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“The alternative to a rules-based order is a world in which might makes right and winner takes all and that would be a far more violent and unstable world,” Blinken said.

The Chinese fired back. Yang Jiechi, a member of the Politburo, offered a lengthy monologue in which he said Western nations don’t represent global public opinion and called the U.S. the “champion” of cyber-attacks.

“Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States,” he said, citing the killing of Black Americans and the Black Lives Matter movement. Near the end of his opening remarks, he said Blinken’s comments weren’t “normal” and added that in response “mine aren’t either.”

Things only got worse from there. Cameras were ushered from the room, only to be called back in. Yang and Foreign Minister Wang Yi took the opportunity to follow up with even more criticism. “Is that the way you had hoped to conduct this dialogue?” Yang asked, according to his delegation’s translator. “I think we thought too well of the United States. The United States isn’t qualified to speak to China from a position of strength.”

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Mic Drop .... :xi-clap: :xi-lib-tears:

    • Malikto [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      You're making a ridiculous exaggeration, but the gist of what you say is essentially true.

      Heck, after Trump and Brexit, a lot of westerners aren't so hot on the idea of democracy either. If it can produce invalid results like that, then it's obvious that we need a new system, a post-democracy system. The current system is broken if reactionaries can use it for their advantage. How can you reform the systems that replicate inequities? You can't. Democracy is not the end, we need post democracy systems. And they have to be better than the average Joe. Because that's the point we are at, problems are over the head of the average Joe. We've all seen what happens when the Joes all speak together - disaster.

      "You are dictatorial." My dear sirs, you are right, that is just what we are. All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.

      -- Mao Zedong

        • Malikto [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          So...you...random internet commenter...know socialism better than Mao Zedong.

          Well OK then.

          Personally I think he was one of the most astute political commentators ever, and had much to say that is worth reading. And he not only outlasted the Japanese, but he won a civil war where the other side had every possible advantage, including massive weapons transfers from the USA.

          "Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'"

          -- Mao