Let's hope China are benevolent world superpower, looks like they will win the AI race now with Dems grinding the US build out to a halt.
Don't hold your breath: their human rights record is already in the dumps (see Uyghurs and Tibetans), and they seem to have no problem having all kinda of territorial ambitions (see Taiwan, South China Sea, India and Bhutan, etc).
Add in the authoritarianism and corruption, and I'm pretty sure you have a recipe for a country you absolutely DO NOT want in a position of global power.
As I say, I don't want to dismiss what China is doing as "well the US are doing it too", it's just worth pointing out if that's a red line for a global power
Deliberately or not, your comment is an example of whataboutism [0]
All due respect, I literally said that, twice. I suppose you could still call it whataboutism by technicality, but it doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
My point was that replacing a benevolent superpower with one that is not is quite a different situation than a "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" one, and I was just pointing out that this is the latter, not the former.
> My point was that replacing a benevolent superpower with one that is not
I didn't get that from your comment; it rather came across as a laundry list for why the US is not benevolent.
I think it largely does. Look at the stated purpose of it in the wikipedia article you linked:
> It is an informal fallacy that the accused party uses to avoid accountability—whether attempting to distract by shifting the conversation's focus away from their behaviour or attempting to justify themselves by pointing to the similar behaviour
Pointing out that China is still responsible for its actions and the US doing it too doesn't justify them makes it whataboutism without a purpose. Like I say, whataboutism by technicality, rather than as a counter-argument.
> I didn't get that from your comment; it rather came across as a laundry list for why the US is not benevolent.
I think it can be quite easily inferred. We don't want China as a superpower because of X. The US is a superpower. The US also does X. Therefore...
Again, I said this at the end:
> it's just worth pointing out if that's a red line for a global power
1. Reeducating/integrating restive minorities instead of actually geocoding them and winning their war on terror without droning all the school children. Nobel Peace prize stuff.
2. Inheriting all border disputes from ROC, then settling 11/13 land, essentially all with more concessions. Even 5 way SCS, PRC first to concede 11 dash down to9 dash. AKA not only did PRC not initiatate any disputes, they settled majority vs reasonable parties and now manages rest vs frankly petulant chidren, i.e. India (bhutan who can't settle because India) and most SCS claimants... TLDR autistic democracies who demand 100% instead of some sort of split - aka utterly retarded position given to losers of wars. This the kind of absurd idiocy PRC magnanimity gracefully handling.
3. We tried flipflop US democracy that still manage to bomb kids under every administration almost every year. I'm sure pretty sure there are better recipes to try.
TLDR: Once you put down the the libtard koolaid, PRC should be getting literally every Nobel Peace prize for how benevolent they've been.
There are many accounts regarding of and from the Uyghurs which directly contradict this. Also see any of the numerous knife attacks (many targeting school children [0]).
> 2. Inheriting all border disputes from ROC then settling 11/13 land, essentially all with more concessions
It would be news to many of China's neighbours that their border (and sea) disputes are settled [1].
> 3. We tried flipflop US democracy that still manage to bomb kids under every administration almost every year. I'm sure pretty sure there are better recipes to try.
America notoriously has a problem with school shootings, not bombings.
> TLDR: Once you put down the the libtard koolaid, PRC should be getting literally every Nobel Peace prize for how benevolent they've been.
Antipathy towards China goes across the political spectrum - if anything, it's more associated with conservative hawks.
If you disagree with arguments that China is the antithesis of a benevolent super-power, that is your right. But the manner of your comment is not conducive to a productive discussion in this regard.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_attacks_in_Chin... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_of_China