China is displaying even more of its powerhouse industrial and technological might<\/a>. Nothing to worry about. Other places are trying to do similar things\u2026in other parts of the world. Any notion that we need to fear or worry is, of course, mindless fear mongering. We are assured of that. Of course we haven\u2019t really done anything to wow the world recently, have we. We stood down the USSR in the Cold War, but most people give the USSR credit there, and blame us for the troubles anyway and said we screwed up how we did it. The last really big building project was the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, but they\u2019re not around any more. Our bridges collapse, our levees break. We can\u2019t seem to get ourselves out of financial trouble without asking for money from, well, China. That\u2019s the same China that continues to wow the world with its accomplishments, the same China only fear mongers worry about. I wonder if folks in Europe, who pointed to the United States in the early 20th century and said, \u201cThey\u2019ll be running the show soon,\u201d were smacked down as fear mongers. I wonder if we assume that if China does emerge, things won\u2019t be any worse than they were under the Evil Empire (that\u2019d be us). Sometimes I wonder what historians of the world powers will say about our country a hundred years from now. Moreover, I wonder what language they will be writing in when they say it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So China is displaying even more of its powerhouse industrial and technological might. Nothing to worry about. Other places are trying to do similar things\u2026in other parts of the world. Any notion that we need to fear or worry is, of course, mindless fear mongering. We are assured of that. Of course we haven\u2019t really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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