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Not when whatever is happening also causes the political, social and economic collapse of your own nation state. There are simpler ways to compete with a rival
by shadowprofile77 6y ago
Not when whatever is happening also causes the political, social and economic collapse of your own nation state. There are simpler ways to compete with a rival superpower, ways much less prone to exploding in any perpetrator's face. One of them is simply, well, doing nothing but outpacing them economically through more or less usual means. Not too hard to consider for a productive country with 5 times the population of its main rival.
- banads 6y agoYou're assuming that political elites all care more about the general population (which as you've noted, there is a large, expendable surplus of) than consolidating and increasing their own power. To clarify, I don't think COVID19 was a Chinese conspiracy, just making note of historically self evident incentive structures that others seem naively oblivious to.