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AssassinsMace said:

China isn't demanding countries to be like them in order to have friendly relations unlike what the US is demanding other countries to be "democratic" in order to have good relations with them. The West is worried autocracy is winning against democracy in the world. It's because they've shown how bad democracy is.

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vincent said:

Correction, the Hegemon has excellent relations with autocracies like Saudi Arabia, UAE and other shithole countries that are under its control.

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AssassinsMace said:

Well like during the Cold War, the US supported dictators when they knew the people would be against them. If oil-rich nations didn't have oil, the West would be pushing for democracy instead of thinking of the power of what controlling oil gets them.

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AssassinsMace said:

As to also the discussion going on in the "Biden's potential China policy thread", this is all a dog and pony show of fakeness that the West is notorious for. If they didn't need China or if they think China is as weak as they believe, they don't need to talk to China. Biden talks to everyone else before China... classic tactic of Kurt Campbell who worked for Obama also in thinking first China is worried of being left out is more important to the Chinese than anything else and therefore it will surrender. Same philosophy of how TPP will reign in China under Obama. The Pivot to Asia also had the same tactic. Was Obama successful?

The Western world order is dependent on the US being the strongest while everyone else including allies are sucking off its teet. Westerners need to have the highest living standards in the world in order to manipulate the world into doing it their way. Nearly all of the US's official allies couldn't maintain their high-end lifestyles without making money from exports. The 2008 Western financial crisis exposed how Europe was spending more money than they make hence all the borrowing defaulting. And while this was going on the citizens of their own countries were rioting on the streets because governments were going to make cuts that would drastically affect social programs to maintain the very lifestyles they were use to. They have to sell as much as they can to others. Non-Western allied countries aren't going to have it easier when sucking up to the same system. Yes China upsets the Western world order as charged because the US isn't the only market in town now. 60% per cent of global chip production was sold to China meaning China in some economic sectors was a larger market than the rest of the world combined. The list of things where China is going to be the largest market than rest of the world is only going to get larger. Countries have China as an alternative which at its optimum will be bigger than the US to sell to which is why they even dare to bring up China dividing Europe and the US.

What has changed with the world with Biden as President? Absolutely nothing. Are they going spin nothing they got from Russia as something against China like they're exactly doing? Is it going to get Russia to attack China militarily like the US seems to think it can do with every other country they hope to pit against China sacrificing everything for the US because the US is too chicken to do it themselves? The US isn't expecting Russia to win because if they were, it's Russian in control of China not the US. So they exactly expect everyone they want to use against China to sacrifice everything hoping to weaken China and at no cost to the US. Yeah and if China wins, the US's relations with China are not as in a bad position as the country they manipulated to go against China. Such cowardice and yet the US makes itself the most honest leader of the world... The US portrays China as aggressive when they're bombing smaller countries around the world they perceive as threats to their interests. The US and the West doesn't have the money it takes to buy-off the world against China. The West set themselves up when they created this system of dependency on them to keep countries loyal to them. Even Western countries not the US are vulnerable because they need money just like all the other countries they try to pull in will need. Is having money mean they will always have money? No, they spend money and they need more something they aren't even immune to. And the only way they can make that money is selling to China. That requires them to have good relations with China which goes against the US being in control. What does the West have when China will be bigger than anything that they have. Democracy when it's under siege at home? Other than that lie that they use to entice the world to their favor, they have nothing. China isn't demanding countries to be like them in order to have friendly relations unlike what the US is demanding other countries to be "democratic" in order to have good relations with them. The West is worried autocracy is winning against democracy in the world. It's because they've shown how bad democracy is. Instead of improving themselves to show how democracy is better, they find it an easier path to eliminate China so that there is no comparison for the world to see.

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Creating true security and prosperity for working people in the United States and China alike demands building a more equitable global system that prioritizes human needs over corporate greed and militarism. In the United States, handing billions more in taxpayer dollars to corporations and the Pentagon while inflaming bigotry will not serve these goals.

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voyager1 said:

"Comrade" Bernie Sanders understands the US game, and is rejecting it. Smart guy but ultimately too old to change anything. Good that he has been given a platform to express his views in such a magazine though

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AssassinsMace said:

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Some argue not ridiculing or vilifying the Alt-right, Proud Boys, incels. I'm all for it because what you get is people thinking there's nothing wrong and what they do is important and they don't change. You saw an example of it in Atlanta where six Asian women were murdered because they were sexual temptation he couldn't resist if he didn't kill them. Why didn't he just kill himself? Oh no!. It's because he was taught it's not his fault and it was his privilege to kill others to remove his perverted temptations. Like the Sheriff at the news conference said, "He was just having a bad day." It's funny because the judge that let off the murderers of Vincent Chin who was killed because they thought he was Japanese 40 years ago with just a $4000 fine said basically the same thing believing these murderers weren't bad men and their lives shouldn't be thrown away for something he believed wouldn't happen again with these men.

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Anti-China views​

Racial resentment seemed especially influential in white American

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In 2012, of the 3,196 white Americans surveyed in the

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, 28% believed that China posed a “major” military threat to the US, 53% saw China as a “minor” threat and 19% did not see China as a threat.

Racially resentful whites were 36 percentage points more likely to see China as a major threat than other white respondents, according to our analysis.

In 2016, 3,505 white Americans answered the same survey questions about China. A total of 45% saw China as a “major” threat to the US and 43% saw it as a “minor threat”; only 11% of whites believed China presented no threat to the US.

Again, racial attitudes strongly shaped these perceptions. Our analysis found that whites with racist attitudes were 20 percentage points more likely to consider China a major threat in 2016 than other whites.

While at first glance this might suggest that racial attitudes were less of a factor in 2016 than 2012, the lower percentage reflects the fact that a much higher percentage of Americans viewed

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This trend continued during the presidency of Donald Trump, who portrayed China as a great adversary, calling it a “

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