Personally I feel that the probability of a major conflict between China and the US has increased substantially since the beginning of the 2020.
We live in interesting time.
Cheers.
We live in interesting time.
Cheers.
I will not count on difficulty of technology to stop a country progress for long. China mastered bullet trains and surpassed the original designs from German, French and Japanese designs, so given time and resolve they will be able to solve given, at present USA closing doors and China opening doors for educated immigrants.
I hope the world instead of focusing on differences, focus on collaboration, USA and its system has its own pros and cons so is China’s system. Also in general I believe no meaning in forcing Chinese to accept what’s right for them based on US ideas, let them have their own freedom to choose and work or change their system. As US has black minorities and Puerto Rico (overseas territory), so does China (Hong Kong and Taiwan). Let them figure out in their own way how to work out between their majority and minority. This is what US or any sovereign country irrespective of system will expect. If China tries to teach USA how to treat and respect its minorities and overseas territory they won’t agree, same is China.
Even in HN by downvoting comments minority view is turned unreadable, this is same in USA, India or China where systems work based on majoritarian politics.
As I said like China is imperfect in treating its minorities with differing opinions (Tibet, Uighur, Hong Kong and Taiwan), so is many large democracies be it USA or India (where majoritarian politics works the same way as China, trampling on the rights of minorities finding loopholes in systems and bypass all safeguards with majority support). We all have a right to disagree with Chinese system, but don’t have a right to force it on majority of Chinese who believe in their own system.