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Solomonsatoshi is obsessed with arguing that China is supplanting the US. Getting into arguments with him about that topic isn't likely to lead anywhere productive
Try to dismiss the messenger but fail to dismiss the message why don't you!?
Yes I do raise this topic sometimes but it is also true that nobody of the Libertarian ideology has yet responded with any credible refutation of the main points I raise. Perhaps because they cannot they respond with a credible reasoned argument they respond instead with personal attacks...in order to avoid these issues they cannot refute. In doing that they concede defeat, by default in terms of a fair and reasoned contest of ideas.
I have been called names (statist, Chinese operative, lunatic etc etc) for my efforts but that just shows nobody of the Libertarian ilk can respond in a credible reasoned fact based manner and so resort to crude name calling shoot the messenger trolling. I believe this is an important and significant issue today and going forward especially relevant to Bitcoin and to Libertarian ideology. The fact that it presents real and demonstrable challenges to Libertarian ideology is not my problem but it is revealing that the Libertarians who often claim nobody is prepared to engage with them in reasoned debate are not themselves capable of calm and reasoned contest of ideas when offered the opportunity.
The OPs obsession with digital tokens/tokenisation/financial derivatives I would present as further evidence of the corrupt narratives within the west where financialisation of everything has come to dominate and the actual making and production of useful tools, materials, infrastructure and products in the real world is increasingly deficient. The highly financialised western hegemony is inherently vulnerable to the 'practical mechanics' of Chinas mercantile based strategy, but US Exceptionalists are seemingly blind to this vulnerability. The OP demonstrates this blindness by assuming that the Chinese would invitably fall into the same trap (of chronic fiscal and trade deficits) as the US has regarding being the dominant issuer of currency when that is clearly not inevitable. The Chinese will be free to construct a monetary and trade payments protocol/s and institutions to avoid such a trap, and very likely will. They might ultimately fall into new traps but that is for the future and history to tell and is unlikely to be foreseen easily via existing paradigms.
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