The same thing can be said for the US and the US has a much higher debt to GDP ratio. China has a manufacturing base and huge deposits of rare earth. Again, not the point here. The point is how they spend their money. The US extracts from their citizens. China invests.

I completely agree but I think that's splitting hairs to some degree. China is kicking our ass in almost every category. Their citizens are taken better care of. They have more opportunity. Communism won this race. I think Democratic Socialism is the next step because it combines the best of both.

Not of it's done without corruption but that's not the point here. The point is that the US sold it's citizens on a lie that capitalism is the only solution because it PREVENTS those things from happening when in reality it's the ideology that spreads those social problems faster than any other.