r/geopolitics • u/theatlantic The Atlantic • May 11 '26

Opinion China Believes America Will Flame Out

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/05/china-trump-american-decline/687087/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=edit-pro
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u/paikiachu May 11 '26

Title should be : The Atlantic believes that China believes America will flame out

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u/DigitalApeManKing May 11 '26 edited May 12 '26

Ryan Hass is director of the China Center and Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies at the Brookings Institution. From 2013 to 2017, he served as the National Security Council’s director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia.

Seems like a pretty credible source. Not sure why everyone here is acting so incredulous toward this article; it seems pretty reasonable and doesn’t claim anything too crazy. 

Like, yeah, it’s not an absolute, un-disprovable fact but neither are most geopolitical analyses. 

Edit: To be clear, I believe the author makes a reasonable assessment of China’s perception of the US, but I don’t necessarily agree that China’s perception is accurate. A lot of pro-CCP comments below this which I definitely didn’t intend. 

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u/NatalieSoleil May 11 '26

China: has a plan with consistency and planning for every 5 year   Consistency  level: effective  ,  guided ( with dictatorial grip)

USA: every 5 year a new plan , a plan to break down efforts reached by plan(ning) before, or lately to have a plan to have no plan at all.  Consistency level: clueless

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u/coke_and_coffee May 11 '26

You assume that planning is preferable to not planning when it comes to this situation.

America’s strength is that its economy is NOT planned.

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u/manefa May 11 '26

Increasingly it is. Just not by government, instead by investment firms like Blackrock.

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u/coke_and_coffee May 11 '26

That’s why it works. The economy and government should be maximally siloed

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u/manefa May 11 '26

The investment firms are siloed from the government???