• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      Not a dude, and the US got along much better with China, until around 2019 when the wars in the Middle East were winding down and the US needed a new justification for defense contracts, and when it needed to shift blame for botching COVID. That’s when all of a sudden everyone started hating China for no other reason than the news said to.

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        4 months ago

        I would say the US got along better with China until American citizens started to get freaked out that there was another country that was becoming a bigger economic and military power than they were.

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        4 months ago

        Uhhhh sure let’s go with that and ignore the growing abuse of sweat shops or the muslims China abuses or the bullshit happening in the sea or Myanmar or Tibet or Taiwan or their relationship with North Korea

        Look the US ain’t a good guy either but all you fucks act like China is lol

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          4 months ago

          I’m glad that the US has suddenly started caring about labor rights and the well-being of Muslims, and I’m sure that it’s just pure coincidence that it happens to be aligned with criticizing and fear-mongering it’s largest competitor.

          There are plenty of poor countries with worse conditions than China. Major multinational corporations set up shell corporations to run their sweatshops and if they get exposed they say, “We had no idea,” maybe pay a tiny fine, then set up another company to do the exact same thing. Many of these countries are in the US’s sphere of influence, and many have to sign away control of their own domestic policies as a condition for entry into the global marketplace, while their resources, stolen by force by colonizers, remain in foreign hands.

          Why isn’t the US concerned about their labor conditions? I’ll tell you why: because one of those cases means giving more money to rich corporations in the form of defense contracts, and the other means restricting the ability of rich corporations to exploit the poor. All the bombs the US is building will do nothing to improve the conditions of anyone living in China, while there are plenty of people who the US could be lifting out of poverty if it cared to.

          The sudden decline in relations was not because the whole US just woke up one day and decided to start caring about the conditions of laborers in China, which used to be much worse than today. Don’t feed me that nonsense.

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            4 months ago

            The relationship was never good I dunno where you live but China has always been considered not a real friend by the US. Business doesn’t mean good relations lol

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              4 months ago

              I didn’t say the relations were good, but they were certainly a lot better 5 years ago.