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  • How China Became a Superpower and What Comes Next for Its Economy

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    China’s entry into the WTO in 2001 accelerated its rise as a global manufacturing and technology powerhouse, fueled export growth, and helped stabilize global demand during the financial crisis. As China expanded Belt and Road investments, advanced in EVs and AI, and entered a sharper economic rivalry with the United States, its property slowdown and domestic inequality exposed new vulnerabilities. Enda Curran, Elizabeth Economy, and Afsaneh Beschloss explain China’s past 25 years and what its next phase means for the global economy.
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NotAtrader
Dec 22, 2025 1:40am
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Quoting Schultz
{quote} Should this be correct, the question remains about how come quite a lot of Chinese technology is in fact demonstrably superior to that of the West? I speak primarily about the electronic domain. There are other areas of engineering superiority. And now they make things so good that they have a trillion-dollar trade surplus. It is unnatural that the USA Trump doesn't wish to take full advantage of this quite astonishing phenomenon.
I would not reject your point. You have a good question there and the answer is simple: The Chinese people are not stupid. They just came late to the party, but that's not to say they would never catch up with the leaders. And even more - that's not to say that at some point they cannot be better that the leaders. USA, Europe and the WEST generally have a serious problem. I will just cite part of a post made by Vancarbon. This post is deleted for some reason, but he said something like this: "China is making progress in every aspect of its industrial and technological development while in Europe we waste time debating what shape of the banana is best for us and in USA republicans and democrats are busy covering corruption and quarreling endlessly about who is wrong and right in terms of things already proven wrong or right in other countries. So there you go.
One thing is for sure - the west is about to miss the train.
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Schultz
Dec 22, 2025 12:42am
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Quoting NotAtrader
China took long term advantage of the west's generosity and kindness when it comes to copyright and licenses. This gave China a rocket kick start in all aspects and particularly within the car industry and electronic. The west should try to stop China's illegal plagiarism much much earlier. Now it is too late to do something about that.
Should this be correct, the question remains about how come quite a lot of Chinese technology is in fact demonstrably superior to that of the West?

I speak primarily about the electronic domain. There are other areas of engineering superiority.

And now they make things so good that they have a trillion-dollar trade surplus. It is unnatural that the USA Trump doesn't wish to take full advantage of this quite astonishing phenomenon.
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NotAtrader
Dec 21, 2025 7:13am
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China took long term advantage of the west's generosity and kindness when it comes to copyright and licenses. This gave China a rocket kick start in all aspects and particularly within the car industry and electronic. The west should try to stop China's illegal plagiarism much much earlier. Now it is too late to do something about that.
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240z
Dec 21, 2025 7:52am
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Trees do not grow to the sky. China has yet to enter a deep recession, which is part of the financial cycle.
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Trader#1168
Dec 21, 2025 8:09am
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fuck China man
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Trader#BF33
Dec 21, 2025 1:11pm
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How to keep production costs down ? Child labor and slave labor. Keep buying china's crap.!
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