The whole world today is becoming so childish that it makes people wonder what the f?ck is wrong with human beings? Man would take 3 jobs if that was what it took to bring enough food to the table. Women would do whatever it takes so that her children are safeguarded. So Clinton was absolutely right: it is economy, stupid!
By world, you mostly mean the West in this case. I read an article on this topic recently, it focused on America, but can apply to the world as well since America is the cultural leader of the West (although less socialist in terms of economics and government policy). Basically the Vietnam war pushed college students into the forefront of the Democratic Party (and therefore left wing) of the US. Anti-war agenda became the top priority, and college students (and educated people) replaced the working class and labour unions as the leadership. These students weren't from poor backgrounds, so economic policies took a backseat to causes du jour (ie. nuclear disarmament, feminism, race issues, climate, gender policies). So now basically those things have become human rights over having food on the table.
Its simple. Its good old fashioned racism. The West cannot accept China as an equal because it is just not like them. It is communist, and it is not white. Not suitable in their eyes to be on their level. A number of Asian nations like Japan, SK, and India cannot accept China as an equal or superior. A number people in Taiwan, HK, Singapore and Malaysia cannot accept that mainland China had risen above them. China was supposed to be beneath them. They were supposed to be second to the white people, not second to the Chinese. China was supposed to be the backwater communist curiosity for exploitation by everyone above it in perpetuity. How dare China rises above its designated place in this rules based order of the world? How dare China outperforms the first world in almost all fields of development? How dare China invests in Italy? It was supposed to be the other way round.
Its these people who perceived themselves as superior to the Chinese that are kicking and screaming against this new reality that China can rival the West. That is why we see all this trolling and childishness. Doesn't matter what China had achieved. In their minds, China is always a communist oppressive backwater hellhole with nukes. The Chinese people to them are always uncouth red guard peasants who can only steal Western technology to progress. They are going through the 5 stages of grief, and are stuck on denial or anger. I doubt that most would ever move on, and would eventually descend into insanity.
It is not just simply racism, though it would be silly to pretend it doesn't play a role, especially the stealing technology part. Western legal theory puts a lot of emphasis on individual and political rights rather than actual tangible things. Voting, speaking out against the government, etc. The socialist/communist model is trying to build up a certain kind of society, so economic/tangible benefits are more important (food, housing, transportation, etc.). Why is the LA subway (not including tramways) barely bigger than the Urumqi metro despite being a much larger and economically more important city? Because these things don't fit into the western model of development, they are simply disregarded. USSR (and PRC) made great strides in female participation in things like science and technology fields, but it is barely acknowledged by the bulk of the western world. USSR built things like district heating which today is commonly touted as something that can combat climate change due to energy efficiency, but derided in the 90's as communist centralized bureaucracy.
This monstrosity is hated by its neighbors, but it is an essential element of Russian life: The pipes are the tip of a vast subterranean network that delivers heavily subsidized heat to every home in Moscow for just a few dollars a month.
They also are a monument to waste, inefficiency and centralization that illustrates how far the New Russia must travel to build a market-based economy.
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