BTW I don’t buy into the narrative that China is the better world dominator. Their human rights record is abhorrent, and they clearly aren’t a democracy. And I don’t see that changing anytinme soon.
China’s human rights record is abhorrent, but they’re mostly willing to keep it in their pants and not overthrow governments or fund genocides on the other side of the world.
You do realize I’m talking geopolitics right? The comment I replied to said “BTW I don’t buy into the narrative that China is the better world dominator.” What China does within and next to its borders is literally not what we’re taking about.
tell that to someone who lives in an EU country where corrupt politicians are building out surveillance systems with chinese tech, and bringing the country into other large chinese projects from even larger chinese loans, along with chinese battery factories that are polluting our environment!
to someone, like me.
a neighboring country is also neck deep in this shit
I mean that’s not what I’m talking about though, and in the first place does it really matter if the surveillance systems are Chinese or American/Israeli?
They sure like waving their sticks an awful lot in the South China Sea and pissing off all their neighbours though. And in some cases outright hostile. The US needs to be strong to keep China at bay and the reverse needs to be a true, a weaker US will let China get even more belligerent and as someone who’s a neighbour of the Chinese, it’s not a good sight to see.
They sure like waving their sticks an awful lot in the South China Sea and pissing off all their neighbours though.
Oh yeah absolutely, but then again look at what the US does and has done in the Americas. It more than evens out I think, hence my focus on stuff they do away from home.
China’s human rights record is abhorrent, but they’re mostly willing to keep it in their pants and not overthrow governments or fund genocides on the other side of the world.
Uhhhh…
Not overthrow governments on the other side of the world.
It does not make the slightest difference for location of where a country is overthrowing governments
Of course it doesn’t, but go back to the original statement.
Yeah saw and it’s still such a silly thing to say. Like is a genocide better because you keep it to yourself? Christ.
You do realize I’m talking geopolitics right? The comment I replied to said “BTW I don’t buy into the narrative that China is the better world dominator.” What China does within and next to its borders is literally not what we’re taking about.
You’re correct, but are getting downvoted by people who treat the whole topic like they’re supporting a sports team.
tell that to someone who lives in an EU country where corrupt politicians are building out surveillance systems with chinese tech, and bringing the country into other large chinese projects from even larger chinese loans, along with chinese battery factories that are polluting our environment!
to someone, like me.
a neighboring country is also neck deep in this shit
I mean that’s not what I’m talking about though, and in the first place does it really matter if the surveillance systems are Chinese or American/Israeli?
what matters here is that chinese influence initiated the project
They sure like waving their sticks an awful lot in the South China Sea and pissing off all their neighbours though. And in some cases outright hostile. The US needs to be strong to keep China at bay and the reverse needs to be a true, a weaker US will let China get even more belligerent and as someone who’s a neighbour of the Chinese, it’s not a good sight to see.
Oh yeah absolutely, but then again look at what the US does and has done in the Americas. It more than evens out I think, hence my focus on stuff they do away from home.