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The United States‘ grip on the world is starting to get much looser. A strong China is seen as the reason, but there are many more. The US is trying to build u

The United States‘ grip on the world is starting to get much looser. A strong China is seen as the reason, but there are many more. The US is trying to build up an alliance against China, but I guess a lot of countries will want to stay neutral in that conflict. The Chinese government is doing horrible atrocities, but the US also isn’t the paragon it portrays itself to be.

01100011 6y ago
The US has a long history of hypocrisy and has its share of shameful actions, but equating it to China is just ludicrous. That said, there a lot of countries that have their own issues with authoritarianism, persecution of minorities, privacy violations, etc and they have a partner in China that is willing to look the other way for profit. It's going to be difficult for an increasingly weak US to force those countries to isolate a cheap source of goods to placate their masses.
- legulere 6y ago
  It was not my goal to equate the two - I’m not a native speaker so maybe I expressed myself imprecise. America being the good and leading the fight against evil was always just a story told to the masses. In reality you were gaining a lot from aligning to one of the blocs in the Cold War and a lot of countries had common enemies with the US. All this is missing now. Already with the Iraq war unanimous support by allied countries was not there anymore and with the Trump administration the US stopped to be a reliable partner. I don’t think you can easily say that other countries abandon their willing to try to change China. They just keep on the diplomatic way.
smsm42 6y ago
I'll take "not a paragon" over "puts dissidents and religious minorities into concentration camps, tortures and rapes them, conducts medical experiments on them and harvests their organs".

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The United States‘ grip on the world is starting to get much looser. A strong China is seen as the reason, but there are many more. The US is trying to build u

by legulere 6y ago

01100011 6y ago
The US has a long history of hypocrisy and has its share of shameful actions, but equating it to China is just ludicrous. That said, there a lot of countries that have their own issues with authoritarianism, persecution of minorities, privacy violations, etc and they have a partner in China that is willing to look the other way for profit. It's going to be difficult for an increasingly weak US to force those countries to isolate a cheap source of goods to placate their masses.
- legulere 6y ago
  It was not my goal to equate the two - I’m not a native speaker so maybe I expressed myself imprecise. America being the good and leading the fight against evil was always just a story told to the masses. In reality you were gaining a lot from aligning to one of the blocs in the Cold War and a lot of countries had common enemies with the US. All this is missing now. Already with the Iraq war unanimous support by allied countries was not there anymore and with the Trump administration the US stopped to be a reliable partner. I don’t think you can easily say that other countries abandon their willing to try to change China. They just keep on the diplomatic way.
smsm42 6y ago
I'll take "not a paragon" over "puts dissidents and religious minorities into concentration camps, tortures and rapes them, conducts medical experiments on them and harvests their organs".