a fraction of China is up to at the moment.
I am not a Chinese government shill, all I'm saying is that the West better stop debating transgender toilets and get it together, otherwise the western countries will be not much more than museums by the middle of the century.
Things being as they are, my money is on the Chinese, like it or not.
Let's see if you will call me retarded in 2049.