AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
That wasn't my point. I'm talking things like sanctions. The West freely and loves slapping sanctions on other countries under the guise of morals and ethics when it's really about self-serving interests. Is their some neutral body that decides what is moral and ethical in the world that the West is following? No. They unilaterally decide it for themselves because they drive the world economy. That's questionable in the future because now China is threatening their economic power over the world. The West is worried over supply chain issues like never before because the vast majority of the strategic supplies the West needs to run their economies exist in the Global South. China is outbidding the West for those resources by paying more than the West will. Who doesn't want to be paid more? China will have the power to gather up countries to sanction and punish the West like they do it now to everyone else. They don't like that especially because when they do it to others they're thinking first how much drunk with power they have over others and they can't do anything about. Now they see the shoe will be on the other foot and why they were doing it to others will now will be done to them and they don't like it one bit because whatever nefarious intentions they were aiming for when they were doing it, they now see the same thing being done to them. China will be able lead in punishment of the US for helping Israel in committing genocide... That's what they don't want to happen.I don't believe so. Because what the West does to the rest of the world, they do the same to their domestic population albeit in a lighter manner. What they are really afraid of is not being in control, and being subordinate to another power who does not share the same values as them, primarily because their dominance allows them an almost global free reign on wealth generation and hoarding via exploitation and corruption. So, any rival system that isn't their own is a source of anxiety and fear. The Chinese system has a potential to destroy the Western'. The real tragedy for humankind here would be if the Chinese are infiltrated and become Westernized (i.e. like Japan and South Korea).
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There is also a subconscious/hidden ethnocentric element at play which can be observed in the general population. Westerners (and even slightly Westernized folk) think that Western philosophy is the only correct philosophy. Their way of life, their way of thought formation, their perception is the only one that exists; and that this ["our way"] is universal, embedded biologically in every culture. So, if power corrupts in America, it will also corrupt everywhere on the globe; if two kings cannot rule a Kingdom at once in Europe, then two kings cannot rule a kingdom anywhere on earth (Ghori's have entered the chat); if Europeans at their peak were colonials, every culture at their peak will be colonial, etc. You could be infected by this influence even if you are anti-West.
