I hate how these people treat countries like football teams. It’s all about who wins and loses the game of domination to them, rather than something with real material consequences with real human suffering involved.

“Sure, our country’s insane capitalist imperialism was filled with slavery, the great depression, insane forever wars and corporate corruption and greed so bad that I’m pretty sure Exxon’s pro-oil propaganda has doomed the human race and all life on this planet to global warming… But at least we won the global dick-waving contest! Wooo, 'murica!”

These people really do just handwave away the notion that the CPC and Xi enjoy a level of popularity and trust that literally zero politicians or political parties in the west can even come close to.

“Noooo you don’t understand you tankie people are supposed to hate their politicians that shows the system is working!”

If China became a liberal democracy, why would a liberal fear the rise of China?

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Oh yeah…

He’s “right” for the wrong reasons, typical of reactionaries; Xi is a comparative moderate in the upper echelons of the Chinese govt. He’s a dedicated marxist theorist and a real believer. This is not true for others. There are plenty of liberals (i.e. hypercapitalists) and straight-up reactionary nationalists and more than a few of the latter are militarists in the PLA or with strong connections to it. People who would be even less hesitant to press the button, as it were. A coup or color revolution would by necessity mandate that one of these other factions comes out on top, and that’s where the real danger would come. Xi keeps these other factions in check, so it goes without saying that Xi is, in fact, the best possible person in government, for both practical and socialist reasons.

Because the liberal democracies have just been killing it the last decade.