>>81879308 (OP)>what gives?Well, it helped Red China a lot that the Western elites sold everyone out by letting them into the WTO in 2001, so they could undercut the planet with over a billion wage-slaves. Hence why the Western economy has been perma-shit since the 2000s.
As for Red China, they have the Orwellian doublethink of having to pay tribute to their state's founder, the worst mass-murderer ever, Mao, while having the sense to turn capitalist under (somewhat based) Deng. Now they are essentially one-party capitalists. Sadly, they have broken capitalism by the West outsourcing all worthwhile work and industry to them, which is why our jobs and wages are utter shit, and autists cannot even function in these leftover service jobs. Also all the deliberate understaffing and over-working of people that has become a staple of wage-cuck hell.
Yes, with Red China taking everything away from Western workers, it's long fucking overdue that we get a UBI and Keynes' 15 hour work week already. We cannot compete with slaves without becoming slaves ourselves. So let the Red Chinese have all the work. Frankly, it was a terrible mistake to have rapprochement with them in 1972, and again to not have them embargoed since 1989 until the CCP fell.
To think of burgerland selling out to the Soviets during the Cold War is unthinkable. Yet they sold out the West to Beijing. Despicable.