One thing to say, the United States is certainly still the strongest country in the world, and although it has been slowly declining for the past 20 years, it has not declined as quickly as imagined.
In 2000, the United States accounted for 30.4% of the world's GDP, and in 2022, the United States accounted for 23.94% of the world's GDP, not to mention the fiscal deficit, there was a surplus in 2000, and the fiscal deficit in 2023 was 1.7 trillion US dollars.
After the United States overthrew the Soviet Union, it lived a good life for a few years, was full of confidence in the world hegemony it had established, and then used the dollar to play financial business around the world, which is faster than making money in the real industry, and you can harvest a country at your fingertips, even if it can't harvest the US military.
Under the guidance of this concept, a large number of elites in the United States have crowded into political and financial circles, and industries have moved abroad, and it is at this time that China has taken over a large number of manufacturing industries, in fact, China has a similar script as India, but China can always be prepared first.
The financial crisis of 2008 dealt a big blow to the United States, in fact, it also gave a big impact to China, and since then, China has taken the matter of monetary sovereignty very seriously, in fact, it has been preparing for the opening of finance.
Although the United States has made a lot of money with China's development, it cannot directly harvest China with finance, and after China's rapid rise, even the efficiency of the United States to harvest other countries has also been affected, and some people say that the United States has never come out of the economic crisis in 2008.
When the economy is getting slower and slower, the debt is getting more and more, and the relationship with several big countries is getting worse and worse, it is almost done, and now the United States has to repay $1.4 trillion in interest every year, and even Musk said that the United States can no longer afford to repay $34 trillion in debt.
The elites of the United States have gone to finance, originally a lot of scientific and technological research is done by Chinese, but the United States has been a little crazy over the years, but it is to make trouble for these doctors, especially the government-led project research and development, involving secrets and all kinds of difficulties, but there are more and more Indians.
The hollowing out of the manufacturing industry has also hit the United States quite hard, not only causing a talent fault, but also further stagnation of scientific and technological development, although there has been no major theoretical breakthrough in basic science for a long time, but it can continue to innovate in the industry, and the continuous progress of science and technology will further make the cake bigger.
On the surface, the United States has not developed because science and technology have stagnated, but the deep level is that the wealth distribution mechanism of the United States has a problem, and when the development is very fast, the distribution mechanism is easy to be ignored, but the hollowing out of the manufacturing industry and the stagnation of science and technology are troublesome, highlighting the problem of the wealth distribution mechanism.
The United States has also realized the problem of the hollowing out of the manufacturing industry, but it is a little late, just like a lot of Internet technology and even artificial intelligence, maybe China is not as good as the United States, but there are many innovations in industrial applications, because these innovations require the linkage of many industries.
Last year, the Korean team made a LK-99 room-temperature superconducting material Why did it cause a sensation, such a major breakthrough is too few, although it was not fully confirmed in the end, but the idea of this alchemy is very good, and many teams in China are continuing to follow up.
After lacking the blessing of industry and technology, the United States has developed into a financial empire as desired, and normal finance is beneficial to the economy, but when financial capital can be harvested wantonly, it is already drinking water to quench its thirst.
Can China learn something from the experience of the decline of the United States? However, Hegel said: The only lesson that people can learn from history is that mankind cannot learn any lessons from history!