Why do Americans think they can win this? They're decadent and weak, as well as politically divided. The Chinese population is used to suffering
Are they though?
Are they really?
It's not the Mao years anymore, all the Cultural revolutionary boomers are dead or irrelevant, meanwhile Chinese zoomers pioneered "lying flat" and all Chinese women are spoiled princesses who literally will not marry China men unless they own a house.
People act like China is North Korea and Chinese people are used to starving. China isn't North Korea.
Chinese people have come to expect a certain standard of living, and the legitimacy of the Chinese government rests entirely upon that standard of living.
I'm not saying China will fold.
I am staying things are not as cut and dried as wumao want you to believe.
China is so advanced! China is living in the future! Standard of living so high! America third world compared to China!
Chinese people are used to suffering! Americans are soft and decadent! American standard of living is too high!
It can't be both.
Either we're the broke and hungry country or they are, or neither of us are and it's anybody's game.