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The claim of the South China Sea is a violation of International Law and the Convention of the Sea. China has publicly acknowledged they are pointing DF-16 mis
by myrandomcomment 9y ago
The claim of the South China Sea is a violation of International Law and the Convention of the Sea.
China has publicly acknowledged they are pointing DF-16 missiles at Taiwan.
China has publicly stated they will use force to prevent an independent Taiwan, despite the fact that Taiwan is a functioning democracy, unlike China.
China arrest and brutalized dissidents.
The rule of law in China is what ever the current leader says it is - Where is 吳小暉 (Wu Xiaohui)?
China kidnapped booksellers from Hong Kong in violation of the treaty that governs Hong Kong because of their political views.
I could make a list a mile long.
I stand by my statement that China's rise to power is scary because the motivations of the government of China are not driven by democratic principles that provides for checks on power.
The USA could have had an empire after WW2 and there was NO ONE IN THE WORLD that could have stopped them. Instead the USA paid even more of their money to re-built the world and help the countries which they fought.
The USA makes stupid mistakes sometimes, but they alway eventually sort it and sort it on the right side of history even if it takes time.
- meric 9y agoNone of that has anything to do with "Pay back for humiliation in the 1800's". What you've described is actions of the Chinese government, I don't believe for one second Chinese people support all these actions - I do not, my parents do not, and my grandparents do not, therefore it's not true. Do my grandparents want "payback" on the Japanese for her suffering in world war 2? If she does I won't begrudge her for that. But you cannot claim I do.
- tanderson92 9y agoWhen describing the broad beliefs of a group of people, there is general agreement that the beliefs are not held universally. I would think we can all agree on that; therefore your mention of your family (which is itself necessarily highly correlated and less representative) is of suspect value.
- perseusprime11 9y agoCan you point to any links that shows the chinese people protest on streets about their Govt's stance on south china sea, Tibet and Taiwan? If they don't, does that not mean they agree 100% with their Govt?
- brettdong 9y ago'The Chinese people agree their government's stance on south china sea, Tibet and Taiwan' doesn't mean 'they agree everything with their government'.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> The USA makes stupid mistakes sometimes, but they alway eventually sort it and sort it on the right side of history even if it takes time. There are several areas where the US has not yet done so (including some that are older than the US, like treatment of Native Americans, and including some where it's heading in the opposite direction of the right side), so the idea that the US always does so is empty nationalistic sloganeering.
- linkregister 9y agoYeah, myrandomcomment makes some excellent points, but the U.S. has plenty of unresolved wrongs. Compared to most aggressor countries, it is possible that the U.S. has the best ratio of reparations to destruction, but that doesn't mean it is blameless. A non-exhaustive list of the countries the U.S. owes in terms of reparations for wrongdoing: 1. Iran 2. Nicaragua 3. Dominican Republic 4. Haiti 5. Cuba