China exceeds the US in international trade and is building high speed rail to connect the world. Their influence is there but less noisy than the US.
Militarily, the mainstream media needs to wake up. China is building countermeasures to major US weapons systems. They have anti-satellite ability and just tested their hypersonic missile this week past.
The US carrier fleet is obsolete in an all out war. The DF-21 "Carrier Killer" missile was tested in a Chinese desert. It's designed to come straight down on the deck and the Chinese can build a thousand of them for the price of one US carrier.
The M-1 tank may be obsolete because of the "Kornet" antitank weapon. The Aegis missile defense system may be overcome by new Russian jamming. The F-35 stealth jet is so expensive that Britain and Israel are balking at the price and the Chinese stole its plans and are building a much cheaper version.
There's more but I am amazed that military experts aren't expressing alarm over what's emerging. They seem overcome by the fact that the US spends so much more for defense and not asking, "what is that money actually buying?".
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