hey usa, china is building tons of high-speed rail. they're the leaders in decarbonizing their energy mix. they're building tons of housing to handle population growth. they're financing infrastructure projects in the global south. why not try beating them at all that?
no? just wars again? okay.
Chinese people own their homes too
Even with more property rights. If you own a house and you don't want to sell it when they want to build a new highway, they build the highway surrounding your house, instead of expropriating you like in western countries.
tbh living there in the middle of a highway would be hell
it is disappointing how despite how ahead china is in terms of public transit, they still build car-centric infrastructure like this. at least, unlike north america, shitty car-centric infrastructure is not all there is lol
If you'll notice, it's a 4 lane highway, which is medium level traffic, because most people take the train or electric scooters. In America this would be an 8 lane highway or bigger.
I've never had to use the term 'Passive-Aggressive Infrastructure' before but I'm here for it and loving it
China: "Wow they're a lot less tough than we thought"
They lost how many soldiers in that?
I'm not sure how many US imperial troops died, but they did lose a good amount of aircraft:
So glad that American's voted for the "No more wars" president while hoping for a better cost of living.
The US is not a democracy, its a one-party capitalist empire, and even its controlled opposition wing wanted to go to war with Iran for a long time. The democrats under Biden also massively increased funding to Israel to help destroy palestine:
Americans could have had socialized healthcare for what they've sent to Isreal to bomb poor brown people.
No they couldn't, because they'd literally start killing citizens before they'd allow that.
Ehh I'd argue that money was already lost down the black hole of defense spending.
Looking forward to seeing how they'll pay for the replacements
It is absolutely maddening to see American pundits defend every dumbshit, ruinous, genocidal policy over the last twenty years by pointing at China and claiming, "We had to show them we were the boss".
From AI to A-bombs, there's nothing you can't get away with by insisting "China Bad! This will stop them!"
We are operating from a position of strength!
It's a very convenient go-to excuse. And as long as the American public keeps lapping it up, those in power will keep counting on it.
The US is basically a "this is good for bitcoin", but as a country.
Its slow, humiliating, public suicide is even more pathetic than great britain's.
I, for one, think it's funny.
I think Americans should ban debate clubs. Clearly they're only teaching how to create mental convolutions instead of creating sound arguments.
Americans should consider doing mathematical convolution instead. Very important for functional analysis with deep connections to the Laplace, and thus Fourier, transforms.
I'd put money on China being able to pwn the USA with the click of a button. We know about salt typhoon, and there's been documented backdoors in IoT devices and some Unitree bots. Imagine all the things we don't know about. Especially regarding power generation and general aging infrastructure.
Buddy, I could tell you that based on the fact that they've lost every single war they've been in since WWII.
🎶We’ve only just beguuuuuun🎶
I thing losing $400b will greatly help to put china in its place
Literally the equivalent of a homeless libertarian laughing at well to do, middle class Chinese people because he thinks he's better off
demonstrating that the US is willing
Yes, because America is famous for the ambiguity around whether or not we'd go to war with global South nations
and able
No
In that sense, it was already won
The government can behave like a rabid dog, but China would Old Yeller America
Yeah giving away the weakness of all our equipments iranians hurt to china is such a huge deterrant bruv
China and Iran are allies.
If the US and China go to war Iran will close the strait to their enemies. And we’ve seen the US is impotent to that and overly reliant on oil.
I think China just has to deal with a first strike from the US and then wait for an impotent United States to fall apart and starve.
The war was a shit show by a shitty government.
How can people be so delusional?
"When their salary depends on it" is a decent first answer.
