Joe. Well argued mate.

Let's not forget the real enemy within that indisputably serves the interests of China is poverty and inherent inequality! And we can turn all that around without making anyone poorer than they are now or less equal!

The above-aforementioned enemies are the common foe we must destroy if we would remain an independent sovereign nation!

There's a group who believe that doing the above includes handouts and a higher tax burden for the rich elite!

Nothing could be further from the truth! This economic ar against poverty and inequality is done with a universal lower tax rate that everyone above a generous tax-free threshold, all pay. The rest is done via cooperative capitalism and vastly expanded economic opportunity we can all benefit from, rather than price gouging, tax-avoiding, profit repatriating foreign multinationals

It really is that simple and as difficult for the same old devotees welded to the current fundamentally flawed economic choices and policies!

That some argue against the above/can't see it, will not see it in a blue fit, tells who and what our real enemy is!

GREED DRIVEN. BUTT-LICKING SYNCOPHANTS ALL MASQUERADING AS FOLK WHO GIVE A RATS!
Alan B

The US has not achieved “global predominance and hegemony” through “peaceful and democratic means”. It has done so through the sheer weight of its unscrupulous intelligence and its brutal military. In the last seven decades the US has invaded or bombed dozens of countries and instigated coups against dozens of foreign governments. It has sought to crush scores of people’s liberation movements and interfered in scores of foreign elections. It spends billions every year on its military and has over 800 military bases around the globe. It has rarely been at peace throughout its 240 year history and is without doubt the most warlike nation in the history of the world. This is how it has achieved world dominance; peace and democracy have nothing to do with it.

China in contrast has a comparatively peaceful past, especially considering the long stretch of its history and of its borders. To assert that it has “always resorted to aggression and conquest in its international relations” is incorrect. There have been provocations and border disputes, but very little in the way of bombing and invasion. China has not invaded another country for over forty years, in which time the US has been in a perpetual state of war.

There is no evidence whatever at this stage that China “produced” the Coronavirus as a bio-weapon and “released” it from a Wuhan laboratory. The origins of Covid-19 have not yet been established and until they are it is malicious and defamatory to make such claims.

Dear Joe,

Thank you, I agree with everything you said.

Hi Bronwyn,

"China has not invaded another country for over forty years ...."

Wow, forty years. How many other countries can claim that ? Well, most of them can actually. And I don't think that the various armed disputes between China and India, China and Vietnam, China and Indonesia, China and South Korea, China and Japan, would square with that assertion.

Nor would China's seizure of atolls and shoals right up to the territories of some countries, in contravention of the International Law of the Seas, not to mention turning them into military bases, fit your claim.

Sorry :)

Joe

Catfight!

The Shanghai Serpent v Guangzhou Joe.

<< Wow, forty years. How many other countries can claim that ? Well, most of them can actually. >>
Well, on my count, at least 40 of them certainly cannot make that claim ... and that is a lot. I only made the point to demonstrate that China is not the aggressive and warlike nation Sudhanshu Tripathi asserted it to be.

<< And I don't think that the various armed disputes between China and India, China and Vietnam, China and Indonesia, China and South Korea, China and Japan, would square with that assertion. >>
My point stands, China has not invaded any of these countries in the last 40 years.

<< Nor would China's seizure of atolls and shoals right up to the territories of some countries, in contravention of the International Law of the Seas, not to mention turning them into military bases, fit your claim. >> These actions are not invasions. China claims them to be defensive. It sees the South China Sea as its natural territory. I doubt it would ever have built bases there if it hadn't itself been surrounded by 400 US bases and provoked by US incursions in its sea and air space.

<< Catfight! >>
No, Mr Opinionated, it's called debate. Watch and learn!