alt Hacker NewsGo ask anyone in Southeast Asia which they'd rather have colonize them: USA or China.
They'll usually refer to China in terms like the "thousand year enemy".
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I’ve only been to Vietnam but the answer there is it’s… complicated.
They’re culturally part of the sinosphere but of course constantly living in the shadow of your much, much bigger neighbour to the north does breed some ill feeling.
The USA on the other hand, well, they’re not particularly popular either for obvious reasons
Ask Latin America which they'd rather have colonize them.
Grass is greener on the other side. Hegemony on the other side of hemisphere is greener or benevolent.
That really depends on who you ask. If it's that bad then why did all of those countries sign up for the RCEP?
> Reversing last year’s trend, a slim majority of ASEAN respondents selected China (52.0%) over the US (48.0%) if the region were forced to align itself with one of the two strategic rivals.
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