• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    9 days ago

    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.

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      8 days ago

      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.

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        8 days ago

        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.

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      8 days ago

      You’re correct, but are getting downvoted by people who treat the whole topic like they’re supporting a sports team.

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      8 days ago

      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

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        8 days ago

        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?

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          8 days ago

          does it really matter if the surveillance systems are Chinese or American/Israeli?

          what matters here is that chinese influence initiated the project