A China Policy for the American People

[@dm20422]

Thank you for beginning the constructive dialogue

[@robb1324]

I'm sorry, but when you have a nation with an autocratic dictator that leads with an iron fist and repeatedly vocalizes ambition to not only expand its own territory, but to dominate and re-shape the entire world, that nation is a THREAT, not a challenge. Appeasing dictators with expansionist intent is NEVER the correct response. Humanity's progress, the limited, but still significant spread of rule of law around the world, and the sovereignty of nations has been incredibly hard fought - and now in part due to actions taken by the CCP, in the last few years, that progress has receded. I think you guys are looking at China partially through nostalgic, rose-tinted glasses due to your many decades spent within and working with China.

[@robb1324]

Let's not forget either that they are matching these words with action by building up their naval assets and nuclear stockpile at breakneck pace. It's a pace of peacetime military buildup that hasn't been seen since Germany in the 1930s. I know it's hard to imagine or believe when your whole life has existed in peacetime, that wars on this scale may not only ever exist inside of history books... But taking this lightly, or as an impossibility would be a foolish miscalculation with potentially catastrophic consequences.

[@topgames6672]

So what's your idea, fighting a nuclear war against China? Like the US, China is a superpower, whether we like it or not.

[@aftdel]

Total shills. Shameful.

[@phillip76]

First, you're framing that it is between autocracy and democracy is not taken seriously by any who knows anything about international relationships between China and U.S. Your narrative is for mass consumption, and not rooted in reality. U.S. overthrow democracies all around world and supports dictatorships. This is not some conspiracy, but in fact, part of standard history. Second, studies show that America is actually a plutocracy. Another arrow to your simplistic narrative. Third, China is not "expansionist". In the last 100 years, how many wars did China started compare to the U.S. There is no evidence at all to suggest China is "expansionist".

[@parklilys3108]

While you are entitled to your opinion of China, which may be planted in your mind from biased media, majority of Chinese people love their country and government. It is indisputable that within a short period of 40 years, China has been transformed from a poor country with the GDP per capita less than many countries in Africa to the second largest economy in the world. Chinese people are really standing up economically and they enjoy their lives. It is this transformation that makes some not-so-nice people in rich countries uneasy and even angry. These not-so-nice people look down people of China and intend to keep them as poor as possible. This explains why there is so much disinformation about China. Now there is opportunity for you to see China with your own eyes: China is open, and you can go there without visa whether you are Americans or Europeans.

[@colinadevivero]

A vague discussion on important matters.