Robert Pape

And the reason is because during COVID, what happened is we put all our money, $10 trillion plus in debt.

And that was for good reason to help our people.

But what China did, and China can do this as an authoritarian state, they invested a

They didn't give, they invested.

And what I saw in China are not just seas of cars, but I visited these advanced cities now that have been uplifted in the last five years.

major construction that's occurring.

Here's a good example.

This is China's Pittsburgh, so to speak.

And in 2015, when I was last there, it looks like Pittsburgh.

Now, this is like a version of, Wuhan calls it their

Optics Valley after Silicon Valley, these are advanced AI-driven laser robotics that are just uplifting the entire city of 10 million people.

Because it's not just about building a company.

They're integrating all this citywide.

So there's massive construction going on.

This is another good example.

I was in Hangzhou in 1979.

I was part of the trip I was on, and it was a fishing village.

Today, look at this.

This is a completely different Hangzhou.

There's still some fishing there, by the way, but what you see is this has been uplifted as a city.