Getting rid of democracy won't turn the US into China, it will turn it into Russia.

At the same time, they are lamenting aging infrastructure and cumbersome regulations in the United States, and an economy that can’t seem to make screws or drones, or the machines that manufacture them.

The thing is, the world doesnt actually need this much manufacturing capacity. We dont need AI and we dont need drones if we stop starting pointless wars...

Bridges being slow to build is not a problem, because we dont need more cars, we need less cars. If you divert all the labor spent on useless shit towards actual things that people need then there is no need for a 996 work style.

The Chinese model being superior to the US model is not a revelation, we've known this for decades:

…if a country's goal is economic growth above all other considerations, the truly winning combination would appear to be neither liberal democracy nor socialism of either a Leninist or democratic variety, but the combination of liberal economics and authoritarian politics…or what we might term a "market-oriented authoritarianism."

• Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, 1992

There's no better socioeconomic model than the Chinese model IF the goal is economic growth "above all other considerations." Should we value growth above all else? I don't think so, but many people do, especially the rich and powerful.

Honestly, it reveals more about authoritarians and capitalists.

We need more China envy. What we have is complacency and a feeling that we don’t have to compete with anyone. which isn’t accurate

So the same companies that outsourced everything and cut local suppliers to the point that they shut down are now complaining about not having local suppliers or modern infrastructure? Talk about being short sighted.