First, the West holds a winning hand in our commitment to individual rights. We can lose only by folding. The fact that we haven’t always lived up to our ideals in no way repudiates the ideals themselves. Diversity of thought, freedom to question and create, equality before the law, and individual human dignity have always tended to foster prosperity and strength — and always will.
So it doesn’t matter that the west hasn’t done these things—merely paying lip service is sufficient for prosperity?
A confident Beijing would no sooner throttle the intellectual vibrancy of Hong Kong than Canada would crack down on Montreal, or the United States would stifle San Jose.
The entire thing is plagued by this sort of stupid platitudes.
Second, Western military superiority is most effective as a shield, not as a sword. Its value is in protecting liberty and deterring aggression. The crusading spirit that led us into Iraq and Afghanistan, hopeful that military conquest would produce social progress, was misguided and ultimately dispiriting. But the goal — progress — was no mistake. We merely employed the wrong tool.
OH, OH, WE DID AN OOPSIE!
Non paywalled link for those who actually want to read this warhawks bs:
Heres the conclusion to save you the brain worms:
“This question leads to a third principle: China policy is now too important to be a plaything for Washington’s reckless partisans. Just as warring Democrats and Republicans agreed after World War II to unite behind a Cold War strategy, so, too, must today’s leaders seek a consistent approach to China. Beijing has taken a menacing wrong turn. We need steady hands in response.”
WaPo psychopath arguing for a new cold war, news at eleven.
sigh It’s going to be really “awesome” watching democrats ignore an economic depression for the next 4 years while they play geopolitical grand strategy games with China and Russia.
Awestruck Western leaders have wondered whether there might be something to the idea of prosperity divorced from human rights.
lol, says the man from the country that had to fight a war to abolish (well, hide it anyway) slavery
For whom it may concern:
Western chauvinist leftist spreads (cold)war propaganda about China on the internet to his massive hordes of followers
i sleep [‘at least he is good on internal issues!’]
Bellicose psychopath in Washington D.C. spreads the exact same propaganda about China to the general public
REAL. FUCKING. SHITE
You know who you are, fuck you.
