I admit I’m fuzzy on how it all went down, exactly, but I was indeed thinking of the opium stuff when I wrote that. And all the shifty dealings with natives here, when we bothered to treat them as actual people worthy of relations.
I admit I’m fuzzy on how it all went down, exactly, but I was indeed thinking of the opium stuff when I wrote that. And all the shifty dealings with natives here, when we bothered to treat them as actual people worthy of relations.
regul@lemm.ee 4 months ago
The Opium Wars involved armed conflict on Chinese soil. That’s the sort of thing nukes deter.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Yes, if that specific bit happened to a nuclear nation, it would be the end of the world as we know it.
Do you think a world dominated by autocracies again would be fine, basically?
regul@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I’m asking you what you think would be different if China was the largest global superpower?
If this is some great fear we’re all supposed to have to the point that we’ll forestall making progress on decarbonizing then it should be easy to clearly articulate what we’re afraid of happening.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
I’ve tried to answer, but it’s tough because projecting geopolitics forward is always speculative. Why don’t you go now? Do you think democracy would be safe in that scenario? Is that important, in your opinion?