• Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    hey usa, china is building tons of high-speed rail. they’re the leaders in decarbonizing their energy mix. they’re building tons of housing to handle population growth. they’re financing infrastructure projects in the global south. why not try beating them at all that?

    no? just wars again? okay.

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    I think Americans should ban debate clubs. Clearly they’re only teaching how to create mental convolutions instead of creating sound arguments.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    It is absolutely maddening to see American pundits defend every dumbshit, ruinous, genocidal policy over the last twenty years by pointing at China and claiming, “We had to show them we were the boss”.

    From AI to A-bombs, there’s nothing you can’t get away with by insisting “China Bad! This will stop them!”

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    I’d put money on China being able to pwn the USA with the click of a button. We know about salt typhoon, and there’s been documented backdoors in IoT devices and some Unitree bots. Imagine all the things we don’t know about. Especially regarding power generation and general aging infrastructure.

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Literally the equivalent of a homeless libertarian laughing at well to do, middle class Chinese people because he thinks he’s better off

    demonstrating that the US is willing

    Yes, because America is famous for the ambiguity around whether or not we’d go to war with global South nations

    and able

    No

    In that sense, it was already won

    The government can behave like a rabid dog, but China would Old Yeller America

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    China and Iran are allies.

    If the US and China go to war Iran will close the strait to their enemies. And we’ve seen the US is impotent to that and overly reliant on oil.

    I think China just has to deal with a first strike from the US and then wait for an impotent United States to fall apart and starve.

    • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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      Americans famously can’t hold more than one idea at time, if Trump shit his pants tomorrow the entire investigation of Epstein is gone.

      Please president, hold your shit!!!

  • FunkyCheese@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Show china youre the boss by taking hong kong back and making it independent

    And protecting them and taiwan