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If the current global geopolitical situation were made into a novel, a metric-shit ton of people would think that the evil empire whining about being outcompeted by it's rival and dogged underdog protagonist at over 200 times it's shipbuilding capacity and being nearly completely unable to catch up would be a woefully unrealistic, stupid, plot armor deus ex machina type of thing.

I'm so fucking glad it's real.

Radhika Desai brought up a great point regarding this on the latest Geopolitical Economy podcast: civilian shipbuilding and military shipbuilding are complementary industries. China has both, the US only has one (military). Having both allows greater innovation and technological development as people and resources can move between both. What you may learn in civilian shipbuilding will have applications in military shipbuilding (or in more Marxist terms, practice helps build knowledge and understanding). If you only having military shipbuilding capabilities, in time you may very well lag behind other nations that have both (certain when you’re talking about the scale that China is at).

China really said

Also the dynamics are changing, it's no longer possible to keep carriers safe with stuff like hypersonic weapons in play.

"Socialism will never work" mfs when capitalism gets dogwalked by socialism

If their economic system is superior perhaps we should adopt it

I just love how the US argues that capitalism should be adopted because it's efficient, but also throws a tantrum when an alternative system outcompetes capitalism.

Lol, reminds me of that line from the movie Liar Liar:

"Your honor, I object!"

"And why is that?"

"Because it's devastating to my case!"

It's really something to have the US talk about what's "fair" after it has terrorized (and in some ways still is terrorizing) as much of the world as it possibly can since the end of WWII.