cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/43954112
China ended the first half of 2025 with a record trade surplus of about US$586 billion
Exports rose 5.8 per cent in June from a year earlier to US$325 billion
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/43954112
China ended the first half of 2025 with a record trade surplus of about US$586 billion
Exports rose 5.8 per cent in June from a year earlier to US$325 billion
Fair enough my point is if you’re worried about world stability that there are plenty of other countries who are interested in World stability and will pick up the mantle at the US leaves on the ground.
Yeah China’s bullying the Philippines however the Philippines are also a bit of a proxy to the US so they’re just naturally hostile because they don’t like the US. I’m sure there’s other reasons and yes they absolutely have imperialistic ambitions but I would say that when we make comparisons to United States or even like the USSR I think China has more peaceful than these states and is less belligerent.
Not to say that China isn’t belligerent only that I think they’re generally less corrosive to the world
PH, Peru and Argentina all have the same complaints on China regarding fishing. Their aggressive ghost fleets will show up to take everything and ram them out of their own waters. To say they are less aggressive is giving good will they haven’t earned. Likely because they don’t have the same power projection the west currently has.
I think an issue with this statement is that it just assumes things will work out. I specifically brought up the csto as a non western example of an empire collapsing causing a war among two other parties that were in that sphere of influence as they say. I also brought up ancaps as another unserious group of wishful thinking. I don’t have an answer but I am calling yours out as handwaving real concerns.
I’m not necessarily hand waving away the issues you have I just think that there’s plenty of countries jockeying around that’ll fill the void left.
It’s just a difference of opinion.
I do agree that it remains to be seen whether or not that’s good or a bad thing.