>>surpri+(OP)
I’m sitting in an electric car in a large Chinese city right now. Looking around I count 7/10 cars are electric, easily recognizable by green license plates, all from brands I’ve never seen in the US. The electric cars are cheap and I don’t see any evidence that they are poor quality. It feels like there’s absolutely something transformative happening here which the US is missing out on.
>>canjob+RK1
This level of production at a high level of quality also means military capability too. They can build way more drones, bombs , whatever at scale now.
>>Gigach+hO1
Not really honestly. It is a reality that falling behind manufacturing means America also becomes less of a military powerhouse. Something that I’m genuinely happy about anyway.
>>aaomid+BO1 > America also becomes less of a military powerhouse. Something that I’m genuinely happy about
Why so? Sure, it would be a nice world if no country was a military powerhouse, but that's not the world we live in. If the choice is between the US or China being the military powerhouse, why would you pick China?