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TLDR: please read Against Empire by Michael Parenti
What would it look like if one wanted to believe the narrative of the most destructive and most parasitic country the world has ever seen against its designated enemy targets?
Remember this country is responsible for:
And more by the only country to drop nuclear bombs on civilian populations. Twice.
No other country in the history of the world comes close to the barbarism.
And that's just outside of its borders. Let's not get into the mass incacerations of the descendants of the slaves it built its wealth on, the ongoing mass poverty, food insecurity, the world's most expensive police state, the mass surveillance, the child labour, the concentration camps of migrant workers, the daily lynchings by its civil society, the monthly public school masacres due to a degnerate culture of patriarchy and racism, the forcing the orginal peoples of the land to reservations where the life expectancy is 40 years, the ongoing redlining, mass medical bankruptcies etc etc.
Whereas China: https://thetricontinental.org/studies-1-socialist-construction/
Think about the people in that article^. Are they truly less free than the folks in the paragraph before the link?
Others (and I above) have given resources to links why what you said about China is wrong. The problem with that approach is you have already bought into the narrative of the US empire of its designated enemy. I instead will point you in the direction that the US empire is way way worse than even the likes of what Chomsky let's on:
Let's start with where we agree with: US = bad. Then please consider reading the above 5 books. Then maybe, just maybe one day in the future there is a sliver of hope you may consider why the "neither washington nor beijing" is still very much pro-washington.
Yeah, as a westerner on the global stage I am asking you to engage in class betrayal.
Best of luck.