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China is all about efficiency.

Their dissenting citizen to organ farm pipeline can't be beat!

All right, you can play your little goal post game with yourself

Should have let the Brits keep it, I guess?

I’m basing mine on their treatment of Hong Kong

I'm basing my view on current and historical facts. Yours seems to be a more vibes-based analysis.

I don't think that this is point of the thread. China isn't looking to replace the US as the global hegemon. Australian mining companies also create ecological disasters abroad, but nobody confuses this with Aussie world domination.

Which was the whole point of the thread: it doesn't matter by which power you get exploited, China doesn't give a fuck about other countries either and they'll happily fuck up other countries' environments.

Yeah that is terrible. It does seem like a common occurrence though when it comes to industrial mining, no matter who runs the operation.

Maybe you forgot that they don't send it all over the world, unlike certain other countries.

Oh shit, I forgot that China doesn't have a military.

Economic coercion requires the threat of military force. When I hear the phrase "boot on the neck" I'm imagining a soldier's boot.

A river died

Just one example of their bad acting. No worse really than the western world has done, but certainly no better

Never said military actions. China has been trying to establish economic hegemony in Africa for a while via giant loans for infrastructure projects that the nations in question could never possibly repay. Of course, the terms of the loan establish that if the nation defaults, China immediately gains control over all assets built with the money.

https://www.bu.edu/gdp/2023/09/18/a-new-state-of-lending-chinese-loans-to-africa/ This has some fun charts about the phenomenon.

And Sri Lanka

Care to explain? I have a difficult time imagining Chinese military actions in Africa.

Africa would like a word.

Ignorance is bliss, innit

The boots are both made in China anyway. Might as well cut out the middle man!

I don't think China has any interest in putting a boot on the neck of the world.

i mean they essentially put an economic gun to our heads and forced it

This was China's plan for world domination.

It's crazy that a Russian asset US president can convince America's #1 ally of all time to support a dictatorship.

Yes. But carefully. And with eyes wide open.

It will go down as the most unforced error in history

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Hey! Dont forget racist, dishonest, and selfish.

"Sorry kids, but people are stupid."

Explain it in Chinese, so they're prepared for the future

Get involved and be part of the movement against it, so you can tell them you actively tried to fight it and didn't just sit idly by.

I cut all the hard parts of that out and had my nuts snipped

Apparently one or two people did, yes.:-|

It was always a given that China would eventually dethrone US as a global super power. I never expected US to basically hand it over to them.

They would be dumb if they didn’t do that. Did anyone expect something else?

Surely the world will be a better place if we take the US' boot off the neck of the human race and place a Chinese boot there!

How do i explain this to my kids and grand kids. What a mess

And we, Canada, should be bonding with China, the EU and many others.