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[–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Maybe someone still believing in the superiority of the west, which clearly we don’t have a monopoly on anymore, China has caught up, exactly as Japan and Korea have done before China.

I genuinely is curious to see the exact same propaganda rolled out against China that Americans deployed against the other Eastern Rim industrial states. India is, similarly, getting a ton of this treatment.

The big difference between China and India/Japan/Korea is the failure of the Chinese government to placidly ingest western neoliberal economic policy and stagnate their economies for a decade as a result.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Absolutely, China being communist makes them the enemy.
    But to be fair, capitalism is also a declared enemy to communist countries.
    Both are equally wrong.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    capitalism is also a declared enemy to communist countries

    Colonialism tends to be the explicit professed enemy. Communism, as a practical economic policy, revolves around securing domestic resources for the benefit of the local public. China's managed this phenomenally.

    What Chinese policymakers object to is extraction of Chinese surplus at a loss. And foreign capitalists hate this, because it cuts into their profits.

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