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When I see things like this I can't help but consider that China is some 400% larger than the US, in a slightly smaller landmass than we have, all while borderi
by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
When I see things like this I can't help but consider that China is some 400% larger than the US, in a slightly smaller landmass than we have, all while bordering 14 different nations - including several hotspots of Islamic extremism such as Pakistan and Afghanistan. I'm certainly not defending China, but I simultaneously find it difficult to condemn them.
How would we cope with a similar situation? And as a deeper and deeper divide is drawn within our nation - in no small part based on political extremism, I can't help but think that our current system is ultimately headed towards a climax that's not going to have a happy ending. And we live in a nation that ought be a million times easier to manage according to most measurable factors.
- Lionsion 8y ago> How would we cope with a similar situation? I've heard China described as one of the last classical empires. All the others, such as the British Empire, Ottoman Empire, Soviet Empire have dissolved. So "our" solution would be independence for the imperial possessions.
- TangoTrotFox 8y agoAre you suggesting that as the US population increases you'd expect to see states starting to secede from the nation? Or that that would be a productive solution to whatever problems we may face in the coming years? For China the areas outside the mainland such as Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan are already effectively independent and in any case are tangential to the issue here.
- Lionsion 8y agoI'm saying Xinjiang and Tibet are akin to the Philippines, India, and Greece: conquests that should get their independence. The latter independence movements had varying degrees of conflict, but I think few argue that those countries should still be ruled by their former foreign masters.