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• 14th_cylon@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  China would love so much to rule the world, that’s why it hasn’t entered any war in the past 40+ years

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred-Year_Marathon

  the global south are happy to enter the comparably advantageous economic deals

  are they happy? and are the deals advantageous? can you back up your claims? 😂

  As for “dictator”, look at the approval rates of Xi in China

  oh yes, the approval rating of a dictator in a dictatorship is very valid metric 😂. (hint hint: they are irrelevant even if they were not fixed. any kind of approval rating bears zero relevance to whether the country is a totalitarian state or not, or whether the country is a threat to its neighbours or not).

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  • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred-Year_Marathon

    So, no wars, got it. Just overtaking the US through soft power and economic prowess, lmao.

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• Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I agree until the last part. Democracies have more freedoms allowing for more accurate polling. There is also less fear of consequences for being open. Countries should be able to defend themselves, 5% is a step toward peace. The cold war never became hot because of the investment in defence.

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  • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The cold war never became hot

    Tell that to the millions of people the west murdered through bombing of Korea, Vietnam or Laos, the millions more murdered though US support of military dictators such as Suharto or Pinochet, or the millions who died through the de-stabilization of their countries such as Mosaddeq’s Iran, Guatemala or the outright invasion of Iraq. Ask those people what they think of the west’s military expenses over the past century.

    Democracies have more freedoms allowing for more accurate polling. There is also less fear of consequences for being open

    Literally two days ago Mamdani won the mayoral elections against all polls, polls in the west are heavily manipulated. And literally last week a man was denied entry in the country due to having a picture of bald Vance. I happen to be Spanish, and in our super-democratic state we have literal political prisoners who had to free the country such as Carles Puigdemont due to political persecution and risking their lives in jail. The west is NOT more democratic than China at this point, and the trend is towards openness in China and towards fascism in the west.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The trend is toward openness in China? Just off the top of my head didnt Xi consolidate more power over the last 12 months and stop issuing economic statistics as a resukt of their trend?

      I am not American, they are a shit hole country, they have never been much more but the veneer is wiped off now.

      Those proxy wars are the example of it not getting hot. Russia and the US had so much military power no one risked direct attacks.

      I do not support the US, Israel or any such shite but dont tell half a story and sum up with china is opening up.

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      • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        stop issuing economic statistics

        Then what’s this?. I literally don’t know what you’re talking about.

        The trend is toward openness in China?

        Yes. China is progressively opening up, allowing things such as IShowSpeed to do livestreams of the country wherever he wants and granting him honorary visas, and spreading the contact of Chinese people with westerners through for example XiaoHongShu (RedNote) or TikTok, which is why the US wants to ban access to these apps. I’m not a US citizen either, I’m European, and the EU itself closed access to Russian media some months after the war started. You may or may not think that this is justified, but it’s quite literally the definition of “closing up”, and China is engaging in exactly the opposite.

        Those proxy wars are the example of it not getting hot

        I beg you tell the same to a Ukrainian or to a Vietnamese.

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