Developing world needs an alternative to Chinese tech::In April 2022, the United States launched its “Declaration for the Future of the Internet.” It asserts that human rights and democratic values must remain

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    1 year ago

    This is the best thing that happened to the world in 300 years. The history of the Western World is one of murder, invasions, genocide and imperialism. Now they are finding it harder and harder to invade and murder us as their industrial base diminishes.

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      Hate to be a downer but murder, invasions, genocide, and imperialism is more of a general humanity thing. China had it’s warring states, Japan had Unit 731, and Cambodia had the Khmer Rouge just to name three examples.

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      Pretty much every large culture, religion or empire in the history of the world is one of murder, invasions and genocide. That’s kind of how they get big, and it’s in no way unique to the modern (last couple hundred years) western world. History is littered with psychopaths all over the world attempting to conquer the world and slaughtering everyone in their path to greatness.

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      Oh yes innocent peaceful China, certainly not the worlds longest running imperialist country ever. How many hundreds of millions have been killed in wars by China?

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        The Chinese government has only been in power since the late-40s/early 50s. Do you contribute the deaths by Nazi Germany to the modern German state?

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        I once saw a documentary on China, in which at some point they visited the National History Museum of China or something alike where there was a huge wall where the nation’s history was depicted.

        The Mao era was a tiny bump on a massive history. That country endured every assault from every foreign influence and power and simply progressed forward.

        They still see themselves as an empire. The empire.

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          One-note support of a regime with talking points rather than actual arguments? Smells like a govbot to me…

          For non-bots: No one I’ve seen here is arguing that America hasn’t done shitty things. If you want to have China be your imperial masters, you have every right to make that decision, but imperialism sucks no matter who’s running it (hint: it’s not just a yt people thing), and China’s international relations strategy isn’t being run for the good of poor countries, but the good of the Chinese state. I think things tend to go better for the poweless when power isn’t unipolar, so poorer countries can play competing interests off each other, but every sovereign nation gets to make that call for themselves.

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              Pretty sure I’ve never murdered anyone personally, but I’m actually pretty much constantly talking about my country’s murderous policies. Which ones? Chile? El Salvador? Laos? Iraq? I’m a leftist, I can talk about that shit all day. I think we’re dicks. I’m just also antiauthoritarian, so I think the Chinese government are dicks, too.