>As someone neither American nor Chinese I feel China's far less likely to come along and bother me when I'm minding my own business than America is. I'd rathe

>As someone neither American nor Chinese I feel China's far less likely to come along and bother me when I'm minding my own business than America is. I'd rather be "bothered" by the US than "bothered" by China because in the former you can at least make the case that they shouldn't be bothering you and expect it to be considered. Government as the sum of all the bits that make it up behaves like a power hungry sociopath. Given the choice I'll take the sociopath that at least nominally respects human rights.