US and allies should beat China in space race to assure rules-based order there: experts and lawmakers (www.scmp.com)

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[-] drktrts@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

What... If you think China supports it's citizens and cooperates with the international community any better than the United States, and doesn't have a colonialist agenda, you're either speaking in bad faith or just terribly ignorant. We can sit here all day with whataboutisms, and comparison, but the truth is China is no more suited and, AT LEAST, just as ill intentioned.

[-] intelshill@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

Is China shipping billions of dollars in weapons to Israel as they, in 3 months, have dwarfed Ukrainian civilian casualties over 2 years? No? Well...

Did China instigate a coup of Pakistan's democratically-elected leader? No?

Is China the only country voting against the Right to Food pursuant to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 25)? No?

Hm.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

If you think China supports it’s citizens

Even Atlanticists admit that China has brought ~800 million people out of poverty.

Mostly it’s people in imperialist/neocolonialist countries who think China is imperialist/neocolonialist. It’s not a popular opinion in Global South countries.

[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Are these the same global south countries that China is building things at prices they know they can’t pay back so that they can seize them later or the China that is currently trying to take over huge parts of the ocean that belong to others under international law?

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Typical projection. China is not charging the usury rates & terms that the IMF and World Bank famously do in order to put Global South countries into debt traps. And they’re not creating 800+ extraterritorial military bases to enforce them like the US has.