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Who cares about a few Uygurs, right? Or the Chinese Seas. Or Tibet and Taiwan. You can say what you want, but China is not a silver lining.

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Would you rather live next to a domestic abuser or a serial killer? That's the math a lot of countries are doing right now. It's hard for Americans to understand because they've never been invaded or even credibly threatened with invasion. (And yes, the US does plenty of domestic abuse too.)

Who cares about undocumented immigrants, or Venezuela, or Iran, or Iraq, or Afganistan, or Iraq a second time, or putting Iran into it's current situation by overthrowing a democratically elected government in the 1950s, or Hawaii, or the Virgin Islands, Indigenous people of North America etc etc.

Or Cuba…

Another brilliant humanitarian crisis caused entirely by the U.S. for no good reason at all.

I'm not arguing the USA is a good guy. Just that that doesn't make China any better.

China cannot be compared to the two warmongers, the US and Russia, in any dimension.

Tibetans, uyghurs, etc? Factories full of North Korean workers under the watchful eye of their overlords, modern slavery even of your own people.

As a Kiwi I look at the US, Russia, China, etc as the same. Even the UK (where I now live) is a scarier place than back home.

That's fair, because you're in a Western media environment, and the fact that you can see them as the same already proves my point.

How is the US better?

To be brutally honest here: no. Nobody cares.

What people want is stability. Not endless fucking wars.

People in my country don't give a shit about Moses-Jesus. They do care about how much their fuel costs.

>What people want is stability. Not endless fucking wars.

this of course true for Tibet and Taiwan, too -- you just don't care because that's not where you live.

...and with that attitude globally, we get endless war.

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