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China's GDP (PPP) overtook the US in 2016. It is currently ~30% higher and will reach double by 2035. They haven't dropped bombs on foreign soil in over 40 year
by Herring 7mo ago
China's GDP (PPP) overtook the US in 2016. It is currently ~30% higher and will reach double by 2035. They haven't dropped bombs on foreign soil in over 40 years.
- tgv 7mo agoWho cares about a few Uygurs, right? Or the Chinese Seas. Or Tibet and Taiwan. You can say what you want, but China is not a silver lining.
- soperj 7mo agoWho cares about undocumented immigrants, or Venezuela, or Iran, or Iraq, or Afganistan, or Iraq a second time, or putting Iran into it's current situation by overthrowing a democratically elected government in the 1950s, or Hawaii, or the Virgin Islands, Indigenous people of North America etc etc.
- drecked 7mo agoOr Cuba… Another brilliant humanitarian crisis caused entirely by the U.S. for no good reason at all.
- tgv 7mo agoI'm not arguing the USA is a good guy. Just that that doesn't make China any better.
- raven12345 7mo agoChina cannot be compared to the two warmongers, the US and Russia, in any dimension.
- fennecfoxy 7mo agoTibetans, uyghurs, etc? Factories full of North Korean workers under the watchful eye of their overlords, modern slavery even of your own people. As a Kiwi I look at the US, Russia, China, etc as the same. Even the UK (where I now live) is a scarier place than back home.
- raven12345 7mo agoThat's fair, because you're in a Western media environment, and the fact that you can see them as the same already proves my point.
- Herring 7mo agoWould you rather live next to a domestic abuser or a serial killer? That's the math a lot of countries are doing right now. It's hard for Americans to understand because they've never been invaded or even credibly threatened with invasion. (And yes, the US does plenty of domestic abuse too.)
- expedition32 7mo agoTo be brutally honest here: no. Nobody cares. What people want is stability. Not endless fucking wars. People in my country don't give a shit about Moses-Jesus. They do care about how much their fuel costs.
- serf 7mo ago>What people want is stability. Not endless fucking wars. this of course true for Tibet and Taiwan, too -- you just don't care because that's not where you live. ...and with that attitude globally, we get endless war.
- spiderfarmer 7mo agoHow is the US better?
- jaapz 7mo agoYou're a bit naive if you think China is a peace loving country that wouldn't bomb the living shit out of any opposing nation if they could do so without recourse Even now they are posturing in their "South-Chinese Sea", or as the Filipino's like to call it, the "West-Phillipine Sea". Also, Taiwan, Hong Kong... And then we haven't even talked about how nice they are to their own citizens. China is growing in strength and moving towards a new global world order, and the way Trump is fucking up US supremacy at the moment, China might well succeed.
- solid_fuel 7mo ago> And then we haven't even talked about how nice they are to their own citizens. Oh no, I haven't heard about that lately. What are they doing? Building camps to mass-inter their own citizens? Disappearing people from airports and then lying about where they are being kept? Withholding welfare funds to punish political enemies? Murdering civilians in the street and calling them domestic terrorists? Employing legal threats to force companies to sell technology for domestic mass surveillance?