alt Hacker News"In fact, the world would be a better place if the US would not use their influence to try to keep other countries down."
acting like china wouldn't doing the same thing to other country if they ever weld such position
every great power would do the same thing to defend their position, its not unique to the US. only because current incumbent power is we see things this way
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If I don't make the world worse then someone else will is such a depressing state of affairs.
If that's the mentality, then what's worth fighting over? We should give up because we don't even deserve the rewards.
china's global status was obtained very differently from the US, its material interests and levers of influence are different
if china was in the same position as the us it would just be the us; obviously this is not inherent to nationality, but material conditions
When china will do it, I'll judge them for it.