Yeah that’s the most worrying part. The good news is that there is still a lot Western of business interest tied up in China. I can’t see any war happening while that’s the case. Meanwhile, it seems like the hopes of moving things over to India might be dashed as civil unrest continues to escalate there.

My hope is that US will find itself increasingly isolated going forward and its domestic problems are going to preclude their ability to put up any sort of coordinated attack on China. Climate change might actually end up being the final nail in the coffin for US.

The fires last year and the Texas cold snap are examples of this, and it’s only going to get worse going forward. US infrastructure is long past its life expectancy, and it simply might not be able to keep up with the destruction caused by extreme weather events. I just saw yesterday that we may see a very rapid climate change as the gulf stream peters out. This would have a huge impact on US infrastructure.

Yeah its not like The US has protests every summer where police just murder people.

Or like the US still has slavery in prisons.

The US definitely doesn’t have any sort of shitty credit scoring system controlled by private corporations or anything.

The US is a bastion of workers rights, right? why else do you think police unions are so strong?

The US state dept definitely isn’t projecting or anything.

I mean here’s the footage that was produced by CPC about the Tienanmen Square and shown in China.

Also, whatever human rights abuses may happen in China these certainly don’t even begin to compare to the atrocities US is responsible for. We can start with the systemic racism and the fact that US keeps 20% of world’s prison population largely consisting of minorities using them as slave labor. The list of atrocities at home and abroad is simply staggering.

I’m also not sure why people think that social credit is somehow unique to China given that credit scores exist in the west. At least Chinese version of social credit is used to apply pressure on the rich while western social credit is used to oppress the poor.

When it comes to worker rights and overall democracy, China is far ahead of US in those departments.

• Is China a democracy?
• Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.
• In contrast to low US political approval ratings, 96% of Chinese are satisfied with the national government (Edelmans 2016). World Values Surveys says that 83% think the country is run for their benefit rather than for the benefit of special groups. A Harvard research center study of long-term public opinion survey finds that > 95% of Chinese citizens approved their government. How is this possible in a one-party state? (TED talk by Eric X Li)
• How does China’s political system work?
• How are Chinese leaders elected / chosen? How meristocratic is the system? How do elections differ from those in western bourgeois democracies?
• Who runs China? Makeup of the national people’s congress.
• US policy-makers are misjudging popular support China’s Government.
• The American dream is alive… in China.
• China more democratic than US

Human rights watch is a US org that’s pushed for every single coup in latin america the US has tried. https://thegrayzone.com/2020/04/08/billionaire-human-rights-watch-sanctions-nicaragua-venezuela/

America isn’t a brutal authoritarian regime?

>says there’s more to it than propaganda

>proceeds to cite propaganda

Okay then