Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "Patrick Boyle" channel.

  1.  @dznuts123  It really depends on situation to situation. Americans generally aren't fond of governmwnt bailouts of "too big to fail" companies. China ensuring investments are met by the locals but not in foreign investors is also seen as VERY fucked up, borderline aggressive nationalist populism.
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  2.  @dznuts123  That isn't double-standards at all, wut? Not liking it in the US and thus not liking it elsewhere is a consistent stance, the opposite of double-standards. Btw, using this logic, the US raising tariffs on Chinese goods is also "US protecting themselves first", yet China called that an "attack". To be blunt, Chinese have far bigger issues of double-standards than Americans do.
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  3.  @dznuts123  No duh, but usually there comes a point where serving your own national interests comes to the detriment of other nations; or even multiple nations. We live in a time of internationalism; one act has repercussions elsewhere. Things are not isolated anymore. While you are busy deflecting how tariffs on Chinese goods hurt the US consumer, I was talking about China's and the Chinese people's response to it. Which is to say; they cried that it was "unfair" and an act of aggression to weaken China. (China's tariffs on US goods has been MUCH higher than vice-versa for several decades so by your logic China's government has been hurting its people for many years) How about you stop deflecting and talk about what I was talking about? China's response and how it goes against your narrative about double-standards? China's "success" in government has led to one of the largest amounts of deaths for Chinese people in all of human history. Are we just conveniently forgetting the many millions lost in the Great Leap Forward or are we just counting the era since Premier Deng? Because looking at it throughout history, the US government has done astoundingly better than China's has in a much shorter amount of time. Much higher HDI, much higher political liberty, the works. If we're only talking about the past 30-odd years, then yes China has done much better than the US...but that has far more to do with just how absurdly poor and downtrodden China was prior. It literally could do nothing but improve since it was mostly in absolute poverty. For reference, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and Germany all did MUCH better than China has in a shorter timeframe and with far less bloodshed. We do have serious problems in the US, but you live in an alternate universe if you're comparing US issues with China. There is a difference between fair criticism, and propaganda for a foreign state; and your obsession with talking about the US in relations to China smells of it. Newsflash; we can do both -talk about issues at home WHILE complaining about foreign imperialism against our allies in the region. If you can't do that, then maybe you should at the very least stop talking down people that can?
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