Further helping the Chinese? Come TF on and get real. When did America ever help China? In fact when did America help anyone? America got greedy and has sucked all of the possible profit they could from American industry, when they decided to outsource it.
It started off as raw materials and then became wholesale manufacturing and China quickly became very good at making all the things you felt you were too good to make and then became very good at the things you needed them to make and now they’re just all round very good at doing all the things that you stopped doing so a handful of executives could have a larger bonus.
Help the Chinese? You’re drowning in your own shit and demanding China save you like you’re doing them a favour. America, the UK, let’s just say, the West in general needs China more than China needs us and its because of greedy CEOs and politicians who only see things in the short term. The idea that you’re helping China is your propaganda, it’s not reality.
regul@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
What could it mean? What’s the “nightmare scenario” here? The US has had a significant trade deficit with China for decades.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
They get strong enough quick enough that they become geopolitically unstoppable. I don’t trust those guys to rule the world, or even have it sort of within reach.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
But you trust “Weapons of Mass Destruction” and “Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments” and “COINTELPRO” and “PRISM” US government?
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Actually, I agree. The US has had the opportunity to go rogue for decades, though, and so far has opted to ignore the outside world instead (with occasional forays to the desert or jungle to feel like a big man). That’s probably down to their political system.
regul@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Control it how? The US is as close as anyone has come to being a global hegemon and even then they can only do so much to nuclear states.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Yeah, the “sort of within reach” thing is more plausible. China in the role of 1970’s America still scares me. Hell, 1970’s America scares me, and they were to busy boomering to commit all that much to world domination.