The west went to war with China because China didn’t want to pump their citizens full of opium and now the west is gearing for another war because the west doesn’t want cheap products and treats for their citizens (which was the entire purpose of outsourcing everything to China)
It has ever been thus. Remember when the UK forcibly deindustrialised India, causing a Dark Age in textile quality we still haven’t recovered from? (Try getting decent regency-era Chintz or Muslin, can’t be done.)
China literally isn’t doing anything bad on an international level, they’re just building their economy using moderate state control, and the West can’t take it so they have to invent a new kind of “violence” China is enacting in the form of economic violence against the economies of other countries…and not for one god damn second will 99% of Americans stop to contrast the actual economic violence of US sanctions against say the Cuban people, vs the made up economic violence of Chinese downward pressure on renewable energy commodity costs. It’ll work, and my brain will keep melting
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