Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "China to go to war with U.S.? Xi tells security heads to 'Prepare For Worst, Dangerous Storms'" video.
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Let's forget about annexation of Tibet, because you have to if you're going to hold up China as a paragon of virtue, which it is not.
But that's a poor defense of the USA, whose intelligence and security institutions have committed many nefarious crimes for short-term advantage. The nefariousness always catches up to you.
USA should have engaged with Mao rather than scorning him. There's a middle path that our leaders, apparently drunk with power since 1945, are unable to negotiate. They oscillate between saber-rattling and handing out the keys to the safe to Mandarins. Guard our intellectual properties and our institutions. Incentivize the respect of Natural Rights and de-incentivize authoritarianism and exploitation.
"Constructive engagement," prudently executed, would give China the respect it was denied since Mao took over, without enabling totalitarian evil.
All of this is moot, as America takes on a surreal, Maoist aspect in its domestic governance.
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