I've noticed a drastic decline in the intelligence of posts on the internet over time, western education is failing the youth. Meanwhile Chinese education is extremely competitive and better structured in nature, often driving some children to suicide with the tasks that it demands of the students.
We got too complacent, and now China is going to win the AI race, they will master the art of conquering without traditional warfare methods within the century, while the west continues to focus their energy on internal conflicts fuelled by social media.
The Manhattan project equivalent of our generation was initiated by the Chinese government when the brightest mind of their national board game, Go, was embarrassed live on the big TV by a computer created by the west. It's all about the math, and the west is failing to train enough citizens in the right kinds of mathematics to remain dominant.
The western governments need to re-allocate funds towards cyber-training for soldiers, because they are currently not competing for any talent with their current salaries. The idea that we spend more on defense than most of the other 1st world countries combined, yet are so far behind China, makes me furious.
The bottom line is that China has more engineers and scientists than America does. They have better infrastructure. They have an economy capable of doing things that the US isn't. They have a government that is capable of actually getting things done. The US takes months to pass a single infrastructure bill. In that time, China will have laid hundreds to thousands of km of rail, built a university and 3 hospitals and installed 70GW of renewable energy.
I have no problem with China, my issue lies with the failures of the US to do anything meaningful in the past 30 years.

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