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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

hey usa, china is building tons of high-speed rail. they're the leaders in decarbonizing their energy mix. they're building tons of housing to handle population growth. they're financing infrastructure projects in the global south. why not try beating them at all that?

no? just wars again? okay.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Chinese people own their homes too

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 minutes ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago)

Even with more property rights. If you own a house and you don't want to sell it when they want to build a new highway, they build the highway surrounding your house, instead of expropriating you like in western countries.

[–] pticrix@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I think Americans should ban debate clubs. Clearly they're only teaching how to create mental convolutions instead of creating sound arguments.

[–] sangeteria@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Americans should consider doing mathematical convolution instead. Very important for functional analysis with deep connections to the Laplace, and thus Fourier, transforms.

[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 hours ago

I thing losing $400b will greatly help to put china in its place

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 37 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

It is absolutely maddening to see American pundits defend every dumbshit, ruinous, genocidal policy over the last twenty years by pointing at China and claiming, "We had to show them we were the boss".

From AI to A-bombs, there's nothing you can't get away with by insisting "China Bad! This will stop them!"

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 hours ago

We are operating from a position of strength!

[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 1 points 1 hour ago

They can't admit the only reason has been "Money!"

[–] BottleBoardBakon@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

I'd put money on China being able to pwn the USA with the click of a button. We know about salt typhoon, and there's been documented backdoors in IoT devices and some Unitree bots. Imagine all the things we don't know about. Especially regarding power generation and general aging infrastructure.

[–] fanbois@hexbear.net 1 points 10 minutes ago

An open conflict between the US and china would probably end with exactly zero winners and an uninhabitable glowing piece of rock orbiting the sun. Maybe the cockroaches can then find a better path to communism.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 1 points 47 minutes ago

probably depends on whose soil it's on and whether or not it's a proxy war and/or world war.

[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 hours ago

Buddy, I could tell you that based on the fact that they've lost every single war they've been in since WWII.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 17 points 4 hours ago

Literally the equivalent of a homeless libertarian laughing at well to do, middle class Chinese people because he thinks he's better off

demonstrating that the US is willing

Yes, because America is famous for the ambiguity around whether or not we'd go to war with global South nations

and able

No

In that sense, it was already won

The government can behave like a rabid dog, but China would Old Yeller America

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 hours ago

China and Iran are allies.

If the US and China go to war Iran will close the strait to their enemies. And we’ve seen the US is impotent to that and overly reliant on oil.

I think China just has to deal with a first strike from the US and then wait for an impotent United States to fall apart and starve.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 4 hours ago

Remember folks, the guy is a master of the deal

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

So you're saying distracting Americans from the Epstein files had nothing to do with it? LOLOL

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Americans famously can't hold more than one idea at time, if Trump shit his pants tomorrow the entire investigation of Epstein is gone.

Please president, hold your shit!!!

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 2 points 34 minutes ago

Americans famously can't hold more than one idea at time

This but unironically. AmeriKKKan liberals are perpetually born-yesterday.

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 4 hours ago (6 children)

Show china youre the boss by taking hong kong back and making it independent

And protecting them and taiwan

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago

Drop the cheese is not doing you well.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

How exactly will they do that? Theyd need boots on the ground to "take back" Hong Kong 😂

[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 hours ago

Hong Kong, the city that Britain commandeered from the Chinese?

[–] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

Rhodesia is that way → ....oops, too soon?

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, sometimes I feel like we should just get it over with and start global thermonuclear war for no reason too. Just end it all, you know?

[–] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

We had a good run, it's time for the mole people to have a chance.

[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

This plan is around 100 years out of date