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I'd be happy with a world without a white supremacist hegemonic power, but I don't think if China were to be the worlds only superpower we'd live in a better world.
Currently the world's superpowers are committing a second Holocaust in Gaza. It's possible that 500,000 are dead (population was 2.1m before genocide began, Trump said there's 1.6m in Gaza when negotiating with Israel). The EU is just as complicit in this genocide as the US. That's just what's happening now, one of many American atrocities.
With that in mind: what has China ever done in history to make you so much more scared of them?
I don't disagree that EU and US do terrible things across all over the world. Palestinian genocide is a good example of why the world would be better off if it isn't ruled by either the US or the EU. But these horrible things will continue to happen without one, two or three global superpower. It's not like UN is really able to make a difference. The reason I'm more scared for China is not of how they have treated the people in other countries, but how they treat their own people. Do you have an example of how China helped a nation or people in a way that is western countries haven't?
You should look into the Belt and Road Initiative, which has been funding critical infrastructure in Asia and Africa for years now. Pretty recently, China forgave some billions of debt owed to them by African countries. Compare that to how the US and EU handle debt, where they only offer "relief" they require impoverished countries to cut social services and sell off mineral and agricultural rights. China wants international partners, US and EU want colonies.
funding? you must mean debt-trapping.
can't wait to hear about how the London School of Economics and Johns Hopkins University are full of communists
or does it only become communist when LSE gets quoted here you loser cracker
Actually, citing sources is Communist.
In fact, even science itself is communism!
linky plz
it's there on the last line? unless you mean a link to something else?
I've never read a comment to its conclusion
Dang, dude. They really pulled you in, huh? Just rattling off US State Department headlines as comments.
How is forgiving debt, debt-trapping? Hell, most of the Belt and Road doesn't even tie their economy specifically to China, as it is funded by collateralized dollar denominated US debt that China owns. If anything, it is the US attempting to debt trap China (if someone owes you ten dollars that's their problem, if someone owes you a million dollars that is a you problem) and China sharing the burden with other countries, in order to increase overall production and create a shared world economy, you know that thing that you liberals always claim to be a big ol' fan of.
The belt and road initiative is the US dept-trapping China? Wow, you're brainwashed.
Learn to read. What I said was that if you are so concerned with debt-trapping, then the U.S. is a far larger culprit with much larger abilities to do so. If anything, the belt and road alleviates U.S. attempts to debt-trap China.
lol you have the depth of a toy that says a thought-terminating cliché every time its string is pulled
from https://redsails.org/brainwashing/
All government spending that's backed by USD is effectively a debt trap that leads back to the US. You could join the Hexbear Super-Imperialism reading group to learn more, because you live in a free country that allows people to write and publish that kind of text (nobody tell them where the edition we're reading was published)
Did you read the part about how they erased billions of debt owed to China?
What do you consider the IMF and World Bank?
Your brain is straight up drowning in western capitalist propaganda lmao
Like we know you don't have a deep understanding of any of this yet you just spit out the company line every time
I think you don't even know what a debt trap is. It is certainly not the practice of forgiving debt, renegotiating debt plans, or even just eventually taking the assets provided when a country or other debtor defaults.
a thought terminating cliché for every occasion