The Future Doesn’t Belong to China (Greenfield)

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The Future Doesn’t Belong to China

Posted by Daniel Greenfield

Monday, February 10, 2020

In the 1980s, movies like Die Hard and Back to the Future 2 showed off a Japanese takeover of America. Japan had leveraged unfair trade policies, currency manipulation, and government subsidies to buy up American companies (it’s still happening, but few are paying attention) and was the wave of the future sweeping over America.

Everyone was driving Japanese cars, using Japanese electronics, and buying "Made in Japan." And Japan got there by stealing massive amounts of American intellectual property and reselling it to Americans.

By 1991, George Friedman’s book, The Coming War With Japan, was flying off the shelves.

Why doesn’t the future belong to Japan? There are economic answers. But there’s also a demographic answer. Japan entered the 1980s with an acceptably healthy 14 births per 1,000 people birth rate. The Japanese rate back then was only a little below America’s own 15 births per 1,000 people number.

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[Absalom]

Since the dawn of Man, cultures/societies w/successful governance over time,
fostered individualism, the spark of creativity permitting them to survive and thrive.
Sumer, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Rome are just a few example
In contrast, those addicted to authoritarianism, such as China, have never
achieved greatness, nor will they, as the authoritarian mindset prohibits creativity.