they will just retreat to "Number of Aircraft Carriers" and not aknowledge it..
We should crowdfund more aircraft carriers for President Xi as a sign of our respect for the new world leader
that's when you hit them with the info: https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2020/11/chinas-new-aircraft-carrier-killer-is-worlds-largest-air-launched-missile/
Edit: On second thought it might agitate them in the wrong way and entrench them in the china bad brainworm
I kept blanking over the killer part, so it was China’s New Aircraft Carrier Is World’s Largest Air-Launched Missile... I was like damn, an aircraft carrier that is also a giant missile like some crazy transformer, who'd have thought.
My impression as a yank is that NZ seems primed to be neutral and Aus is almost guaranteed to be a bitter clinger, does that track with your perception?
it won't be a good thing. it won't necessarily be a bad thing.
but god will I enjoy the neoliberal tears.
but god will I enjoy the neoliberal tears.
I mean, that's really all that matters at this point.
i mean, the survival of humanity and all its accumulated wonder and beauty and grossness and weirdness? or is that too much of a long shot?
a classless stateless society? maybe? no? okay. yeah that's even less likely than the first.
No, only neoliberal tears. And stonks. So much stonks you won't believe it.
It already has. They will just keep switching the metric, like the space race.
I don’t think this is going to happen as quickly as some think it is. I’m more worried than looking forward to laughing confrontations between a great power and a rising power never end well. (Or at least rarely do)
Honestly, I think its more likely that China becomes the dominant power in Asia and perhaps eastern Europe (some might say they already are). Even then, I think that there would be exceptions (namely India, Japan and South Korea).
Yeah I think we are actually going to move into a dual great power world, rather than one being dominant over the other. I’m still deeply deeply worried about a war between the two powers. As I said, tensions between great powers and rising great powers almost never end well.
I’m more scared than ready to laugh at neoliberals, if I’m being frank.
Those are completely valid feelings.
That being said, the United States gets so many products from China and China gets a lot of business from the United States. That right there makes me think this will not be the same as The Cold War.
Another reason why I don't think that a direct military conflict between the United States and China is likely is that, realistically speaking, China does not have as strong of a military as America. This is not to mention that America's allies, overall, are much stronger than China's allies.
Imagine China imposing economic sanctions on the US Like the US did with Cuba or Venezuela... :sicko-yes:
