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Comment by lenerdenator

5 hours ago

Ah, yes, the best way to react to increased authoritarianism in the US is to checks notes begin doing more business with a country that is the final word in authoritarianism.

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blahblaher  5 hours ago

the big difference is that China is not bombing anyone, and causing chaos to it's allies..

  • lenerdenator  5 hours ago

    > not bombing anyone

    Not that they wouldn't bomb Taiwan if they thought they could get away with it. The reason they can't, of course, is that doing so carries the risk of starting a thermonuclear war with the United States.

    > causing chaos to it's [sic] allies...

    Well, there's two ways to think about this.

    1) China doesn't really have allies. They've a long history of pissing off their neighborhood extending back centuries.

    2) They very much are causing chaos to allies, given that the Vietnamese went so far as to buy American military goods to help defend their portion of the South China Sea, which China sees as theirs.

    • westpfelia  4 hours ago

      > Not that they wouldn't bomb Taiwan if they thought they could get away with it.

      There is zero evidence of this. The last time China even engaged in a direct military conflict was the 1970s. Where as even before Trump America could have invaded almost any country on the planet. and it wouldnt have been to shocking.

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  • thesmtsolver2  1 hour ago

    Except

      1. Illegally occupying Tibet and cleansing the region 
  2. Occupying and cleansing several regions like Uyghur or Hong Kong
  3. Wars with neighbors like India and conflicts with all neighbors except North Korea
  4. indirectly arming Russia
  5. Taiwan

    If China had a fraction of American power, they would be making life miserable for a lot of countries.

danlugo92  2 hours ago

Grow up man, we need people to grow up and see the world for what it really is before we can fix it

You go against the government (for real) in ANY country you get a bullet, simple as that...

That is everywhere...

In USA, China, Russia, Paraguay, Laos, or wherever you go look...

  • thesmtsolver2  40 minutes ago

    False equivalence. Also funnily you left out Europe, why?

    For instance, you can mock Trump and question the US all day.

    You can’t do that in China. Even this website is banned in China.

  • lenerdenator  2 hours ago

    Ah, yes. That's how it ended for Joe Biden, right?

    "It's all the same", just isn't true. If it were, you wouldn't see any conflict.

vrganj  4 hours ago

The best way to handle it is indeed equidistance between the two other poles, positioning oneself as the weight that could tip dominance either way and having the other two trying to woo you.

Basically Yugoslavia's foreign policy during the Cold War, but on a much bigger scale.