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Both are bad but there is a qualitative difference between the badness of USA's global objectives and China's global objectives, and the means by which they wor
by mvdtnz 3y ago
Both are bad but there is a qualitative difference between the badness of USA's global objectives and China's global objectives, and the means by which they work towards these objectives. The equivalence people draw between western powers and China is really puzzling to me. And no, I'm not American and I am no fan of American foreign policy.
- ZoomerCretin 3y agoThe United States has a history going back a full century of directly and indirectly forcing extremely violent changes in government when foreign governments are insufficiently deferential to American political/economic interests. Kissinger's state department alone aided and abetted multiple genocides and the deaths of over a million civilians. Not only has the PRC never done this, they take the public stance that they have absolutely no interest in this, and publicly espouse the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries. The only obvious Chinese global objective is a world where they exist as a non-ideological economic partner willing to profit from trade without strings attached, like America's enforced austerity and privatization "reforms".