Incidentally, a very fun read on the dynamics behind the whole thing https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/08/the-value-of-nothing-capital-versus-growth/

Billionaires engineered all of this. The whole stock price over innovation mindset was to extract American wealth and cripple American power. They want no power to exist that can reign in their own power. The battle for equity never ends. The billionaires and their ghouls never stop. Never trust the government to stay honest, we have to keep them honest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Money_(book)

After decades of dismantling education and raising xenophobia? Doable but it wont be easy and the results will take years. The US doesn't have the ability for long term commitments given how widely policy can swing from one administration to another.

They really only pissed off because China is playing a different game (the game we originally stomped them at) and kicking our asses in the process.

1. China is not playing the game the US originally did and still is: settler-colonialism^1^, slavery^2^, and imperialism^3^.
2. The US didn’t “stomp” China, the UK did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation

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^1^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_against_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States#Current_issues
^2^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
^3^ https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Neocolonialism

Agreed.