• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      1824 days ago

      It’s basically playing out exactly the same way as Biden’s attempt to isolate Russia. The whole history repeating as a farce thing in action.

              • Cowbee [he/they]
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                1524 days ago

                China isn’t a dictatorship. It’s not a perfect utopian wonderland, but it’s certainly much better than the US, both for its people and other countries. China would absolutely be preferable.

              • djsoren19
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                424 days ago

                The issue is that somebody kinda has to fill the vacuum if we want to have literally any hope at surviving our rapidly oncoming self-created climate disaster. I don’t exactly love the PRC either, but you have to admit that right now, they are the ones best positioned to find and implement a technological solution to our crisis. It’s certainly not going to be the U.S., Europe is going to have it’s hands full trying to deal with Russia, do you think there’s any other power strong enough or better than China even left?

                If my options are the Chinese model, or the extinction of the human race, then I’ll choose the PRC.

                • Cowbee [he/they]
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                  924 days ago

                  To add, Europe is generally a shadow of its former dominance, it doesn’t have the ground to stand on its own without capitulating to a greater power. Either they continue to be vassalized by the US, they reach reconciliation with Russia (who currently does have the resources like oil and the industrialization to fulfill Western Europe’s needs), or a pivot to China.

                  We can see this in how quickly the EU folded to Trump’s tariffs, while also opening dialogue with the PRC. They are picking which of those two to really side with, even though they would prefer to keep it balanced, the US will not allow that.

              • @humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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                324 days ago

                Right way to measure governments is oligarchist corruption. All CIA approved democracies fail at this, and so not in the slightest a beneficial model. Trade shouldn’t be viewed as bad. Corruption and subjugation are bad, and trade deals should be looked at only under that framework.

    • Cowbee [he/they]
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      24 days ago

      Neither was Cuba or the DPRK, they have already been sanctioned. The tariffs are (supposedly) for countries the US actually does trade with.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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          924 days ago

          The west put all the sanctions they could think of on Russia for the past three years. I ask you once again, what you think there’s left to tariff?