The other night when I finished watching Ray Dalio’s explanatory videos on “Dealing with Changing World Orders”, the next morning I saw Chamath Palihapitiya’s patriotic writings on his “Making American Great Again” post, during which he deleted and reposted- showing hesitance on his own writings:
The post hit me strongly as I just finished a few meetings the past few weeks with Indian fintech founders and none of them are open-minded enough to discuss advisory business with me but happy to take “China money” – I can’t figure out why and asked my Singaporean friend on how come the Indian founders are much more reluctant to talk compared to founders in Israel, Europe and US, and he told me —–“because you’re not Indian.”
I find it funny but when I saw Chamath’s posts – I don’t get it that he’s Canadian-American rather than Indian. Stereotypes will always exist if we on-purposely let ourselves fit into the stereotype circles.
I’d love to see US progressing although I’m not holding US passport- because US cultures deeply influenced me and many Asians growing up and indeed the great virtues of the America resonated with the world for many decades – 10/15 years ago when we talked about US- we thought of “open-minded, progressive & generous, powerful & human-right alertness”..(good words > bad comments) completely contrast of what we feel about US now.
Is China’s rise the reason of US’ downgrade?
Every time I came across these kind of lines- I feel offended and pathetic about those who brought this up- it’s like hearing the whining of a child complaining his own bad school grades by blaming other silently hardworking kids’ taking over his 1st place. Competitions were never the source of your own downgrading performance – the focus of setting other children up won’t make your grade higher – it only distracts your inner problems and weakening yourself by showing out how inner-feared you are.
US’s societal problems are not bursting only in 2025, it’s been accumulated and developed for decades just like what China faced during the 2000s- we also accumulated dozens of societal/cities problems: “unsafe, unclean, un-educated”. But with years of positive reforms – especially the work every individual living in the society performs by increasing the economic resilience & education quality – enduring rapid changes, developments and evolves, we turned the perceptions of China’s dark-side around.
For anyone who never travelled inside of China the past 5 years, please update your knowledge on China by showing yourself up here and feel it yourself.
And then tell us if China is really that horrible and evil that we actually rise in technology, economic and military only by stealing, cheating or any kind of illegal/unmoral ways.
It’s just ridiculous to see a post written by a so-called knowledgable man in the US to defame China like this. Another hints I got from this post is that—– in the age of AI, how important it is to have your own acumen rather than listening to any biased human/machine views blindly.
Coming back to the questions on how must China win the 3 races, the reasons are not only historical like what Ray observed in social sciences:
We, as a Nation thrived for thousands of years in human history- had enough lost and miserable paths in finding our ways of prosperity and peace the past 200 years-
And here in the best and special timing that AI and human inter-connected, we will find ourselves gradually back to the thrones by taking every little work diligently and presently pursuing excellence in our work & life with no intention of getting 1st place results.
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