• ElGosso [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      We should crowdfund more aircraft carriers for President Xi as a sign of our respect for the new world leader

    • CyberPoliceUnit1312 [he/him,any]
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      4 years ago

      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

      • BookOfTheBread [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        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.

    • HamManBad [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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?

  • _else [she/her,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    it won't be a good thing. it won't necessarily be a bad thing.

    but god will I enjoy the neoliberal tears.

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      but god will I enjoy the neoliberal tears.

      I mean, that's really all that matters at this point.

      • _else [she/her,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        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.

  • ocho [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Please Xi liberate me or at least free me from my mortal bindings 😩😩😤

  • PlantsRcoolToo [any]
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    4 years ago

    It already has. They will just keep switching the metric, like the space race.

  • Nintendude31 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    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)

    • Ryan_Holman [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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).

      • Nintendude31 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        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.

        • Ryan_Holman [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          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.

            • Ryan_Holman [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              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.

  • Peter_jordanson [doe/deer,any]
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    4 years ago

    Imagine China imposing economic sanctions on the US Like the US did with Cuba or Venezuela... :sicko-yes: