I get what you're saying,I would even say that China is acheiving this without wars, unlike the west.
But, they are not very good to their own people and they are extremely distrustful of foreigners. Not just westerners but even in africa they've been caught acting with malicious intentions(the last example I read was how they backdoored the African Union's IT systems). Very hard to trust someone who trusts no one.
The primary fear should be wars and global instability instead of who gets to wear the #1 badge. It has not even been a century since WW2,the current chinese regime is operating as a response to WW2 and "running a marathon,not a sprint" to beat the west and russia. China dominating the west would usher in Cold War 2.0(or has it already,pentagon papers and all) except with higher stakes,in the end military dominance matters as much as economic.
> they are extremely distrustful of foreigners. Not just westerners but even in africa they've been caught acting with malicious intentions(the last example I read was how they backdoored the African Union's IT systems). Very hard to trust someone who trusts no one.
You should checkout what the DHS, TSA and NSA have been up to...
I understand what you're getting at, but there's hypocrisy enough to go around on all sides. In my opinion, a remark made below brought out a very salient point that explains everything that is going on here in a far less hypocritical manner:
>The US/EU will try to maintain their power because to do so is RATIONAL.
What you're getting at, I think, is true. ie - The US/EU are hypocritical. I could respond with, "Well, CHINA is hypocritical." But that wouldn't get us anywhere. The person who commented on nations acting in rational fashions made a comment that actually gets us somewhere.
No, there are no "good guys" here, just a lot of people acting rationally. When looked at in that fashion, the propaganda from both sides is completely understandable.
Also, a lot of it is true.
For instance, you didn't say that China WAS worthy of trust because x, or y, or z.
You said that the US is NOT worthy of trust because x, and y, and z. All likely true, but that doesn't make China any more of a friend to the world than is the US.
What fraction of convicted people do you think are innocent in the US? Although US prisons are not ethnically balanced, neither is the crime rate for various reasons including poverty. The subtext of the Chinese camp thing is that we don't think those people deserve to be there. If they were all serial killers then we'd be saying, "let China decide how to punish their own criminals," but from the start we don't agree with what gets you put in a camp in China.
> Although US prisons are not ethnically balanced, neither is the crime rate for various reasons including poverty.
About 1/4 of prisoners are there because of drugs[1]. Because of the US's punitive drug laws many of these are not dealers but users. In addition, African Americans are much more likely to get "stop and frisked" and get caught with drugs even where whites possess drugs more often[2]. They're also more likely to be arrested for drug offences[2]:
> 16% of those who sold drugs were black, but 49% of those arrested for doing so were black
The disparity in prison population cannot be explained away by crime rate or poverty demographics. It's the result of selective enforcement and preferential treatment for one group over another.
A lot of online attacks on America use our freedoms against us, our free press, our freedom to protest and cause political divisions. Maybe the Chinese are right that "harmony" will make them stronger than our freedoms, but I sure hope not.
But, they are not very good to their own people and they are extremely distrustful of foreigners. Not just westerners but even in africa they've been caught acting with malicious intentions(the last example I read was how they backdoored the African Union's IT systems). Very hard to trust someone who trusts no one.
The primary fear should be wars and global instability instead of who gets to wear the #1 badge. It has not even been a century since WW2,the current chinese regime is operating as a response to WW2 and "running a marathon,not a sprint" to beat the west and russia. China dominating the west would usher in Cold War 2.0(or has it already,pentagon papers and all) except with higher stakes,in the end military dominance matters as much as economic.