seriously, the uighur stuff started because there was some 00s muslim terrorism, then all of a sudden in 09 they had a race riot with a death count of 200.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_riotsIn a week they managed to take out what makes US riots look like baby numbers.
The big issue with china is they're absurdly heavy-handed with civil disobedience (probably because they deal with violence on a much greater scale than we do).
We also do have a lot of manufacturing, but a decent portion of it is just in Mexico, but we can rely on that unless nafta just disappears.
calling america's economy laughgable is just really ignorant though, regardless of it being in the hands of a small few being bad for quality of life, that's still plenty scary in times of war. And all of our arms manufacturing is stateside, that'd be like saying china has no metal because they take it all from mongolia and africa.
and so is calling mandarin+simplified chinese complex, mandarin is the easiest language I've ever learned since the grammar is incredibly convenient/nonexistent, people will understand what you're saying as long as you indicate what's the subject and what's the predicate and have some kind of action in a sentence. I highly recommend just using 吧 for everything. I'd argue learning radicals and proper meaning of hanzi just as complicated as learning all your latin/german/greek roots. and if you're not learning traditional you're illiterate mainlander scum.