Best ETFs?

Your assessment of Apple is correct in the nearer term 10 year period but its important to note that Apple did get hurt in the dotCom Bubble of the late 90s and relinquished over 80% of its stockprice from peak to trough in a 1 year period of time. It did not retrace its gains for another 5 years thereafter

I would argue that  Nvidia and AI in general would be better compared to Apple of the late 1990s (25+years ago) as opposed to  comparisons of  Apple of the last 10-15 years.  The P/E ratios and current uncharted territory of current AI usecases very clearly support that assessment.  Speaking of Apple and AI, the latest Iphone sales numbers also support my thesis that AI is overhyped... as Iphone sales have stagnated despite its biggest selling point being that the hardware capabilities are now "AI Ready", with specifically more memory, processing power, and battery capacity capable of handling the AI Apple plans to boot into them come the new year.

As far as China, China has very much outperformed the rest of the world in the past 10-20 years in terms of GDP (due mostly to manufacturing). Obviously that has not translated into market gains for investors, but that is due to the state absorbing all those market gains to fund future development and infrastructure within the country like modernizing their manufacturing capabilities, creating high speed rails, and moving to energy independence via hydro-electric power and artificial sun tech.   As much as I dislike China as a communist entity, you cannot in good faith argue that there haven't been greater advancements there in the past 20 years than the rest of the world. Their leapfrogging of  the west in terms of technological abilities and their modern cities put most of the western world's advancements to shame and makes places like NYC and its state run transportation system look like a thirdworld country.  It's  outside investors error  to think communist leaning fascist/statist nations like  China wont take any and all  capital gains from investors for their own pet projects. That is a core tenant of communism/fascism/ statism.  Just look at  Soviet Russia, whose achievements in the field of civilian education in STEM, cosmonaut space exploration advancements, and their nuke proofed subway systems made  American education, NASA and  NYC subways look like thirdworld countries. You simply cannot make the comparison that China has not excelled in the past 30 years, its just that their capital gains from GDP  do not stay in the market, they are taken by the state to fund undertakings of massive projects for the populations benefit.  With that said, even if the West continued its multi-decade pace of outsourcing production to China.. you are right... it is a fools errand to invest in that country, especially if they continue to try to assert dominance over the rest of the West's allies in the  South China Sea, which will inevitably lead to IMF restrictions and coordinated military intervention measures from US, Japan, Korea and  Australia. As for Nippon, quite the contrary, they have done  suprisingly well despite their currency controls by the Bank of Japan. In fact their economic indexes and the Nikkei  have outperformed most of the West and the rest of the world with the only exception being the US tech-based powerhouse.

Lastly, as for the women war hawk critique. Here is a link to better inform and give context.

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/9ipjxp/throughout_history_que…

http://www.nber.org/papers/w23337

Current examples are Clinton on Syria, Harris/Nuland//Haley on Eastern Europe and the M.E. Before them, Thatcher of English notoriety was most well-known as "the Iron Lady" for a reason.  The only voice of reason for peace negotiations in current times has been Gabbard, who most suprisingly actually has a background as a military combat vet  and  as such probably doesn't need to prove much to her opponents in such regard.