> If they’re useless, how are they making chips and secret tech?
My reading is they are trying to make us useless but we are not there yet? I assume it takes time, right?
In any case, not like the west can complain after what we did in the opium wars?
the west isn't one entity.
Plus two wrongs don't make a right. Just because in the past, there has been atrocities committed, doesn't mean there's justification to do so now.
What makes you think so
Even just consider that the hegemon that leads the west has changed from great Britain to the US.
Some sort of moral balance has to be achieved before two forces can move forward. It will feel reasonable to both sides when it happens.
I can quote quite a few cases from history where this kind of thinking has led to the worst kind of atrocities. Especially when one side wants to satisfy a resentment that has been built up over decades or centuries.
Including virtually every major case of genocide from the 20th century that I can think of.
> Some sort of moral balance has to be achieved before two forces can move forward. It will feel reasonable to both sides when it happens.
While, I can think of cases where this would apply when the restoration of balance happens directly after the offense (such as actions taken against Germany and Japan from 1944-1950).
However I wouldn't be able to come up with a single example of such "restoration of balance" successfully happening 100+ years after the initial offense in a way that was seen as reasonable by both sides after.
Would the relationship between Germany and Israel be restored if Israel nuked Berlin, killing 5 million people?
Maybe you can provide your examples?
Some country might feel that they're justified in what they're doing, because another country previously have done it (and got to a dominant position, perhaps, by doing it). But generally, i dont think this justification is sound, and is an excuse, rather than a real justification. Now of course no country require justification to do what they wish - that is the meaning of having sovereignty, but this also means that other countries must actively stop this sort of practise.
Can US blame China for another two hundred years for Pearl Harbor because both China and Japan are the East?
The duration between the last US-UK war and Opium wars is much shorter than the Opium wars and the present. During this time, US helped China by opening up its market asymmetrically and being on its side during WW2 and even gave China aid.
> President Roosevelt approved $25 million in military aid to China on 19 December 1940, permitting the Chinese to purchase one hundred P 40 pursuit aircraft. By late spring 1941, the United States had also earmarked over $145 million in lend-lease funds for China to acquire both ground and air equipment.
https://www.history.army.mil/brochures/72-38/72-38.htm#:~:te....
The aid continues even now: https://www.usaid.gov/china
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