| I think your American centric view gave you some blind spots For once >As impressive as China's domestic capabilities look, they have an aging population with a huge gender imbalance that will bite them in a few short decades. Europe is in the same situation, it doesn't mean Europe will disappear Japan is in a worse situation, but it's still the third economy in the World for GDP > If the world decouples manufacturing and supply chains from China over this same time period, China is going to have significant problems. You forgot (or you don't know) that China is practically colonizing Africa, which is gonna be the next big thing and has a lot of younger work force available, not considering that with 1.3 billion population is gonna be one of the largest markets in the World USA has only 320 million citizen and only 80% of them are American born. You also forgot that China is the United States' 3rd largest goods export market It's also the third largest market for Apple devices. China is also the largest supplier for USA, which means that on one side China get a lot of benefits trading on the US market, but also that USA without China goods is not gonna work the same way. |