alt Hacker NewsI'd rather have no overlord, but between China and the US, the one abusing its power to force deals since the 80s us obviously the worst.
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If faced with two genocidal villains who see a nearby sovereign territory as theirs really even if the locals need to be reminded of this with guns, I'd rather have the competent one who sees the interest of the people collectively as important.
I don't have to think either isn't "abusing its power to force deals".
> I'd rather have no overlord
Unfortunately, that's not how humans work.
> the one abusing its power to force deals since the 80s us obviously the worst.
Agreed. China's behavior towards its own people, its neighbors - Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and India - and the international community as a whole since Dengism took hold have been inexcusable, no matter how much cheap manufacturing they're able to pull off.
They've blatantly enabled the totalitarian DPRK in its quest to defy UN sanctions over its nuclear program, and have violated the sovereignty of their neighbors in the South China Sea. Now they're undercutting manufacturing around the world by producing goods without the consideration of environmental concerns that places like the EU and US try to take into account with their own industrial development. PLA hackers have attacked numerous international targets. PRC agents have worked to abduct Chinese citizens exercising their basic human rights to free thought abroad through a system of secret police stations.
All of this since they ran over protestors with main battle tanks in 1989.
What's truly frightening is that the powerful in the rest of the world seem to want to emulate this sort of behavior, particularly totalitarian control of their own populations.
I was going to say you're probably not going to like the Chinese take on the surveillance state. Then I remembered Flock exists. Can't have shit in this era :(