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Is that true? Seems they are doing a lot in Africa. And even if it were, it's hard to believe they'll treat foreigners any better than their own people.
by yters 7y ago
Is that true? Seems they are doing a lot in Africa. And even if it were, it's hard to believe they'll treat foreigners any better than their own people.
- luckylion 7y agoThey are buying Africa via development aid, that's quite different from bombing Africa. The Chinese will certainly leverage their power, but they tend to do it in more subtle ways, at least where their power isn't overwhelming. Their posturing in the South China Sea certainly looks different from their behavior in Africa or South America. But as I mentioned, I don't believe that it's because they care about human rights, the sovereignty of countries etc, it's that they can't get away with openly bombing random countries on the other side of the globe yet. The US -for the most part- can, so they don't care for subtlety and just do.
- yters 7y agoWho is bombing Africa? It seems a lot of moral outrage against the US stems from false equivalence.
- boomboomsubban 7y agoThe US has been routinely bombing both Libya and Somalia for around a decade.
- yters 7y agoYes but for what reason? Just for fun? To take them over? To combat terrorism?
- boomboomsubban 7y agoOstensibly it's combating terrorism, but basically American imperialism.
- yters 7y agoI must have missed when we colonized Somalia and Libya. Thanks for the update.
- boomboomsubban 7y agoAmerican imperialism has never been about traditional colonialism, so I'm not sure what you mean. As you asked originally, I find neither the US nor China to be moral, but I can't understand the outrage over China's acts while ignoring and trying to justify US acts.