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China's claims are weak, but the United States Government's complete inability to prioritize has hurt their ability to confront China. That being said, China i
by hugh4life 8y ago
China's claims are weak, but the United States Government's complete inability to prioritize has hurt their ability to confront China. That being said, China is alienating it's neighbors and they will depend on the USG to guarantee freedom of navigation.
- jessaustin 8y agoMost areas in the world would be improved by a reduction in USA interference, just as you describe having happened in the South China Sea. Our omnipresent bullying makes it too easy for potential rivals as well as potential allies. Without us as a foil they take more care in finding their own way. [EDIT: or, to say it less self-centered fashion, possibilities emerge when they can devote fewer resources to handling interference from afar].
- crazy_monkey 8y agoReturn Taiwan and Vladivostok and I'm sure the government would be willing to listen.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoWhy would such isolstionalism work now when it failed so horribly during the interwar era?
- arcbyte 8y agoIsolationism != Staying home
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoNo, that is exactly what it means.
- Nomentatus 8y agoThe only example I cant think of immediately, Iran, is not so much better off, nor its people.
- jessaustin 8y agoEveryone in Libya was better off before USA and some random Europeans interfered there.
- Nomentatus 8y agoThere's been a lot of chaos, but it started before the U.S. intervened, as I remember. The U.S. and European footprint has been very light - maybe, as in Syria, way too light to create order.
- forapurpose 8y agoNot the people in Qaddafi's prisons.
- lostlogin 8y agoI can tell if you’re joking or if I’m misunderstanding (there is a typo in there I assume?). You can’t name any other country that would be better off if the US hadn’t meddled? I can name more than that which my country meddled in and made a mess, and I’m from New Zealand.
- Nomentatus 8y agoI'm from Canada, and we suffer from U.S. nonsense and exploitation (which cost me a brother, actually), but you have to be next to somebody, and they're above average as neighbors, in this world.
- phyller 8y ago> but you have to be next to somebody Unless you are New Zealand :D
- dionian 8y agoWhich Southeastern Asian countries, other than P.R. China, view the USA as a "bully"? How many of them would consider P.R. China to be more of a bully than the USA?
- Yizahi 8y agoHow about reduction of Chinese interference? Or Russian interference? Wouldn't there be a significant improvement in the world after that?