alt Hacker News> Europeans are typically not willing to place the US above China.
You keep saying this as if it's not a totally reasonable position given the behavior of the USA towards others over the past year or so.
> Europeans are typically not willing to place the US above China.
You keep saying this as if it's not a totally reasonable position given the behavior of the USA towards others over the past year or so.
The other poster mentioned the opinions about the US and China being multi-faceted, I like to see it with vectors. My question is, given all the vectors, can you provide an average magnitude and average direction of the vector? If the average vector points left the opinion favors China, if it points right the opinion favors the US.
The American point of view is, yes we did make a claim towards Greenland which is European territory, but we also helped with European security. These are two separate vectors, right? Now average them. And plot China's vectors. I imagine the vectors China produces is much lower in magnitude, and as such provokes a lower emotional response in terms of opinions.