The USA would, however, also see that the USA is thoroughly anti-communist and corrupt as hell, so the USA would just the buy out the politcal leadership of the USA to turn the USA a disposable puppet state
Pacience. History always repeats itself, if you don't learn from it, and imperialism always has its days numbered.
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True but without the US, western Europe would belong to Russia or China... That arguably a lot worse.
It's the lesser of all evils.
Why would China "own" Western Europe. This sounds like a very vibes based analysis
This will probably devolve into the usual tropes. It's dangerous to go alone! Take this.
- https://lemmy.ml/comment/9325173
- https://lemmy.ml/comment/8392727
Do you want current regime or it's history? Because... Lol if you think that number is 0 for either.
Please, do tell. Current government. If you say Tibet I will die of laughter and then link you a very well-sourced and easy to read academic paper.
Happy to, it's a banger if you're not familiar
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I would like to hear your true facts about the current regime
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They would if they could. Imagine China having a powerful air force like the US have. They would dominate every country in the world just like the US is doing. The US puts almost all their money into high tech weaponry as well.
The US is going after the middle east to get oil and to establish military bases for future domination. Has nothing to do with liberation or democracy.
"imagine if China invaded the whole world. China doesn't sound so good now, does it?"
Brilliant
Do you have any actual arguments? So far you are not really contributing to the discussion at all.
Argument: your US chauvinism is unjustified and you should probably justify it. Otherwise, you're wasting everyone's time with an undeserved smug attitude
Sure I work all my life to pay rent and the cops can murder me at any time for no reason and get away with it, but have you considered China worse somehow?
Based on what? Your hypothetical yellow peril bullshit where they would be worse if they could
I would just be a tourist. I would of course like the people. People all over the world are quite nice. It's the governments that are not...
China has a democratic government with far more oversight and participation from their citizens than the US
I'm a racist because I don't want China to control the western world the way the US is controlling it? :)
Thinking the US controlling things is good actually is fuckin cringe lol
What's cringe is your comments here... You just contribute nothing to the discussion.
Why isn't it good that the US is controlling things? And why do you think it's better if China would?
That's how you have a real discussion.
I don't owe you a discussion
I'm not some debate pervert
Make your discussion worth my time
Skin color is completely irrelevant. Now I think you are just wasting my time and trolling. :) I've been called a racist like 3 times now. Is that what you guys do, just play the racist card in every discussion? Certainly seems like it so far.
You should read what wrote again. It's impossible to not see how racist it is, unless you're a rascist.
Assuming China wants to control the western world or any world at all shows how you have no idea what you're talking about.
It might suprise you, but not everyone is the USA.
username checks out. The US is not the lesser evil. Its the greatest evil in the world. If Satan were at war with the US, i would support Satan because the US is the Greater Satan.
Disagree on that they are the most evil, but yes they are also evil. China, Russia, US.. They are all evil. But the US seems like the lesser evil to me.
Fucking hell. This isn't an opinion, it's a fact that the US is the enemy of the world. The US funds coups, destabilize, install military dictatorships, invades and bombs countries and it's the only country in the world to drop a nuclear bomb on people, and THEY DID IT TWICE.
Stop making "wHaT iFs" in your head and actually look at the reality of what China does. It's not even comparable.
You are not wrong. I agree they do all these things. And I don't know what China does. I live outside of a China naturally, and I don't know anything about what's going on inside. We hear scary stories of course, and the leader of the country seems insane by western standards at least. I don't think China cares about human rights very much. And I would not be surprised if people gets killed and made to disappear if they are inconvenient.
But honestly, I don't know anything. I'm not there. I haven't seen with my own eyes anything.
That's the thing, you identified an issue, we constantly hear bad and scary stuff about China all the time, that's western propaganda trying to turn China into the enemy so whatever the west, mainly the US, wants to do, becomes justifiable.
You don't need to live there to know, at least partiatly, the reality of what goes on in the country nor it's international relations. I'm not from the US, but I do know all those things I just cited in my last comment. All you need are good sources. You can start by studying how China handles its international relations. You'll quickly realize that China doesn't threat, embargo or invade other countries.
If you are genuinely interested you can learn a lot by visiting Lemmygrad and Hexbear, there are communities there to ask for information, and as long as you're wanting to learn, you will be welcomed.
Also, Xi Jinping is not insane at all like the media likes to portray him. The statement is too broad for me to tackle any specific thing, tho.
I don't think China cares about human rights very much. And I would not be surprised if people gets killed and made to disappear if they are inconvenient.
Again, very broad statement, what human rights and what you mean by this? This probably comes from more propaganda led disinformation.
Also, China is a massive country with 1.4 billion people. Do you really think we wouldn't have proof of people being repressed, killed and disappearing? The people there aren't isolated from the internet, they can access beyond the restrictions easily with VPNs which are common, it would be easy to show this stuff to the rest of the world.
Protests happen all the time in China and people critique the government, just like basically any other country.
If you want the perspective of a foreigner living there, I recommend the youtube channel Felipe Durante, he speaks Portuguese but the auto translate on youtube should be good enough, at least for english.
Thanks for the long post. I realize there is a lot of propaganda to try and decipher. We live in a world of public appearances and PR. :)
I don't know what China does
Admitting that is good. If all you've heard about China is the kind of propaganda you hear in the West, then you're going to have a distorted view and think the kind of things you do. But that's not an informed opinion, that's just repeating the anti-China messaging from Western countries.
- List of Atrocities committed by US authorities
- A Detailed Chronological List of US Interventions, Invasions, Destabilzations, and Assistance to Oppressive Regimes (ending in 2002)
- The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
- Shock therapy (economics)
- Are We The Baddies?
- The blueprint of regime change operations How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent
- Michael Parenti: Africa is Rich
Nah it would be better.
Of course you are operating under the childish assumption that either of them would act like the USA, which is nonsense. Neither ever did so in their history. Russia was always happy to stay to itself and be secure, that meant you had a great neighbour and trade partner if you did not fuck with it. China could have conquered most of its neighbours multiple times it its history, but rarely ventured out of what are now the chinese borders, historically extremely defensive and trade oriented.
meanwhile the USA has been at peace for less than 15 years during its entire history. Of all those wars, almost all were ones of aggression.
You compare two sane people to a frothing berserker yelling "MAIM! KILL! BURN! LOOT!" ad infinitum.
