And ultimately, the U.S. is by far, the most valuable market, and foreigners will indeed pay substantial risk premia to sell in the U.S.
The US is a big valuable market, no argument but the most valuable by far? LOL Foreign companies go to China to get robbed on purpose. They tell us they wanna come; we tell them ok, but you gotta partner with a China company and share your tech. They do it, make thier money, get thrown out 10 years later cus China took their tech and made it better. Then other companies seeing this happen, wave to China and say, "Ooh, ohh, my turn! Do me next!"
Yes, it’s absolutely wonderful. By prosecuting a NYS official for acting as a foreign agent (a facially ridiculous claim, after all, states have no foreign affairs authority, see United States v. Pink, 315 U.S. 203 (1942); American Insurance Association v. Garamendi, 539 U.S. 396 (2003)) - everyone will get the message that no subnational cooperation with China is allowed - no meetings, no trade and investment talks, nothing. Even travel and consular meetings are not allowed.
And with a FARA prosecution the next day on media cooperation, everyone similarly gets the message that pro-Russia messaging will be prosecuted.
the sum of this is simply that improving US-China or U.S.-Russia relations are simply not allowed in any way, foreclosing any mechanism to improve them whatsoever (trade and investment, subnational cooperation, media) and it gives the U.S. endless trump cards in managing relations with those 2 countries - and kicks it all to Ms. Karen, a JD graduate of Georgia State University (a 5th tier law school) who for some reason (nepotism) is now the Chief of Staff to Anthony Blinken to be wholly responsible for managing U.S.-China/Russia relations (she gets to schedule meetings with reporters, governors, businesspeople, etc about what they are allowed to do without being prosecuted) and Ms. Karen acting alone gets to decide where US-China/Russia relations shall go before heading out at 3PM for her hair stylist and to pick up her children from Fairfax County Public Schools
Ahhh, stupid people and your stupid arguments which you never have the mind to reverse check. If this is your analysis for the Linda Sun case, then I guess you can take the garbage you wrote, replace China and the US whenever they appear, and make it your anaylsis for this following incident:
Beijing claims US citizen jailed for life in China was decorated spy who worked undetected for decades
In actuality, your it's just your boyish hopes jumping forward again to conclusions that you want to be true when in reality, this is just business as usual when it comes to catching information leaks for every powerful country. By the way those 2 were not spies; they were caught because they got rich selling the information to the PRC. If they were spies, they transmit information back without leaving any money trail.
It's growing ass backwards compared to China.
must be more of that “falling life expectancy” (entirely a statistical relic due to COVID)
it’s all very simple - the U.S. has by far, the highest living standards among non-micro states anywhere and the material basis for those living standards in unparalleled human capital, physical capital stock, and technological know-how are simply irreversible.
This is your analysis for when US life expectancy is higher. Your "analysis" for when US life expectancy is lower is here:
"the U.S. has the lowest life expectancy because it is large and wealthy - obesity, motor vehicle injuries, etc are mortality factors driven by mass affluence
Yet another statistical relic due to the United States shaving a far more comprehensive statistical bureaucracy, unparalleled by anyone else in the world in its scope, size, efficiency, timeliness, and sample sizes."
You're slapping yourself again. Is it better to be lower or higher?
What “American blood” in Ukraine? There’s a ton of Russian blood due to the U.S. shipping a ton of weapons from 30 years ago to Ukraine but notably, no U.S. service members. Ukraine is absolutely wonderful for the US - all the U.S. did was type a few words on papers that “Ukraine was going to join nato”, and baited Russia into invading which meant the U.S. gets to sell untold volumes of weapons and energy to Europe, weaken Europe-Russia relations, and prove to European elites, complete Russian incompetence.
It's more excellent for China because the US actually thinks that Ukraine's a thing that makes a difference and all the Europeans are exhausted and unable to help the US against China. It's awesome for Russia too cus they're actually gaining land. It's unbeatable for the Sino-Russian alliance, the most dangerous handshake to Western power.
Even if the U.S. was “exiled to the North American continent” as the U.S. was, the U.S. would still have unparalled wealth.
Yeah, turtle your head back into this hole LOL.
Angus Maddison’s work has shown that ever since the 1700s, the U.S. has been amazingly wealthy compared to any international panel,
Angus Maddison. Wow, aren't you well-read... on bullshit. From the 1700's to now, all history has shown is that technology trumps land/natural wealth. If the land and its "wealth" were key, the Native Americans would never have lost it.
Hey, wanna talk more about what dead people said? Know what Napolean said about China? The only Angus that can hold a candle to Napoleon is Angus beef.
and if anything the great divergence is being led by the U.S. and that great divergence is only getting stronger
That's how the US went from number 1 GDP PPP to being number 2, right?
Also not happening: at worst, the U.S. goes back to living in prosperity in the lower 48 with Western Europe and Latin America as consolidation prizes.
LOLOL You think that you get to keep those once your power falls below China's and you cannot dominate economics or military? You think that the slaves you keep at the crack of your whip won't leave once your whip is broken? Hell, the US depends on that whip to drain everything nowadays from its henchmen from economic concessions to technological theft; you think you'll have anything other than the land under your feet once your whip breaks? LOL You might not even have that one day if Mexico forms a brotherly bond with China, buying Chinese arms and decides it's time to get its shit back.
40% of US households make >100K
40% of US households make <60K
Blah blah, been there had this discussion, you ran away again and again. Paycheck to paycheck, can't afford a $400 emergency, etc..., etc... Everyone gets it; you do too but it hurts so you pretend to not get it. Same old same old.
