That's a lot of words to say they're gonna do fascism and colonialism. I wonder how long until labor camps become the norm in the west, for the sake of "competitivity against China" (i.e. shareholder profits)

less welfare and less regulation

WOW who would have guessed

hey citizens of europe, if you're feeling cold and hungry, if your lungs hurt from breathing poison, yes it's not ideal but it's either this or china wins (pay no attention to all the billionaires)

the west is turning into a hermit kingdom because it can't compete with China on the global stage

mr. stapleton predicts these things:

40. l. c., pp. 70, 71. Note in the 3rd German edition: today, thanks to the competition on the world-market, established since then, we have advanced much further. “If China,” says Mr. Stapleton, M.P., to his constituents, “should become a great manufacturing country, I do not see how the manufacturing population of Europe could sustain the contest without descending to the level of their competitors.” (Times, Sept. 3, 1873, p. 8.) The wished-for goal of English capital is no longer Continental wages but Chinese.