[–] LuciusAM 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
What makes them our enemy? What are they doing to us that our own allies (cough Israel cough) don't also do to us? Tech thievery? We steal shit, they steal shit, everyone steals shit. Most of their tech thievery isn't even really that, it is our corporations and politicians being greedy enough that they give them the technology just so they do business in China. That says a LOT more about our businesses being traitors than China being our enemy. We would do the same if the shoe was on the other foot, but we aren't really behind in any technological area so we have no need to. Give us a few years though and I am sure we will fall behind with a renewed focus on social justice rather than space exploration.
Us breaking away from them in terms of trade would hurt us in the long road more than them. Yes it would initially be harder on them but they are willing to do what it takes to weather the storm while we will just give more and more money to "marginalized" people until we become basically Venezuela. They have shown they can recover from extreme poverty and famine in modern times, we have not. Their Belt and Road Initiative is also working to shore up that weakness of theirs so if we were going to do it, the time to do it would have been before Biden. After Biden they may have gotten far enough along for them to be able to weather a break better.
[–] TheDaoReveals ago
They've been fighting a soft war with the US for 20 years. They disregard rules they agree to, like manipulating global markets and arming enemies, engage in lawfare, support hostile states, export pollution, spy, propagandize, and steal IP. They created an entire economy around siphoning jobs. But we're a larger part of their trade than they are of ours, so fighting back will absolutely affect them and is winnable. They are no more monolithic than any other state and the Party's authority is predicated mostly on economic improvement.
That doesn't mean corporations aren't traitors, but are you really incapable of understanding that traitors have to have another side to ally with?
All nations - even our allies - are rivals. You can be a traitor to your nation by spying on them for an ally, so logically being a traitor doesn't mean that you were helping an enemy.
All of the things you are describing (save stealing IP perhaps) are things the US does and does quite often. For example, are you aware we export a lot more coal than China does? That doesn't make us bad, but it also doesn't make them bad. If pretty much everyone is doing something can you really say that it is bad?
[–] xenoPsychologist ago
it must be very hard to be an actual shekelwhore.