Last time I checked, it was poor Chinese who were flying across the Pacific and crossing the jungle on foot in the Darien Gap to migrate to Amerika and not poor Amerikans flying to Tibet to crosss the Himalayas on fooot to migrate into China.  It's also rich Chinese buying McMansions to live  as expats in Seattle, not rich Americans buying condos to live as expats in Beijing.  So I'm not sure the Chinese themsellves are quite as impressed by life in China as you seem to be.

I will grant you though that the family structure in China hasn't collapsed as thoroughly as is the case here in the land of good and plenty, and their socialized medical system and care for the elderly is probably better, since it would be hard to do worse on this than here, besides Nigeria and Sudan anyhow.

It's tough to say which side of the pond the toast is smoking more, since the spin down is being handled by such disparate systems.  Solely on the economic level, both countries are so interdependent that it doesn't matter much who toasts first, the other will shortly follow.

RE