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A solution to what exactly? There are so many layers of politics to unravel in China it boggles the mind. Do you target the ruling class? Communist philosophy?
by foxyv 7y ago
A solution to what exactly? There are so many layers of politics to unravel in China it boggles the mind. Do you target the ruling class? Communist philosophy? Xenophobia? Each has a distinct solution that is extremely hard to execute and takes immense effort and economic dedication over decades or centuries. Hence the urge to advocate for short term "doing something" solutions that have no effect and require no sacrifice on our part.
The only real solution to this is to offer to take Chinese untouchables currently being purged into the US as exiles and then offer incentives to Chinese elite to get them to agree to this. At which point the US would be sacrificing significant resources to import hundreds of thousands pissed off, destitute, Tibetan Muslims. Political will for such a solution is nil. Similar to the Nazi holocaust actually...
- RugnirViking 7y agoReally I would say any diploatic feud or human rights abuses that we'd rather wasn't happening with another country that can't be solved with negotiation
- foxyv 7y agoWhat you are asking for is a method to FORCE a country to change its core beliefs in order to stop them from engaging in what we objectively perceive as evil on their part. The only short term (less than a century) and effective method is military force. It is nearly impossible to change someone's core beliefs. There is a saying that progress comes one funeral at a time. To make progress go faster the solution is a LOT of funerals. China subscribes to this philosophy and is engaging in such a solution. The question is, do we really want to be pulled into that madness? We can disengage from them economically but would that be a good idea? The reason why we've invested so much in economic relations with China is to ensure that we don't HAVE to go to war with them. Our economic interdependence allows us to have some leverage to slow down China from engaging in Manifest Destiny style conquering of Korea, Japan, and most of the south pacific. The long term solution is to change their culture by injecting our own into their younger generations and waiting for them to replace their ossified elders. Right now we're doing a pretty good job of that but China is fighting back pretty hard.