Seeing as there's not really any discussion taking place for me to worry about derailing... I did try, but the content and questions you posted seem indelibly coloured by the "America vs. China" framing.
While the post might be full of meaningful implications to an impassioned American, you're actually saying very little in the way of cold-hard facts, further explanation of the article linked, or even what *specifically* America should be doing differently. The only message I can take away is "China's doing good in some ways, ...
As a non-American westerner, just like to point out that "America vs. China" isn't necessarily a battle the entire world is invested in.
So I don't understand language in this post like "China’s success scares me" or "as bad as it seems" - why are Americans 'the goodies' and Chinese 'the baddies'? Both governments are insanely powerful and engaged in immoral practices on the daily.
Tribalism, I thought, was out of vogue. All that should matter is the future of humanity, right?
Cool list! Some of these are new to me, will have to explore further.
Here's some more:
Wolfram|Alpha - https://www.wolframalpha.com/
Internet Archive - https://archive.org/
WWW Virtual Library - http://vlib.org/
Scholarpedia - http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Main_Page
Library Genesis - https://libgen.unblocked.ltda/
And some databases...
WordNet (English) - https://wordnet.princeton.edu/
BabelNet (Multilingual) - https://babelnet.org/
Dimensioned drawings/standard measurements - https://www.dimensions.guide/
Aaand some maths stuff...
MathPages ...
"Seems to me that you and the author share a common belief, that successful Chinese policies or frameworks should bring about reflection and positive changes for American government (or any government, it just so happens that this post was framed by an American). "
Yeah that was literally the point of my last paragraph. Was trying to demonstrate that I don't disagree with the obvious (and basic) sentiment underpinning the original post, I only disagree with the way it was presented - cagey, but ultimately nationalistic rhetoric about 'fe... (read more)