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Originally Posted by zamler
As usual Bill Maher manages to make good points and at the same time be wrong on so many levels. He talks about how amazing China is at building infrastructure, sure but they do it while not giving a single #### about environmental concerns. If the U.S. did even one project using the same lack of regulation Maher would be stamping his feet like a crazy person.
Also notice how he glosses over China's atrocious human rights record.
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As the West's lead in economic superiority, technological and scientific superiority, and even superiority of functioning governance become more and more questionable, there's a notably increasing focus put on claims of Western moral superiority or Chinese moral degeneracy.
Moral superiority doesn't have much influence on the course of history though. It wasn't the moral superiority of the West that led to global hegemony of the British or American empires, and it's not what the West needs to keep a hold of that hegemonic position.