(Personally I'm biased. The batshit insane Christian nationalists in America scare me more than the Chinese.
There's a ideological rift between Western Europe and the US that few people truly appreciate. The things Republicans say are just not normal).
In the cold war we were all saved by de-escalation and SALT. The US going on record that they want to strangle the Chinese leads to inevitable conflict.
Every non-Chinese (and many Chinese, too) is on the receiving end of the New Chinese Man crazies. The Christian crazies are mostly isolationists - I am not in the US so I don't care much.
It's an internal US issue that I can't do anything and doesn't affect me - even if I cared, there's not much I could do, and I don't think it's something I should meddle in.
I am all for cooperation in solving common problems.
There are some batshit crazy people here. Think mass shootings in walmarts, targets and the occasional black church every now and again. Those people get into power, they won't be satisfied with just walmart shootings. Fairly certain they'd try to take down all the "enemies of freedom". Which would be, pretty much, anyone they say is an "enemy of freedom". MidEasterners, Jews, Asians, South Americans, anyone in Europe to the left of themselves ideologically. Pretty much everyone.
Christian nationalists represent an existential level threat not only to the US, but everyone on the planet. If they come to power, the best outcome would be Russia and the US go at it and obliterate each other. Ridding the rest of the globe of both centers of foolishness.
There's a massive demographic increase in single person households.
If you're single you have to meet people you can't just retreat into your suburbia castle with your family.
Architecture and city planning takes time to catch up to this new society.
I see this in my own country. Amsterdam is expensive why not go to the countryside? Where it that easy.
Restaurants, clubs, drug dealers, ordering your coffee at Starbucks in English not Dutch- all the things you want as a high rising young urban professional is in the city. So if you actually want to attract this talent you cough up the ridiculous amount of money for the privilege of the city.
It's nice to be near other immigrants too. It's harder to get to know people with entrenched friend networks, and the Dutch aren't known for being easy to befriend.
Completely incorrect. The Mongol social structure did that without religion. Like most nomadic peoples, inheritance rules split the ownership amongst a leader’s sons, fairly equally. This is because they had people and herds, not land (hence, nomads), so it was the most sensible way of doing it.
This, mixed with the fact that Russia and the Middle East are thousands of miles away from the Mongolian and Chinese capitals made it inevitable that a leader on one side of the empire would ignore their overlord on the other side. Thus, the empire would fracture quickly (and pretty much did as soon as the family ties to Genghis Khan were loose enough).
If memory serves there was a plan to invade the Azores in WW2 which would have been immensely ironic.
After WW2 the US was gracefully handed over a few islands to serve as aircraft bases. The Chinese still lack such soft power so they have to make their own islands.
In the cold war we were all saved by de-escalation and SALT. The US going on record that they want to strangle the Chinese leads to inevitable conflict.
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