To be honest this has the vibe of “Omg what happened to by profits 😭” I’m all due honesty. And assumes that china won’t like, idk, Nationalize failing companies, and that it’ll do what the west did and wait like a few decades for it’s industry to decay and won’t do fuck all lol.

??? This is a private estimate for one. And literally they missed out on industrial profits by like 0.5 percent, profits, yea clearly the denominator for industrial prowess.

And then you provide them with the sources and they’ll say “oh, that’s just Judeo Bolshevik Propaganda, now here’s a source debunking it.” - proceeds to post Nazi/Neo-Nazi propaganda.