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US is scared.
by immigrantheart 4y ago
US is scared.
- rvnx 4y agoThe world isn't really going in the right direction and any sign toward appeasing or pacification is crucial at such stage :/ What I am calling for: closer ties and negotiations and collaborative work.
- thriftwy 4y agoI hope you do realize you've been smoking at the proverbial gas station for 30 years now? The first step when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. Too late for that now, I have to admit.
- rvnx 4y agoI'm not sure I understand (litterally, without being sarcastic or something). You mean that the point of no return is already passed and that there is no reason to try to calm down things using diplomacy and cooperation, that it's purely on a power level that there is the solution ?
- thriftwy 4y agoAre the China-embarrassing state visits to Taiwan an example of diplomacy and cooperation? That kind of cooperation and diplomacy is called coercion and incitement. The problem is, China and India have grown up now and they are going to behave like adults. And how do adult role models behave in the century XXI? Afghanistan, Lybia, Iraq, that's how.
- onepointsixC 4y agoNo other country has such fits of rage to a diplomatic visit. Pretending that having leaders of one country visit another is coercion or incitement is gaslighting.
- thriftwy 4y agoTell that to Japan which issues diplomatic notes of protest every time Russian officials (not even foreign diplomats!) visit Russian Kuril islands. Meanwhile, Kuril islands: contested by Japan but 70 years under Russian administration.
- fudgefactorfive 4y ago> living in Europe > any sign of appeasing would be positive ...yada yada doomed to repeat yada yada...
- bequanna 4y agoWhat kind of appeasement did you have in mind?
- xster 4y agoProbably the same kind of appeasement China does for the US by not selling weapons to Alaska and conducting freedom of navigation patrols between Alaska and Washington.
- immigrantheart 4y agoSorry what does this comment mean? I genuinely don't understand (not a native speaker). EDIT: Oh I think I get it, you want more cooperation, peace, among humans/countries etc. Yeah, most people want it, but in today's world, it is increasingly unlikely. On one hand, I don't like the fact that Western world emphasizes diversity and multiculturalism too much. We are too different, and forcing everyone to accept everyone is just pipe dream. At one point my values will clash with someone else's. I think fences, borders, are good. Deglobalization is good, slower economy is good. Just make sure we don't invade one another (I know, also pipe dream). I also quite admire Xi Jinping. He is a dictator, and knows that he serves his country, an ethnic nation. He doesn't pretend to care about other ethnic minorities or other nations. He made China great. Hopefully China doesn't invade other countries, and prefer to be defensive. In short: fences make good neighbors, let's all slow down on (forced) diversity and multiculturalism, let's all go back to our own fences, and cooperate from within the fences. We can visit our neighbors sometimes, have a good laugh, and after that we go home to our own fences. Cooperation is overrated. I'd settle with peaceful coexistence. It is heaven on Earth. I don't seek downvote, but I know I will be downvoted for this opinion, just make sure you squint to read the light colored comments.
- rvnx 4y agoYeah you found the right word, peaceful coexistence :) I'm maybe too dreamy, but I feel we are all prisoners on Earth, until we reach another planet. And I believe game theory shows that prisoners are better collaborating ;) As an entrepreneur, if I'd be running NVidia (or just investor in $NVDA), I'd be extremely annoyed that I am forbidden to sell my products to a large market, just because of political pressure. Regarding your solutions and analysis, I don't know much about China politics other than gifs or memes that I saw on reddit, so I cannot say :D
- immigrantheart 4y agoThe problem with being in the same cell is eventually one wants to smoke and one hates smoke. Everyone should just be in their own cell, and we can do whatever we want. We can still play card game and talk. China is the only old civilization that still strive today. As a country, they are really big. It takes tremendous amount of leadership to bring China to what it is today. Yes the memes about China are true, like the Uyghur Muslims treatment, the police state etc. But despite all of these, despite the lack of diversity, despite the lack of Western values, they still made great progress. It shows that a nation doesn't need diversity and multiculturalism to be strong. I'm fine with diversity and multiculturalism, I just prefer the fenced version of it. To tell the truth, I am scared of China too (and I am scared of their influence and power over my home country, I currently reside in the US). But I respect their strength.
- systemvoltage 4y agoNo, the US world police is winding down (Bretton Woods era). Expect massive chaos everywhere except in US for decades to come.
- immigrantheart 4y agoYes I read the book as well. US already has inside chaos (and will get way way, way way, way way worse), don't need to worry about other countries chaos.
- decremental 4y agoThe on-purpose collapse of the global American Empire is going to cause pain for the entire world.
- immigrantheart 4y agoEh, its life.
- emkoemko 4y agohope not i wouldn't want the CCP being the global leader...but in the end we got rid of Nazi Germany we will do the same with CCP China.
- emkoemko 4y agohmmm so CPP is good? not sure why the down votes?
- Der_Einzige 4y agoHitler didn't have hundreds of nukes...
- systemvoltage 4y agoCould very well be, I sincerely hope not. If you remove the facade of petty wars of insert-your-current-thing, I was surprised to see that Biden is even more pro-US and anti-China/Russia than Trump from a strategic standpoint. US is becoming the IBM of sorts of nation. Slow, sluggish, inefficient and it's gonna continue to peddle on as far as no one fucks with the food supplies (or guns).