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China is in some ways like pre-WWI Germany in that it does not have an empire and everyone else does so it wants one to. But Chinese are not starving due to san

China is in some ways like pre-WWI Germany in that it does not have an empire and everyone else does so it wants one to. But Chinese are not starving due to sanctions and have not lost a war, etc. Chinese are doing well. China is just flexing its muscle because it can. That is all. Not because it needs to or that it's people are psychologically in fascism mode.

redis_mlc 6y ago
What you wrote demonstrates a superficial understanding. > But Chinese are not starving due to sanctions They are starving due to natural (floods and locusts) and manmade (dams) disasters. Pre-corona, China imported 30% of its food, and today it's over 50%. Mining their few harbors would starve half of their population to death in 6 months. China has basically no welfare programs for non-CCP citizens. If Trump's policies are continued by Biden, China will also suffer financially and technology-wise. Trump's policies would have crumbled China in 4-8 years. > Not because it needs to or that it's people are psychologically in fascism mode. The CCP has to flex because of ideology. It has been in a quiet war with the US since Mao in the 1950's, and it needs to usurp and destroy the US to maintain absolute hold on power - there cannot be an alternative for people to compare to the CCP in their minds. That means an invasion of Taiwan ASAP and war with the US after that (China has more military ships now than the US, which is a certain sign of preparation for war.)
dmix 6y ago
Bingo, comfortable upwardly mobile populations aren’t too friendly to any sort of serious war. Let alone total A majority in an agitated state that is being repressed or prodded (realistically or not) by other power blocs is what is worrying. Even ideological extremism most just happens locally. Like the Russian socialist Revolutions and countless jihads.

redis_mlc 6y ago

What you wrote demonstrates a superficial understanding. > But Chinese are not starving due to sanctions They are starving due to natural (floods and locusts) and manmade (dams) disasters. Pre-corona, China imported 30% of its food, and today it's over 50%. Mining their few harbors would starve half of their population to death in 6 months. China has basically no welfare programs for non-CCP citizens. If Trump's policies are continued by Biden, China will also suffer financially and technology-wise. Trump's policies would have crumbled China in 4-8 years. > Not because it needs to or that it's people are psychologically in fascism mode. The CCP has to flex because of ideology. It has been in a quiet war with the US since Mao in the 1950's, and it needs to usurp and destroy the US to maintain absolute hold on power - there cannot be an alternative for people to compare to the CCP in their minds. That means an invasion of Taiwan ASAP and war with the US after that (China has more military ships now than the US, which is a certain sign of preparation for war.)

dmix 6y ago

Bingo, comfortable upwardly mobile populations aren’t too friendly to any sort of serious war. Let alone total A majority in an agitated state that is being repressed or prodded (realistically or not) by other power blocs is what is worrying. Even ideological extremism most just happens locally. Like the Russian socialist Revolutions and countless jihads.