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I think it's been evident for a long time to everyone here that the quality of western media reporting on China isn't fit to be used as toilet power. Western media on China serves to reinforce and pander to pre-existing biases and prejudices than any capacity to inform and educate. Those same biases and prejudices are then further reflected in the views expressed online in threads and forums and given far too much weight when they should be given none. The western media picks up on these ignorant and misinformed opinions and writes articles to pander to them. So continues the feedback loop of western media on China.
The trouble is, it's difficult to go against your cultural nature. The average Chinese person isn't as intolerant as the average American, and so don't see why China needs to "dominate". That's why you don't see Chinese politicians, intellectuals, or social media voices calling for China to impose its values on the world. Only Americans do that on a regular basis.
For the same reason, crusader nations can mobilize their populations in wars of aggression much easier. Even Russia is better than China at this because it has that tradition of Christian conversion. It's why a small island kingdom like Britain colonized most of the world, while the Ming Dynasty scrapped its treasure fleet, and China didn't even bother to colonize Taiwan until the Dutch established a foot hold there.
Historically, when China expanded, it was for economic and geopolitical reasons - pacifying a region that repeatedly threatens Chinese lands, or taking over a region with vital trade routes or productive farmers who were similar enough to Chinese that they could be taxed. Chinese have always had a "live and let live" attitude, in this respect - the Confucian scholars of old divided the world between the civilized Chinese and the barbarians, and indicated that should the barbarians want to join the Chinese, great; but if they don't, whatever. By contrast, if you look at the ideology of the crusader nations, it's almost always a variation of "all heathens must be converted or killed"; which today translates into "all nations that aren't democratic must be destroyed."
It's hard for Chinese to wrap their minds around such an intolerant, genocidal culture, especially when they've gotten used to decades of the US essentially putting money above all else, because greed became the new Western religion.
But these days, the West is increasingly turning back to its old ways. You can see it in the new generation of Western citizens and leaders who are more and more intolerant of opposing cultures and views. This isn't a new development; rather it's the way they've been for thousands of years - it's the last twenty years that were the exception.
Hopefully central policy making will be augmented by AI in the future... its all data analysis... no need for Mao/Xi "personality" or "culture", just AI will help make the best choices based on the available information... take the human flaws out of the equation
Well, we here in Asia known it as fact.
what surprising are the people in the Collective West, they're bewildered...lol In a way the western msm narrative are forcing people to have a rethink. I hope @Loveleenkris is still around, I just want to tell her that being Chinese is beautiful.
Even Reuters is writing this. Turns out Lithuania and Ukraine is not an alternative to the EU and China. And basing everything on finance and education, and killing the industry was a bad idea.
The American official is saying American military might is necessary to promote American values.
Does he even realize what he is saying, and what that message is to the developing world?
When China helped Laos build that high speed rail, a lot of not exploded bombs from the Vietnam War had to be taken care of by the Chinese side. That is military might and that is values?
What about Latin America? In the past, the leader would die in a plane crash. And those coups. That is military might and that is values?
The Middle East, always the same old story of some senseless war somewhere, and all using US made weapons. That is military might and that is values?
Apparently the Americans have several bases in Africa currently. Who knows what they are doing. That is military might and that is values?
I got a different opinion than other people.
The competition between China and the United States is real.
The competition between China and the United States in the non-Western world, that is over. The United States can never regain its former statue and luster when compared to China.
The best part is, the Americans don't even know it.
Some posters in this forum don't even know it. It is a very international forum too, heh!
Key stories are trade and tech. A little bit of the military too.
Look at the trade volume. Look at the story of Huawei and how they expand in those regions in the world mentioned above. Look at the kind of tech China sells to those regions.
The Americans think they can actually with this?
It's over and they don't even know it.
All they can do is go on a stage and declare how great their military is. And it is coming to promote their values.
As a self-assigned busybody in this matter, I have to raise some question.
If I understand what is being suggested here, then I would voice disapproval.
This will certainly kill our brother ansy1968. He may go with a smile on his face, but that is going too far, even for him, I suppose.
Someone in China should just invent a turkey baster and clone ansy1968 DNA.
They can call that product DNA-68, it would have a sort of nostalgic Vietnam War era sort of feel.
The more Gordon Chang says China will collapse, the more the UK actually will lmao