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Why us and china can't be friends?
by shanghaikid 2y ago
Why us and china can't be friends?
- ssl-3 2y agoWe are friends, comrade. (But even "friends" sometimes sling some shit at eachother every now and then when it benefits them. It just usually doesn't cost $1.6B when this happens.)
- jamalaramala 2y agoCommercial interests associated to hypocrisy.
- Animats 2y agoWhy can't US and China just be competitors, as it was before Xi got on this conquer Taiwan kick? He's another one of those aging boomers who hung on too long.
- limit499karma 2y ago> another one of those aging boomers How very disappointing, Mr. Nagle.
- TiredOfLife 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_Chin... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_of_the_Pe... Support of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine To name a few.
- DiogenesKynikos 2y agoDoesn't stop the US from backing Israel and Saudi Arabia.
- solardev 2y agoHuman rights abuses don't stop us from allying with Saudi Arabia, Israel, Armenia, Egypt, Pakistan, the UAE... and of course we have plenty of abuses within our own borders. But China is a threat in a way those others aren't. Not just an economic competitor but potentially the next superpower after ours fades, and maybe next century's dominant culture. We're scared of them because they challenge everything we believe about our own model's superiority...
- tim333 2y agoIt was all quite friendly under Deng Xiaoping when China was mostly about peaceful trade. Sadly under Xi it's moving more to building up its military and trying to take other people land.