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haunter ◴[] No.45078660[source]
In the end it's the biggest leopard ate my face moment ever:

China has very high growth momentum that surpasses American living standards soon, and not long before it will surpass American security standards too. China's purchasing power is probably more comfortable than most western countries, with extensive housing and high speed rail and electric cars etc. When a country becomes rich, inevitably other countries ask for their help. That's why China's growth must be curbed, fast > tariff them to their death or so. But I really don't think it will work at all. And personally I don't even think it's a good idea at all to begin with.

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AngryData ◴[] No.45080664[source]
Why does China's growth need to be curbed or opposed in any way? What does that accomplish? The only thing we need to be doing is ensuring our own stability, be decently self reliant, and improve the lives of our citizens. It is in inevitable fact that China will eventually surpass us economically, they have far more people, fighting that is just crabs in a bucket fighting over who gets to stand on top of the others.
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1. buyucu ◴[] No.45081629[source]
Western Elites can not stomach a non-Western country prospering. It goes against everything they believe in.
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2. simonh ◴[] No.45084767[source]
Japan? South Korea? Taiwan? Singapore? Saudi and the Gulf States?
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3. buyucu ◴[] No.45090309[source]
Saudi and Gulf States are run by violent dictators who are Western puppets. Did you forget about MBS 'the Bonesaw' ?
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4. simonh ◴[] No.45096795{3}[source]
He did that because he’s a western puppet? The west puts up with them despite such vile behaviour. It’s simply absurd to argue the west can’t tolerate prosperous non western nations when there are many of them we get on with just fine, or despite severe cultural differences.

The USA spearheaded integration of China with the international trading system. Their development was an intentional goal.

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5. buyucu ◴[] No.45099943{4}[source]
to screw the Soviets. It was a clever political move to weaken the Soviet Union.