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Anyone who hasn't realized that this is about more than economics is deluding themselves. This is about a struggle for global supremacy between two nations with
by FourScore 7y ago
Anyone who hasn't realized that this is about more than economics is deluding themselves. This is about a struggle for global supremacy between two nations with wildly different views about reality.
The CCP does not believe in the rights of the individual and holds an iron grip on China. It is instituting policies straight out of an Orwellian dystopia and wants to export its model around the world.
The most powerful nation sets the world agenda, whether we like that or not. The United States cannot allow China to set the agenda.
- resters 7y agoNot true at all, both nations have the following: - Orwellian social credit systems - Content censorship "great firewall" - Widespread imprisonment of minorities - Concentration camps for especially undesirable minorities In some ways each nation is better, and in some ways worse. But the important point is that both are using the same playbook to determine their domestic policies. China had previously been "worse" for its own trade protectionism, but Trump decided to increase the US use of trade protectionism (a handout to exporters at the expense of importers and consumers as a whole). To get a sense of the magnitude of the similarity between the two nations, consider the constant stream of stories in the US media about Chinese human rights abuses, etc., while the conditions in US prisons is largely ignored. The US has absolutely no moral high ground over China, and it must be very amusing to Chinese people to observe the level of indignation that Americans feel about Chinese practices.
- FourScore 7y agoCompletely false on all points. If you want to equate prisons for lawbreakers with concentration camps for political prisoners there's no further discussion we can have.