is a lifetime in America
The stats have been audited, and here’s China’s 2021 track record:
Eliminated extreme poverty.
Achieved 98% home ownership.
Mastered Covid, with a death rate 0.6% of America’s.
Sold $140 billion retail online in 24 hours. Amazon’s record is $5 billion.
Made 55% of global energy savings.
Generated enough renewable energy, 1 TW, to power every home in China.
Produced a new billionaire and 300 millionaires every work day.
Completed new train lines in seven countries, including Laos’ first.
Ran 12,000 cargo trains to and from Europe, up 30% yoy.
Joined RCEP, the world’s biggest trade pact.
Launched the world’s first central bank digital currency.
Grew GDP by $1+ trillion PPP, 4x America’s.
Dominated scientific research and issued the most patents of any country.
Built three exascale computers + one for AI.
Brought two gas-cooled Pebble Bed nuclear power plants online.
Brought a cheap, safe thorium reactor online (no expensive, toxic uranium).
Certified a Covid treatment that reduces hospitalizations and deaths 78%.
Became the world’s largest movie market.
Built a programmable quantum computer 10,000x faster than Google’s.
Operated the first integrated, 3,000-mile, commercial quantum secure network.
Installed one-million 5G base stations. Tibet has better 5G service than New York.
Communicated between satellites via lasers carrying 1,000x information of radio waves.
Successfully fired the world’s most powerful solid-fuel rocket engine.
Flew three hypersonic missiles around the planet.
Released a fractional orbital bombardment missile while traveling 17,000 mph.
Commissioned three warships simultaneously to become the biggest navy by far.
Became the richest country on earth.
I will publish the 2022 list next week, and a 2023 half-year report next month.
Did reading the list make you pause and think? If it did, perhaps you would forward it to thoughtful friends.
