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I don’t know how the US could possibly have more resources than China.

It’s still the largest of the two economies.

...by GDP, which is absolutely not a representation of economic resources, especially with how USA calculates GDP.

China has something like >1000% as many people working in technical industry jobs as USA, and a massive trade surplus. The two economies are not even comparable. One prints the global reserve currency and smears it around in FIRE, the other makes things.

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