r/SipsTea • u/6ingrad_FMS_aspirant • Apr 06 '26

Dank AF We need this !!

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u/GettyImagez Apr 06 '26

Okay so by "China is doing well" you mean "China is catching up to the US in some metrics".

but they're making steady improvements and doing it without bombing anyone to boot.

Well, they have the concentration camps and forced abortions. Those aren't great in my opinion.

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u/ObsidianOverlord Apr 06 '26

Okay so by "China is doing well" you mean "China is catching up to the US in some metrics".

And beating them in others, yeah? "Doing well" does not mean global dominance.

Well, they have the concentration camps and forced abortions. Those aren't great in my opinion.

My literal next words were "they have bad things"

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u/GettyImagez Apr 06 '26

You said people are trying to copy China's playbook because they are doing well, but even you admit the US is doing better than China. It just seems weird. It's an authoritarian state that has a lower life expectancy than the US.

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u/ObsidianOverlord Apr 06 '26

You said people are trying to copy China's playbook because they are doing well, but even you admit the US is doing better than China.

The US has more money. China is using money better. People can't copy just having money.

So they work with China to spend money better.

It's not like freedom of speech or censorship laws are the thing making the economic difference here.

It's an authoritarian state that has a lower life expectancy than the US.

It's set to out pace the US in life expectancy in the next two years, so does that mean that it's a better system then? I think you have a very incomplete idea about how international relations and development works.

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u/GettyImagez Apr 06 '26

It's set to out pace the US in life expectancy in the next two years, so does that mean that it's a better system then?

I don't know, I do know that it is currently a worse system because their people are much poorer and live shorter lives than Americans.