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China went from a colonial backwater to the #1 real economy in the world, without endless foreign wars. Recent history irrefutably disproves your "might is righ
by pphysch 5y ago
China went from a colonial backwater to the #1 real economy in the world, without endless foreign wars. Recent history irrefutably disproves your "might is right" framework.
- petre 5y agoIt had a bit of help with US being its #1 market and aiding technology transfer by moving all production offshore.
- Apocryphon 5y agoChina was only a colonial backwater during the time centered around the "century of humiliation." It was an unchallenged sprawling empire for millennia. This is just reversion to the mean.
- pphysch 5y agoIt is fundamentally an issue of separatism, and associated violent extremism/terrorism. The idea that it is some kind of "race war" is a pure fantasy of race realist Westerners.
- sremani 5y agoThere is a reason why USD is the world reserve currency. How much trade is done using your '#1 real economy currency'. Export-Oriented economies have a lot of problems and that will be evident as the Global growth is coming to stagnation this decade. Power is power - that is why every country maintains a military, even the small ones. The recent history is 'stabler' than past because of Bretonwoods and various maritime security guarantees. That did not happen in vacuum and China is not the architect of the system.