"...the end of American economic dominance..."

Good luck with that idea, what I read seems to point to spiritual Babylon which is Rome, not China or US as being the seat of the antichrist's power.
Rev 17
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.
....
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
...
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

Commentary
17:1–19:10 Babylon the prostitute appears, representing the seductions of the world (17:4; 18:3; see Introduction: Characteristics and Themes: Other Features). “Babylon” is probably a symbol for the city of Rome (17:9 note, 17:18) with its immorality.

 

I think that China manufactured this virus and released it as a weapon. I hope that we stop buying anything and everything that is made in China. We can do it if we reduce the size of our government and put our bureaucrats to work in our factories and warehouses. We need to strictly control our borders and put an end to this globalism. The wealthy elites who want globalism will move to Canada or Europe or Dubai. Communism is not a system but a disease of the mind, Uncle Bernie--you mean old man with 3 dachas.

 

Oh, we have too many able-bodied people on welfare here in Indianapolis. We have Lilly Pharmaceuticals here in Indianapolis and they must know how to do a lot of things that need to be done as they are a very old company and worked out how to mass produce insulin a hundred years ago. We still have steel mills here in Gary, Indiana. I think that we can tell them good-bye. We used to buy lumber from Mexico when I was a kid. The upper classes know that they have impoverished the American man who works in factories with his hands but they don't want to do anything about it except complain about how much the CEO makes.

 

It is entirely possible they were studying the virus and it got loose by accident. Seeing the effect it had on them, seems odd they would want to do it that way versus letting it loose directly into any large American or European city dont you think?
Then seeing the worldwide ease of spread, it seems like a mutually assured kind of destruction, they dont seem to run the country that way to me.

 

Do you think communists care about people?

 

That depends on what years, country and who they were and are.
Obviously Communists of the 20th century did not care much about their people. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot for example. All they cared about was themselves, their vision for the society. Communists do not care to tolerate opposition do they.
Even though we think of mainland China as a communist country, they are nowhere like N Korea are they, so there are many positive differences between China today and N Korea.

 

Man the Doom and Gloomers are hard at work. Pathetic

 

Okay, I am so old that I remember when China invaded Tibet and busted up the country and demanded that everybody speak Chinese. The Dalai Lama has a brother in Bloomington, Indiana, so he is in Indiana now and then but he can't go home anymore and it has been since 1959 (I had to look it up). My personal opinion is that China controls North Korea but I really don't know. I don't like how China has broken their word to Hong Kong and tried to take away their freedoms. People in Hong Kong want the Brits back as their rulers.

I was listening to a lecture by Princeton Professor Stephen Kotkin, the world's leading expert on Stalin. He was speaking in Vienna recently on geopolitics and the difference between nazis and communism. He came from a working-class family but went to Berkeley in California and became a Russian expert. He says that he is not partisan and not a member of any political party. However, the information on Russia is much better than the information on China. I am not sure that anyone knows how many Mao murdered. The Professor was telling the Austrians that communism was extinct but the nazis were still around. I think that he has a good case for Russia now just being sort of a military dictatorship with a lot of capitalist practices but poor. He did not mention the communism of Cuba so I don't think communism is extinct but it is stupid because eventually the top has trouble getting the luxury goods they want.

So I don't know what China is but I do not think that they are benign or friendly. They have stolen so much technology from us. Here in the Midwest we are still the rustbelt and we want our jobs and factories back. That is the best answer that I can give you since I don't know much about China.