pmdulaney 5 hours ago

"China can't win."

These words can be understood in one of two ways:

1. China, it will turn out, does not have what it takes to prevail.

or

2. We must not allow the Chinese to prevail.

Whether rightly or wrongly, No. 1 is intended.

casey2 2 hours ago

I don't buy any of these arguments. Transistor density is completely irrelevant in running a country meanwhile Trump is sending tropes to "warzone" that is portland. There is no 5D chess going on, just political posturing and delusion, even the presidents advisors all disagree both with eachother and past versions of themselves.

The US, Japan and western Europeans countries all made a huge mistake by dismantling their industrial core, millions that could be working are sat either jobless or working useless menial jobs. That mistake alone means china is literally too big to fail no matter what happens the rest of the world (which does exist, sorry America) will bail china out of any problems it has so they can maintain their QoL

Chips don't matter, 99.9% of problems can be solved with chips from the 80s. What maters is public infrastructure which the US is sorely lacking