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I’m no fan of Trump but even a broken clock is right twice a day. China is not our friend, and they do decidedly unfriendly things.

• senttoschool 4y ago
  China was our friend. It's the US that decided to unfriend China. Not the other way around.
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  • labster 4y ago
    China is nobody’s friend but China’s. You cannot interact with the Chinese government in anything other than a transactional manner. The only unfriending that happened is the US and China stopped agreeing on some limits, which hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.
    • senttoschool 4y ago
      >which hurt the feelings of the Chinese people Yea, this did not happen. I was living in China during most of Trump's presidency. People in China did not get their feelings hurt because of trade disputes. Everyone knew it was just business. But US mass media propaganda took it to a whole new level with anti-China sentiment during Trump years. Perhaps it was a tactic to distract Americans of their real issues? Maybe put the blame on some other entity?
      • luma 4y ago
        > Yea, this did not happen We know, which is why that line from the CCP is ridiculous every time they say it. You're missing the larger picture, nobody is upset at the people of China. I also don't fault China for doing how they do (I mean, apart from the genocide etc). They have been very successful at leveraging everything they have to pull the nation out of poverty. They did some rotten shit internally and externally to make that happen, but so have most nations. None of that makes them our friend.