Comments by "Persona" (@ArawnOfAnnwn) on "Afghanistan: a Chinese Colony? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1.  @JasonTubeOffical  He's talking about the hypocrisy of calling the country a Chinese colony just cos they're working with its govt., when it wasn't called a colony when it was literally invaded and occupied by the US for 20 years. This is just blame shifting, coupled with using the country to further feed the anti-China narrative.
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  2.  @badluck5647  And how many deaths do those sources mention? Thousands? How does that compare with the US' death toll from its wars? Hundreds of thousands in Afghanistan, and even more from Iraq. What about imprisonments? That 1 million Uighurs in prison figure? Funny thing is that China's total prison pop is 1.6 million - from a country of 1.4 billion - but the US outpaces it by far with 2.3 million incarcerated, from just a population of 330 million. And yet look who you're attacking more. Not the global hegemon with the bigger death toll (now don't go reaching back for a half century old dead man - that just shows how much you need to reach to make your point), but the rising power with the smaller death toll.
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  3. ​ @WaveRider1989  And you'd prefer to live in Switzerland over America. That doesn't really say anything, since the comparison isn't fair in relative terms to begin with. The US is still the world hegemon, and has a ridiculous number of advantages over most others, yet performs poorly in proportional terms compared to not just China, but plenty of other countries too (Germany or Japan or Singapore or even India). America has been essentially easy mode as far as nations go for the last 150 or so years (ever since it was fully settled) and yet loudly proclaims its brilliance. In contrast China, while certainly not the most difficult nation to develop ever, is a much bigger challenge than America ever was - and they're doing it much faster than America ever did as well. They're not the first - all the Asian tigers have put the US' record to shame, developing in decades and with far fewer resources and while in far less secure neighbourhoods. And yet Americans like to think they built their country through great struggle, before turning and decrying the 'sweatshops' in other nations that were never so lucky. America is secure, has tons of resources, began with a relatively educated populace that kept getting added to, and after WW2 even literally shaped the world economic system to place itself at the center. And that's admirable?! That's just spoilt. Besides being full of themselves in terms of their achievements, they're also huge hypocrites in terms of their values. And this is the worst part, since they constantly trumpet those values to the whole world - and it affects the whole world. This is also what makes them insufferable, and why I choose to take the piss on them. This is mainly concerned with their foreign policy, where despite claiming they stand for freedom, democracy and human rights, they've allied with many autocrats (KSA for example), put many other autocrats into power (Chile, for example), and killed millions with their constant warmongering. And yet they lecture other countries and even take action against them for not behaving properly. And never face the consequences of their actions, leaving the locals to deal with the messes they leave behind (Afghanistan being just the latest example of this). China at least, like most countries, doesn't typically pretend it's pursuing anything other than its national interests. America pursues its national interests while pretending it stands for some sort of higher moral calling. They've even made a religion out of it (look up American Civil Religion on Wikipedia, and take note of the 12th Tenet). Even all their wars are always given some sort of moral justification, which is just a modernized take on the 'white man's burden'. So basically America is both hypocritical and arrogant. It's much easier to stomach a straightforward villain (if that's how one wants to characterize countries like China) than one who's full of himself and keeps claiming he's the hero, despite his actions. China doesn't need more hate, as it hasn't tried to make itself lovable to begin with. They're coldly pragmatic. It's America that doesn't get criticized enough, despite that they've done more harm across the world, because it's a spoiled rich kid with a big stick that's constantly being pandered to.
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  4.  @c.o.o.4633  Nah, Simon never determined the content of this channel. They're just repeating the stuff from their Spanish channel - even Simon was just the English language presenter, nothing more.
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  5.  @badluck5647  Btw, President Pooh, or rather his party, is in power mainly cos, while the US has the highest poverty rate in the developed world despite being the richest country in the world for over a century, China has raised nearly 3 times the US' entire population out of poverty in just a few decades despite starting from absolute destitution (and that's according to the World Bank btw, not the CCP). Indeed there's even American - even Harvard university! - surveys which show they have more public support of their own people than any American govt. has had of theirs.
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  6.  @badluck5647  Lol, that prisoner population is from an AMERICAN policy institute lmao. Specifically the Prison Policy Initiative. And btw, those numbers don't make China look good - India, a country with as many people as China, has way less people in prison. China isn't performing particularly well here, it's just that America does SO MUCH WORSE. It stands out from the entire world for how bad it's incarceration issue is. As for the economy, if you want to substitute your own vaunted opinion or even that of lone economists over that of respected global institutions, feel free to say hi to the conspiracy theorists on my behalf while you're at it.
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  7. ​ @badluck5647  Btw, that's just one example. America stands out for a lot of things. Americans exceptionalism is a thing for Americans, but in some ways it's true. There's a lot of ways in which America is way worse than the global norm, and only a few in which it may be better. For another example, consider military spending per capita. This isn't spending in absolute terms, where of course the biggest economy can spend more, but is a more proportional measure of how much importance a country places on its army (as if the hundreds of foreign bases were not a clear enough sign lol). The US, the country most insulted from invasion, with two giant oceans and 2 weak neighbours, is SECOND in the world (behind Israel, a country with far more reason to do this). China is 58th lol, behind Azerbaijan! Russia is 25th btw, to give some context. America is also one of the only countries in history to regularly get into wars far from its borders (almost all the others are former colonial powers). Even China doesn't do that - all its wars have been on its borders, which is the norm for countries fyi, and it hasn't been to war for with anyone for decades now (and even if it did go to war tomorrow, it'll be yet another border war, hardly a break from the rule). Why does this matter? Because border wars are typical, whereas non-border wars aren't - distant wars indicate hegemony.
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  8. And what's that going to achieve? The Chinese haven't invaded, so all it'll do is drive away their biggest source of support. The Chinese will lose some assets and investments, but they can afford that. Ultimately it'll be the Taliban who'll lose out, not China.
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  9. Bruh he literally repeated a line verbatim in the middle of the video. They put very little effort into proofing their vids. You'll frequently see people pointing out errors in the editing, such as the narration not matching the stuff on screen or stock footage of the wrong thing (often even completely different countries than the one being discussed!).
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  10. ​ @polarbear6597  They invaded and lost. The Sino-Vietnam war lasted about a month, and cost the lives of about 60,000 people on both sides. The previous American Vietnam war lasted nearly two decades, and cost the lives of over 3 million Vietnamese alone (and nearly 60,000 Americans alone) - and also lost. Pretty clear which one was the bigger disaster lol.
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