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The real/bigger thread in the future will be a hyper-nationalistic China. I can only hope we apply the lessons learned to China as well.

rasz 5y ago
China is already preparing. https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1500537455921053701 https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1500537455921053701 "China is now launching the enormous warmongering campaign. In 2021 they produced the most expensive Chinese movie ever, The Battle at Lake Changjin, on the battle of Korean War against the US" "If you watch recent Chinese movies like the Wolf Warrior, you'll see that China is preparing its public opinion for the war with the US. China may not say it to the US but they're absolutely saying this to their citizens. You can't fool yourself about it"
- throw7 5y ago
  absolutely. c.f. top gun et al.
snek_case 5y ago
I wonder how long China and Russia will remain allied. There's similarities between the two since they're both authoritarian countries, practically dictatorships. But China is very racially uniform and xenophobic, believes Han Chinese people to be superior. Ultimately, they must believe themselves superior to Russians as well.
- jacquesm 5y ago
  Play both ends against the middle. Have the US and the EU duke it out with Russia, then run off with the spoils. It would make good sense from their perspective and it might just happen.
- jansen555 5y ago
  Superiority complex is a westerner thing (eg. Semite, aryan, American white). Chinese historically has no notion of racial superiority like Nazi Germany or even Imperial Japanese. They don't even consider blood purity like Japanese. Their cultural norms is to preserve what they own. Like HK, Macao, Tibet and Taiwan. They will take decades or centuries to get it back because that is what they own even if it is millenia ago. The closest this idea would be Israel...but unlike them Chinese dont view it as God-given. It is more like it is because it is as nature dictate. China and Russia wont be allies for long because of difference in races. But as long it serves their immediate purpose they will do so. Read up how Jin fall to Mongol because the sourthern Song want to appease the Mongol. In the end they fall too. The northern also killed their best general because that can buy appeasement with Mongols. Chinese historically is like that all in tactically but very short-sighted when it comes to long-term strategy.

rasz 5y ago

China is already preparing. https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1500537455921053701 https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1500537455921053701 "China is now launching the enormous warmongering campaign. In 2021 they produced the most expensive Chinese movie ever, The Battle at Lake Changjin, on the battle of Korean War against the US" "If you watch recent Chinese movies like the Wolf Warrior, you'll see that China is preparing its public opinion for the war with the US. China may not say it to the US but they're absolutely saying this to their citizens. You can't fool yourself about it"

throw7 5y ago
absolutely. c.f. top gun et al.

snek_case 5y ago

I wonder how long China and Russia will remain allied. There's similarities between the two since they're both authoritarian countries, practically dictatorships. But China is very racially uniform and xenophobic, believes Han Chinese people to be superior. Ultimately, they must believe themselves superior to Russians as well.

jacquesm 5y ago
Play both ends against the middle. Have the US and the EU duke it out with Russia, then run off with the spoils. It would make good sense from their perspective and it might just happen.
jansen555 5y ago
Superiority complex is a westerner thing (eg. Semite, aryan, American white). Chinese historically has no notion of racial superiority like Nazi Germany or even Imperial Japanese. They don't even consider blood purity like Japanese. Their cultural norms is to preserve what they own. Like HK, Macao, Tibet and Taiwan. They will take decades or centuries to get it back because that is what they own even if it is millenia ago. The closest this idea would be Israel...but unlike them Chinese dont view it as God-given. It is more like it is because it is as nature dictate. China and Russia wont be allies for long because of difference in races. But as long it serves their immediate purpose they will do so. Read up how Jin fall to Mongol because the sourthern Song want to appease the Mongol. In the end they fall too. The northern also killed their best general because that can buy appeasement with Mongols. Chinese historically is like that all in tactically but very short-sighted when it comes to long-term strategy.