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It's a personal choice ... but if you study Chinese politics I think you'll find their lack of aggression isn't an orientation, its a historical lack of capabil
by TheMagicHorsey 5y ago
It's a personal choice ... but if you study Chinese politics I think you'll find their lack of aggression isn't an orientation, its a historical lack of capability ... which is now changing.
The US Empire is corrupt, but its processes of decision making and power are relatively transparent (open elections, senate trials, etc.). The Chinese system is entirely opaque. In a sense, all citizens in China are ultimately completely vulnerable to the whims of the state ... there is no recourse for arbitrary detention, seizure of property, etc. This is a model China seeks to export in the long run ... either directly, or through affiliates.
America sucks ... but as people often say about Democracy, its the worst system of governance except all the rest.
- lucian1900 5y agoThe US isn’t democratic. Every human on earth is at the whims of US state power. There is no recourse for arbitrary detention (like Guantanamo or the border concentration camps), assassinations, invasions, coups, etc. I’ve studied Chinese politics and have reached the opposite conclusion to you.
- TheMagicHorsey 5y agoI suppose we'll have to disagree, considering that you even know about Guantanomo through US court documents is a reason to doubt your line of thinking.
- lucian1900 5y agoGuantanamo was not public for a long time and any legal proceedings were famously impeded. We didn’t even find out about the torture for a long time. The film The Mauritian portraits this quite well. Abu Ghraib wasn’t made public through courts at all. How many other such places exist and still kept secret for now? The past would suggest there are at least several.
- TheMagicHorsey 5y agoAmerica's internal process revealed these things. Its own journalists and its own whistleblower mechanisms. If you lived in America, you would see the huge amount of protests on the streets against the Iraq war and other international adventures. Also, US politicians with significant power regularly speak out against such adventures. This is America's internal control mechanisms. There are no such mechanisms in China. Anyway, there's no point discussing this further. Either you understand this level of nuance, your you inherently believe in the notion that "all countries are equally bad" type philosophy with no regard to how information is brought to light and how a country is constrained.
- lucian1900 5y agoAll countries aren’t equally bad, the US is far worse than any other. Guantanamo bay is still open, despite what happens there being illegal under Cuban, US and international law. Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning are still persecuted. You either understand that your country is oppressing the entire world or you blindly believe everything your ruling class tells you.