[anovikov]

Well, we are the places where rich and smart people will always move to live. Because over here, their human rights and property rights are guaranteed and they can innovate. That alone more or less guarantees perpetual leadership.

Also, we have an advantage in diversity.

If people can move freely between places, the most attractive places are automatically the strongest long term. You want to tell me that at some potential future point, more people will try to immigrate to China than to the U.S.? That's not going to ever happen, period. If people can't move freely between places, the place rots and destroys itself very quickly as everyone is concerned with one thing: how to run away from it.