hey usa, china is building tons of high-speed rail. they're the leaders in decarbonizing their energy mix. they're building tons of housing to handle population growth. they're financing infrastructure projects in the global south. why not try beating them at all that?
no? just wars again? okay.
Chinese people own their homes too
Even with more property rights. If you own a house and you don't want to sell it when they want to build a new highway, they build the highway surrounding your house, instead of expropriating you like in western countries.
tbh living there in the middle of a highway would be hell
it is disappointing how despite how ahead china is in terms of public transit, they still build car-centric infrastructure like this. at least, unlike north america, shitty car-centric infrastructure is not all there is lol
I've never had to use the term 'Passive-Aggressive Infrastructure' before but I'm here for it and loving it
Fascinating as it may be, that's a pretty horrible picture.
Imagine living that house. It's a pretty stark demonstration of the state gets what it wants, one way or another.
It is absolutely maddening to see American pundits defend every dumbshit, ruinous, genocidal policy over the last twenty years by pointing at China and claiming, "We had to show them we were the boss".
From AI to A-bombs, there's nothing you can't get away with by insisting "China Bad! This will stop them!"
We are operating from a position of strength!
They can't admit the only reason has been "Money!"
And not even the country's, just that of a few old pedophiles trying to rape some life out of children in a vain attempt to feel youth again before the grave takes them
It's a very convenient go-to excuse. And as long as the American public keeps lapping it up, those in power will keep counting on it.
The US is basically a "this is good for bitcoin", but as a country.
Its slow, humiliating, public suicide is even more pathetic than great britain's.
I, for one, think it's funny.
I'd put money on China being able to pwn the USA with the click of a button. We know about salt typhoon, and there's been documented backdoors in IoT devices and some Unitree bots. Imagine all the things we don't know about. Especially regarding power generation and general aging infrastructure.
I think Americans should ban debate clubs. Clearly they're only teaching how to create mental convolutions instead of creating sound arguments.
Americans should consider doing mathematical convolution instead. Very important for functional analysis with deep connections to the Laplace, and thus Fourier, transforms.
Oh no, debate clubs are actually very good at teaching kids how to discern good information from bad, and how to make proper arguments with supporting evidence. Right wing media teaches gish gallop and never be wrong, it's these two ideas that have taken over discourse.
I will have to take your word on that. Got to admit my opinion is based on a limited set of people I had the displeasure of interacting with.
Unironically many debate clubs practice and teach this
I thing losing $400b will greatly help to put china in its place
China and Iran are allies.
If the US and China go to war Iran will close the strait to their enemies. And we’ve seen the US is impotent to that and overly reliant on oil.
I think China just has to deal with a first strike from the US and then wait for an impotent United States to fall apart and starve.
I think your last point is pretty accurate. The US side has done a bunch of war games for a Taiwan invasion situation. In these games, the US side barely wins. To me, that's evidence the US probably loses. All of the Chinese decision making is done by US military people that think like the US military. If the PLA acts differently, they could easily be in a better position. Also, the Chinese capabilities will be based on US intelligence. Unless the Pentagon knows everything about missile ranges, warhead sizes, magazine depth, aircraft speeds and ranges, etc, they won't be able to anticipate a capability they didn't know about.
Probably most importantly, China has a vast industrial base and would be much closer to the fighting. All they really have to do is use up the US missile stockpiles and shoot down a few planes (probably while they're just parked in Okinawa). Once the war becomes about who can manufacture more missiles and planes to replace losses, there's no way the US will be able to keep up. If it becomes a protracted war, the US loses by default.
Edit: also, I'm not so sure Iran would close the straight. But I don't think it would matter because part of the US plans involve closing the Malaca straight to starve the Chinese of oil. They'll do it themselves.
How can people be so delusional?
"When their salary depends on it" is a decent first answer.
Yeah giving away the weakness of all our equipments iranians hurt to china is such a huge deterrant bruv
Remember folks, the guy is a master of the deal
And as His Orangeness has said, Ghina is expensive.
LMAO
Love your instance name
