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> Do you not see those articles where China build artificial islands and try to enforce the China seas as if they own all of it? They bully everybody, Vietnam,
by landryraccoon 9y ago
> Do you not see those articles where China build artificial islands and try to enforce the China seas as if they own all of it? They bully everybody, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, etc..
I am an American, but the USA is not exactly a paragon of non-interventionalism. The US has had a far more aggressive and interventionalist foreign policy over the past century than China. I think that America would serve not only the global order but it's own citizens far better by offering a more standoffish, less aggressive foreign policy. That would also go a long way if you want to take the high road with other countries on being too aggressive with their neighbors.
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- aaron-lebo 9y agoChina has not been able to project power over the last century, so of course the US is going to have been more interventionist. Even today the Chinese navy only has one relatively small, foreign made aircraft carrier. Compare that to the US navy in the 1940s; maybe the only thing that allowed China to continue to exist as a sovereign nation.
- zipwitch 9y agoThey launched their first domestically built carrier last April. (Technically, it hasn't completed what we'd call sea trials and commissioning.) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/world/asia/china-aircraft-carrier.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/world/asia/china-aircraft...
- sho 9y ago> the Chinese navy only has one relatively small, foreign made aircraft carrier You know what's better than aircraft carriers? An island!
- ageofwant 9y agoIf China decides to build 10 Ford class carriers today, they will have 10 in 5 years time. And there is nothing that anyone can do about that.
- travmatt 9y agoYour suggestion is that by ending the Pax Americana, everyone would be safer?
- landryraccoon 9y agoI don’t understand your question. Does Pax Americana mean invading Vietnam or Iraq? Pax means “Peace”.
- travmatt 9y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana
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