Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "TED" channel.

Judging by the comments, this guy must really have touched a raw nerve among those from the USA. It seems they have a problem, shared by many within their empire, that their politico-economic system is not the only one possible. There are alternatives and those alternatives may be demonstrably superior in some respects.
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Justin sénéchal "do you even know how many people in their own country the CCP has killed?" Games of 'government A has killed more people than government B ergo government A is better' are childish and futile. "Corruption in that party is just as bad (if not worse) than american politicians." And so is 'two wrongs make a right, lesser of two evils'. Another childish and fallacious form of reasoning "As much as his criticism on the american politicians are obvious and true, they are hypocrites too." All people with power are hypocrites, it goes without saying, but to use it as if it were some sort of knock-down argument is a non-starter. "There are also plenty of Chinese who deeply hate the CCP and what they stand for." I'm sure there are. So…? "The CCP destroys people's homes to build condos that the population cant even afford" The environment gets destroyed and polluted under both corporatist/capitalist Democrats and Republicans (so-called democracy) for the profit of the few, in addition to building homes that poor people can't afford. Is that supposed to be better? "Their economy isn't improving at all right now either." That remains to be seen. Furthermore, to point out the poor performance of an economy that is reliant on a global economy that is in recession/depression due in no small part to the poor performance of other countries, and one country in particular, is a bit rich.
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Something Seems Off Both China and the USA engage in human rights violations but on balance I'd have to say that, as the USA tends to engage in the most egregious of them outside its own borders while China tends to keep them within its own borders, it is the USA that is probably the worse offender as it commits its violations on an international scale whereas China commits them on a national scale. That said, I think comparing one country's violations to another is a pointless and invidious exercise in distraction.
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Hae-Jung Kim So, the USA effectively invading Korea, dividing it in two, installing an essentially fascist government (and certainly a brutal dictatorship), banning elections when the USA's favourite candidate wasn't likely to win, causing directly or indirectly millions of Korean deaths of those who opposed the dictatorship and in the subsequent war to reunify the country, and supporting the mixture of authoritarian government alternating with military junta ever since… you call that stopping China. I don't think its China you should be worried about. And whose this 'we'? Do you speak for all those murdered by the USA and US-backed South Korean dictatorships?
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Something Seems Off I honestly do not know. And without access to unbiased information I think it's anyone's guess. It's also akin to comparing apples and oranges because the two countries have very different cultures with different values and expectations as to how governments should behave and divergent political and economics systems that make meaningful comparisons difficult. And behind your question lies a whole lot of biases and presuppositions such that even if we were, for argument's sake, to draw the conclusion that one country was in fact in some way 'superior' or 'more advanced' than the other, what then? Where would such a conclusion lead us? To a just war? Why this obsession with proving one's superiority? And its converse, 'proving' others inferiority?
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@bonk1600 It was never about ideologies or human rights (capitalism versus communism, democracy versus dictatorship). It was about resources. To wit, non-western resources, the same resources that made western Europe and its offshoots, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, so wealthy in the first place. The whole of the cold war was basically a fight to stop the third and second worlds from wresting control of their resources back from the first world and using them for their own development and to gain genuine independence and autonomy from western domination (in effect bringing to an end several centuries of European imperialism and colonialism). Control of gas and oil from the Middle East and other mineral resources from Asia (eg. Afghanistan) is a classic case of this. In my opinion the United States of America is fighting a rearguard action to prevent what the independence movements of the immediate postwar period fought for and that stalled during the 1960's and 70's when the US began its rollback of the initial gains achieved under nationalist leaders like Abdul Nasser of Egypt and Mosaddegh of Iran (as well as similar gains made by the women's movement, civil rights and labour movements back home). Unfortunately, both a resurgent Russia and China, are, with increasing success, hindering the USA and western worrier Europe in their hegemony of both the third world and it looks increasingly likely that strategically important parts of the non-western world may finally get to control their own resources and attain a level of economic development that finally frees them from vassalage to western capitalism/corporatism.
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@Ral9284 : but then the free market would no longer be free. In other words, by stopping "that [those] kind[s] of people" you would, indeed, be doing just that: stopping the free market.
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Maybe there can only exist, by some as yet unknown law of the universe, only ONE planet with sentient life on it at ONE time in the universe and that planet, obviously, is us.
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