but is not acting like world police like the US Empire
Because it is too weak right now. It’s waiting for the US to make more mistakes. When the time is right it will take Taiwan and solidify control over the east and south China sea.
That you think China is different from every great power in history is the odd take. Power centralizes and seeks more power. It’s a tale as old as time. China literally modeled it’s rise after the Golden Era of American industrialization from the late nineteenth to early 1920s. America went from a backwater to a serious power in a generation. China did the same thing. It now plans to capitalize on it’s capitalism. (e.g. geopolitical dominance in the East and satellite control on the fringes of it’s empire.) China is a little America in everything but name.
This isn’t accurate at all, though. China is socialist, the large firms and key industries are publicly owned and the working classes control the state. The vague idea of “power corrupting” is just supernatural superstition, you’re confusing the form, ie an industrialized society, with the essence, ie a capitalist empire vs a rising socialist country. You’re looking only for similarities and ignoring the key differences that prove your narrative highly flawed.
Power is a metaphysical force, like a trinket in video games corrupting you, once you take hold of it, it takes hold of you. Changing your mind, forcing you to increase it, to expand power. Many fight it, but so long as you grasp it, it will act upon you. This is why term limits are not just good, they’re necessary to prevent people from going fully mad.
Because it is too weak right now. It’s waiting for the US to make more mistakes. When the time is right it will take Taiwan and solidify control over the east and south China sea.
That you think China is different from every great power in history is the odd take. Power centralizes and seeks more power. It’s a tale as old as time. China literally modeled it’s rise after the Golden Era of American industrialization from the late nineteenth to early 1920s. America went from a backwater to a serious power in a generation. China did the same thing. It now plans to capitalize on it’s capitalism. (e.g. geopolitical dominance in the East and satellite control on the fringes of it’s empire.) China is a little America in everything but name.
This isn’t accurate at all, though. China is socialist, the large firms and key industries are publicly owned and the working classes control the state. The vague idea of “power corrupting” is just supernatural superstition, you’re confusing the form, ie an industrialized society, with the essence, ie a capitalist empire vs a rising socialist country. You’re looking only for similarities and ignoring the key differences that prove your narrative highly flawed.
Bahahhhahahha I’ll take whatever you’re smoking.
Power is a metaphysical force, like a trinket in video games corrupting you, once you take hold of it, it takes hold of you. Changing your mind, forcing you to increase it, to expand power. Many fight it, but so long as you grasp it, it will act upon you. This is why term limits are not just good, they’re necessary to prevent people from going fully mad.
What libs think power is, yet they still somehow ok with it being handed to already evil people in their “democracies”.
The trinket line is really good, it always works lol. Good job!
Lol