Why is China so strong in 2020?

2020年了，为什么中国如此强大？

以下是Quora读者的评论：

Richard Kenneth Eng, former Project Team Leader at ATI Technologies (1993-2000)

How is China strong? Relative to whom?

Strength is always relative.

Strength can be defined in many different ways: military, economic, cultural, political, spiritual.

However, there are several undeniable facts. First, China is the world’s largest economy by PPP GDP.

Second, China is the world’s second largest economy by nominal GDP.

Third, China has the greatest manufacturing output in the world.

Fourth, China has the greatest quantity of exports in the world.

So I leave it to you to decide how strong China is.

中国有多么强大？看是相对于谁啊！

力量总是相对的。实力可以用许多不同的方式来定义，比如军事、经济、文化、政治和精神。

有几个不可否认的事实。

第一，按购买力平价的GDP计算，中国是世界上最大的经济体。

第二，按名义GDP计算，中国是世界第二大经济体。

第三，中国拥有世界上规模最大的制造业。

第四，中国是世界上出口最多的国家。

从以上来看，中国有多么强大，就看你怎么看了

Furkan Altau

China is strong due to its population and large economy. However, China is a fact that it is still much weaker than the USA. I do not believe that China will soon become a power like the US that has bases all over the world and can occupy everywhere. The production and logistics capacity is very strong but you need more to become a Superpower. First of all, he should put his teeth in the countries around him. Stronger in the Pacific with US aircraft carriers and allies now than China.

China has made progress in producing technology compared to the past, but it is still a fact that they have developed by stealing the technology of the USA in general

中国强大，凭借的是庞大的人口和经济。不过，中国实力仍然比美国弱得多，这是一个事实。

我不相信中国会很快成为美国那样的超级大国，美国在世界各地都有基地，想占领哪里就占领哪里。

中国的生产和物流能力很强，但要想成为超级大国，拥有这些还不够。

与过去相比，中国在技术生产方面取得了进步

Robin King, lives in China (2015-present)

You are assuming China is strong already. No, that’s not the truth!

The truth is, China is far from strong, but needs decades to build social, intelligent infrastructure

When US treats China as equal or a respectable country, China will be seen as Strong

其实，你假设中国已经很强大了。不，那不是真的

事实上，中国还远远不够强大，需要几十年时间来建设社会、智能基础设施。

当美国平等地对待中国或尊重中国时，中国就可以算是强大国家了

Alexander Draganov, Writer and Translator

China is strong, because it is old.  But it survives, while other Empires fade and disappear. The Chinese exsted alongside the pharaohs of Egypt. But the pharaos disappeared, China stays. Then Rome was the greatest until it wasn’t. China went on. Byzantine Empire, British Empire, they all rose and fell, China somehow survived.

中国是强大的。

历史上，世界其他帝国消失在历史长河中，而中华文明延续下来了。

埃及法老已经成为过去，而中华文明还在延续。

罗马帝国曾经是最伟大的，后来不是了。中华文明还在延续。

拜占庭帝国，大英帝国，起起落落，中国挺了过来

 译文来源：三泰虎 http://www.santaihu.com/p/50776.html

Long Yu, Chinese live and work in US

China is not particularly strong in 2020…it is about the same but a bit stronger than China in 2019…

China is still significantly weaker in conventional military than the US.

China is still significantly weaker in nuclear capability than the Russia.

China is still significantly weaker in high precision manufacturing than Germany and Japan.

China is still weaker in fundamental scientific research than US, Japan and many other countries.

China is indeed stronger than many countries…but neither China nor the world cares about them…

2020年，中国还不是特别强大，比2019年的中国强一些。

中国的常规军事力量仍然明显弱于美国。

中国的核能力仍然明显弱于俄罗斯。

与德国和日本相比，中国在高精密制造方面仍明显弱于这两个国家。

中国的基础科学研究仍然比美国、日本和许多其他国家弱。

中国的确比很多国家强大

Allan Kay, former & Current Ardent Geopolitical Observer

What are the specifics, economy or militarily?

It’s not that China is so strong. It’s the west that has weakened that has made China looks strong.

具体是经济方面还是军事方面？

并不是中国很强大了，其实是西方衰弱了，显得中国看起来很强大。