• CyberEgg
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    9 months ago

    No. Just because the US has become worse than before and China didn’t, even if the US closed in on how bad China is, that doesn’t make China better than the US. More reliable, yes, but not better.

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      9 months ago

      Reliability is a big part of a good trading partner. Also helps if you can be reasoned with.

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        9 months ago

        Cheap (slave) labor is also good for trade I guess. And an authoritarian regime is nice for stability.

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                9 months ago

                Doesn’t help that the stupid simple DnD system can’t possibly give a decent explanation of the differences between the USA and China.

                But yes, the USA is currently more threatening towards Europe and Canada than China is. The USA is also significantly more chaotic/unpredictable/unreasonable/insane.

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      9 months ago

      On which points do you think the current USA government is better than China’s one?

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            9 months ago

            What I say is that we shouldn’t trade extensively neither with China nor the US. Fuck China, fuck the US.

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              9 months ago

              How do I put this: Being under China would suck, but it would still be drasticaly better as they don’t exterminate people out of sheer spite.

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              9 months ago

              That’s a different point. The subject was which is a better partner currently.

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                9 months ago

                And the answer is they’re both bad. Sometimes, even if you ask “A or B?” the answer is neither.

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      9 months ago

      Wow. That’s like, one of the stupidest things I’ve read in a while.