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Indeed. From the safety of their proverbial fortress city, they can undermine Western power and project their own in the resulting vacuum. A tried and true tact
by bobthechef 6y ago
Indeed. From the safety of their proverbial fortress city, they can undermine Western power and project their own in the resulting vacuum. A tried and true tactic adapted to modern instruments.
What I'm not sure about is why anyone is surprised. Especially in an age where everything is framed as a struggle for power, you would expect this to be the case, especially for an emerging superpower. Economics is here just war by other means, and consumerist lust for cheap goods the Trojan horse by which China will succeed.
- splithalf 6y agoI don’t think consumer lust is to blame though I hear that often. Perhaps it’s the trade, and those who profit off it that are to blame? Why blame people and not apple, Foxconn or Huawei? Humans must come first, nations and corporations should be subservient. Laws should favor human freedoms over the business of multinational mega corporations. Mega corporations that are controlled directly by the military of a major global superpower, Huawei, should be the most suspect in terms of violating human rights. Yet the posters here in this thread want to blame consumers and defend Huawei and the Chinese military. Astounding to me so many here care more about the right of corporations, military controlled corporations at that, over the rights and dignity of the individual. Disgusting frankly.