Comments by "Persona" (@ArawnOfAnnwn) on "THREE big LIES about CHINA that you have always been told - VisualPolitik EN" video.

@antixocialman Funny that you have to mention the term 'anti-American' in the first place. It precedes antipathy towards China, and for good reason - a mountain of history. It's also very widespread and dispersed - you'll find the sentiment all over the world, whereas antipathy towards your 'bad guys' is far more specific. That should tell you something lol.
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@rainman5428 Don't bother. You're talking about the country that killed 3 million Vietnamese just cos of a rivalry with the USSR. Ultimately a hegemon will always be antagonistic towards its rivals. You don't remain a hegemon otherwise. You won't be left alone as long as you're a rising power.
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You really think a public health measure like that is going to be permanent? Lol why would it? It's there to ensure Covid doesn't spike while they vaccinate enough of their population. There's no reason to continue it long term.
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@doujinflip 'Wolf Warrior' diplomacy is a pejorative term used by the west, but only cos you take your strongarm tactics for granted. How about 'actually going to war' diplomacy, which the US practices? You don't get more aggressive than that (fyi, China hasn't been to war in nearly half a century). It was actually the US which came out as far more aggressive from 2016 onwards (go check out all the Trump China compilations right here on YT), but that's apparently not being 'wolf warrior' somehow. As for zero-covid, that's a measure in place until they can get their population vaccinated enough. But it has worked - compare China's Covid death toll with that of the US, and inb4 you say you don't trust any data from China (despite even international institutions using it).
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@klhilde Just cos the term originates from a Chinese film doesn't make it one the Chinese are happy about - it's a pejorative term, why would they be insulting their own diplomacy? Also the Australian import restrictions came after they asked for an investigation in the origins of Covid - AFTER there had already been multiple of them. The implication was clear - they had their own desired answer, and were going to keep pushing for it until they got it. Meanwhile what would you call the US keeping Cuba under sanctions for over half a century despite almost universal (including from allies) global disapproval? The US is the most sanction-happy nation in the world fyi, as well as the one that's gone to war the most - if that's not 'wolf warrior' diplomacy, then why is it for China? Ultimately the west takes everything it does for granted, but attacks others for it.
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The US doesn't 'safeguard' maritime trade lmao. From what? Pirates? They barely even exist today. Safeguarding maritime trade is just an excuse Americans come up with to justify their massive navy without acknowledging that it's really just meant for war. The worlds' piracy hotspots are already patrolled by multinational forces that're well capable of handling some starving Somalis coming on dingy little boats. Also China mostly doesn't depend on the west for either oil or food or materials. The only significant 'western' source of that is Australia, and while losing them may hurt there are other sources. Hence why they invest so much in Africa.
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@ferdomravec1520 "China going under same sanctions and having food and energy import blockaded by any one of the enemy states on first island chain like Japan / Korea / Taiwan / Philipines" - even all of those states together can't blockade China, and they know it. Nor will western sanctions impact China's food or energy supplies much, only raw materials from Australia, as there's large sources of those out of the west. They'll have the exact same effect as they're having on Russia - cutting them off from some high end goods, except China has far more manufacturing capacity than even Russia has. You're also conveniently treated the west as infallible, as the west is wont to do. You underestimate just how bad China cutting off all trade with the west would be, which they have no reason not to do if you guys are doing it anyway. And no, the last 30 years were not great for everybody on this planet - try telling that to the places the US invaded, killing more people than Russia has. Once again, the west is not the world. Just cos you guys love the status quo doesn't mean everyone does.
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@J_X999 No I'm saying anti-Americanism is an older and more global phenomenon. What does Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, China, Russia, etc. have in common with each other? Not much. And yet somehow there's anti-Americanism in all of them. By contrast those places aren't anywhere near as widely disliked, mostly disliked in the specific places in which they have a bad history. That should give one pause. It doesn't make these places the good guys, but it certainly undermines the idea of the US being one. And yeah the reason is a mountain of history, oft of the violent kind, and not even for the cause of freedom or the like. When the OP talks about defying the 'global system', it's really more honest to say defying the west. Yes China also paints America as the bad guy, but one of those nations hasn't been to war in nearly half a century while the other left its last one just last year. Recall even the trade war wasn't launched by China. And yet the latter is treated as the aggressor. American wars this century have higher death tolls even individually than all of Russia's conflicts in that period combined. Yet look who's considered the demon, and who's treated as the champion of the light. Meanwhile China doesn't even have any recent wars, so they fixate on its internal policies instead as if that's their business. And even then their death toll is higher. But this isn't unique to China - it's been done before and is again being done to Russia, before Trump shifted all focus to China it was being done to Muslims, and so on. Basically anyone outside of the west who dares to defy the west isn't merely a rival, they're actively evil. Which ofc they'd reciprocate. But that anti-Americanism is so old and found so widely should be a dead giveaway. You don't get so many widely different people disliking you for no reason.
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