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That is a bit of propaganda there I think. In the 90s China was still poor, but starving is clearly an exaggeration, especially for a family could afford to migrate to Canada. Then again there are people starving in US even today.
shareChina was extremely poor decades ago. People did starve in the countryside, that's not an exaggeration.
Of course, times have changed. China is replacing US as the top superpower, while US is becoming a third word shithole. But hey, a very diverse shithole.
Do you think Trump was better for the US in trying to maintain its power?
shareNo. The problem in US is cultural. Trump wasn't a bad president, but he wasn't particularly good neither. I think the only good US president in the last 2-3 decades was Clinton. Trump was a very smart negotiator, but that's it. US debt spike-rocketed in his mandate, even there was no recession.
Any case, Trump didn't address the real problem of the country: you can't have several societies with different values. And right now you have at least three ones: the classic English-German protestant white one which built the country, the black one, which still keeps many African social values, and the Hispanic one. One of them will end up absorbing and replacing the other ones, and chances are it'll be the Hispanic one.
Actually, Republicans think that commies are behind the populism in the left, which is (I'm sorry to say) absolutely stupid. They don't get commies are long gone. The problem with American left right now is that it's just becoming the standard South-American hispanic left. You wanna know what's gonna happen in the future in US? I'd recommend this book:
https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Plinio-Apuleyo-Mendoza-ebook/dp/B009D1SL7Q
The question like that is too simplistic. I will explain.
Trump thinks the main problem of US is the trade deficit and the loss of US manufacturing sector. But trade deficit is the consequence of US dollar as the main international trade currency. To put it simply, for a country in trade deficit it's currency will weaken, reduce it's producing cost and trade will gradually balance. But the demand of US dollar for trade causes US dollar to strengthen, so free market can't work it's magic.
But what is bad for manufacturing is good for wall street. US dollar as the dominant international trade currency gives US banks a significant advantage, Soros could even use that advantage to attack UK and Asian economies, Goldman Sachs basically engineered EU debt crisis, that is the US financial power.
That phenomenon is detailed in the book:"Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business".
Trump losing the election in the hindsight was mainly because of Wall street given up on him, and gave all their support to Biden. Because if the trade were balanced and US manufacturing sector were back, that means US dollar would no longer be the main trade currency and that would be bad for wall street.
Now what do you think of Trump? Is he good for US maintaining it's power?
The question was simplistic... which is actually right, it's a simple topic. Many books overanalyze and overcomplicate it. You don't sell these books unless they look smart.
US and EU have had industrial and social decline, and that's the elephant in the room nobody wants to address. If you produce 10 and you keep consuming 20, you're gonna have trade deficit. Duh. Something similar happened with European aristocracy after the industrial revolution: they were not rich anymore, but they didn't accept their new discovered poverty. Many of them kept living first class until the lost everything because of debts.
Trump set some barriers to boost local production, which is not a bad strategy. It's how China managed to grow last decades, and how US did during the XIXth. But it has two limits: it works long term, and it doesn't make miracles: you need a productive and intelligent society, you're Zimbabwe or El Salvador, it's not gonna work. At the end of the day, with or without those barriers, US is gonna be poorer, probably much poorer, and that's a tough pill to swallow.
What happens when you can't accept that you're poor, that you're not first world anymore? You get into debt and you print money. That's what Obama did, that's what Trump did, that's what Biden is doing. As simple as that. Everybody is kicking the ball ahead and hoping the shit won't reach the fan during his mandate.
The problem with elephants in a room it's not that they're too complicated to be noticed. They're elephants, after all, how you could miss an elephant in a living room?. The problem is that nobody notices them because nobody wants to notice them.