The guy I replied to said China is a "full-blown superpower."
Or the American people roll over if they're given their bread and circus. Either way, I wouldn't give them the space to make a comeback. I have absolutely no qualms with stomping on an adversary when they are down.
And I stand by that. Superpower status isn't something that you can declare for yourself. What we all remember is that the US and China went head to head in the great Tarriff War of 2025, and that it's the US that ended up blinking.
Okay. Can China meaningfully impose or defend its interests outside its periphery? Let's start with something simple, like getting the Philippines to remove the Typhon missiles aimed at the mainland.
In reality, the per capita murder rate in the US is 4 times of that in China. China's economy is probably 50% larger than America's, not the other way around. Huang has the audacity to gaslight his audience the way he does because he knows that the readers of the New York Times are a bunch of brainwashed ignoramuses who may well believe him.
There is plenty of circus already but pretty much no bread.
And given what they did to us in the Opium Wars when we did nothing to them aswell as being the reason why Japan denies Nanking aswell as Unit 731 I can safely say they owe us blood debt along with Europe especially Britian.