the majority of people in the west, the US especially, thinks all china does is make cheap walmart crap. it's perfectly fine to say horrible, racist things about the chinese. nobody seems to care.
what's really happening is the chinese government runs the show and facilitates the dumping of cheap stuff into the west to manage expectations/anxiety about their rise, and to fund the real manufacturing and mineral extraction empire. if your competition doesn't take you seriously, that's a net asset, not a liability.
well sure, you can falsify my statement by simply not classifying anything as racism. i think the gleeful enthusiasm shown by people relentlessly china-bashing is telling, especially since they seem to do it all the time, as if they've found a loophole to freely express their hatred.
if nothing else it's a great little vehicle for racists to hop onto guilt-free.
This is a good point and reading it gave me the shivers. Let's not forget that for most of Civilized human existence, China has been the world's foremost economic and cultural power (except perhaps the Roman Empire). Chinese leaders are pretty well aware of that and yearn to put modern China back in its original place. And unlike the US, they don't have to deal with meddlesome democratic system in their march to economic and military supremacy.
the majority of people in the west, the US especially, thinks all china does is make cheap walmart crap. it's perfectly fine to say horrible, racist things about the chinese. nobody seems to care.
what's really happening is the chinese government runs the show and facilitates the dumping of cheap stuff into the west to manage expectations/anxiety about their rise, and to fund the real manufacturing and mineral extraction empire. if your competition doesn't take you seriously, that's a net asset, not a liability.
"All warfare is based on deception."