Please, someone explain to me why liberals are mad at China's trade policies. What do they base their unhinged conspiracy theories about China trying to "destroy world trade" on? What do you even say to these liberals who thinks China is going to "dominate" the world and do unspecified bad things?

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Exactly, while the US was trying to deindustrialize and outsource production while we rigged the global financial capital game in our favor we undermined all of our real productive capacity. The US literally can only exist in its current form by holding the global south hostage.

    • Civility [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Strong agree with the rest and I wouldn't use the word "encroaching", but China has been extremely aggressive in the South China Sea. Over the past 10 years the PRC has on several occasions, violated treaties they ratified within the past few years and using military force and the threat of military force to take oil platforms and fishing grounds from Vietnam and the Philippines that were in Vietnamese and Filipino exclusive economic zones.

      Like, clearly the US shouldn't have anything to do with it but the PRC has been kind of shitty to its maritime neighbors.