The Answer to China

The answer to China’s rapid growth, military posturing, and neo-colonialist foreign policy is not America.

The answer to China is India.

America is now in the death throes of demographic confusion and chaos, and the only thing saving my home country is its geography — two coasts, one on each of the world’s largest oceans, non-enemies on both land borders.

Lucky.

Americans are ill-equipped for a rapidly globalizing world, a world that is shrinking faster than ‘Make America Great Again’ hats can be printed.

As I stated in my prior article, Americans are one of, if not the most mono-linguistic cultures in the world, while also, somehow, being the world’s largest superpower and source of the globe’s standard reserve currency.

Being mono-linguistic is a certain form of short-sightedness, if not close-mindedness.

It limits the brain to think in only one particular way.

I would argue that for America to avoid becoming irrelevant it should make education free for all, with an emphasis not only on STEM subjects but also foreign languages and social skills.

We have surfed the dot-com wave for a long time, now the tides are turning, and now people skills are going to be in high demand, because a lot of coders in Silicon Valley have problems when it comes time to ‘work a room’.

Don’t get me wrong, I like HR no more than anyone, but they are the witch doctors in a corporate era.

I digress, and I’m okay with that.

Anyway, as a writer, I see fellow wordsmiths from India advertising their trade craft online something like this: ‘Fluent in English, Hindi, Marathi, and Mandarin, available for web copy work’.

The kicker?

These people are willing to do quality work at a fraction of the price I am.

There is one ancient Asian civilization that has been learning English faster and better than the Chinese, who themselves have been learning English very quickly and efficiently.

That place is India.

Not only that, but Indian rivalry with China stems from long before Europeans started wiping out Native Americans.

China also controls India’s water supply, which is not to say I relish in how modern nation-states vie for control over the world’s largest island — it’s just to say that America should count its blessings.

If America was, say, Poland, then we would be under serious threat from an outside entity because of the rampant internecine conflict within our borders.

Thanks be to the walls of the sea.

We have an ally in India, and that country should be supported and encouraged to achieve its potential, in any way Washington DC can.

Even if Taiwan falls.