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New York, and the United States writ large, cannot survive indefinitely on the infrastructure built nearly a century ago.

The hope from Beijing might be that Americans will be driven mad by the dangerous storms produced by the double whammy of social media plus artificial intelligence. Perhaps these things will magnify the internal divisions of Americans. As more Americans retreat into a digital phantasm, Xi will be shepherding Chinese through the physical world to make babies, make steel, and make semiconductors.

According to Deloitte, China has become the single largest financier of infrastructure in Africa, building one in four projects on the continent.

Sometimes, the only thing scarier than China’s problems are Beijing’s solutions.