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Originally Posted by Mull
Are you confusing the difference of American past record with China current events-
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actually trying you compare America current /recent actions with China? If so - ya China is a moral lesser to the USA today by a large margin.
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I'm actually just mocking the idea that the US is in this primarily as a moral actor interested in helping people elsewhere in the world, and not just as a dominant power that's pretty comfortable with a unipolar world and wants to maintain that situation, even at the expense of what would be good for most people.
Economic cooperation and absence of conflict would be good for most people.
The biggest challenge for world peace and prosperity isn't China. It's that the BRICs nations now make up more of the world's GDP than do the USA and Europe combined, and that there is a shifting global balance of power away from the US. Response to the changing balance could be more or less peaceful. I would rather cheer for peace than for conflict.