They can't stand a little taste of their own medicine.
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Or it could just be the rampant anti-china propaganda as a result of the trade war?
The fact of the matter is everyone is driving the world's biggest lift truck and everyone is insecure. Especially those who bring it up in the first place.
> Anyone doubting this just read the history, a handful of Spanish conquering a whole empire (twice!).
They didn't conquer the "whole empire". They conquered the elites. Big difference.
> Imagine if Spain wanted to engage in a full fledged war with the Aztecs or Incas.
Spain would have been utterly crushed. There is a reason why spain didn't wage a full fledged war against the aztecs or the incas.
> They could have easily wiped out everybody.
With what? A bunch of useless and inaccurate muskets?
I think you are highly overestimating what europeans were back then and their technological capabilities. Spain conquered the aztecs like the british conquered mughal india. They bought some elites, killed other elites and for whatever reason were at the right place at the right time to exploit the aztecs. Why and how is completely lost to history sadly.
But one thing we know for certain is that the atzecs elites were completely incompetent and ignorant and most likely divided. Which is a recipe for disaster. But all empires seem to verge towards that state amongst the elites - persians, romans, mongols, etc.
Also, I find it interesting that many schools ( in the US ) will do away with SAT scores because it is unfair to disadvantaged students. But they will not get rid of their legacy admissions program which is the most biased criteria against disadvantaged students. The irony here is that the SAT score was used to counter bias against disadvantaged students in the first place. It was viewed as the only "objective" part of the admissions process which could not be "bought".
My solution to end unfairness in college admissions process is a points based lottery. Each college publicly sets out a points system for GPA, extracurricular activity, SAT, athletics, legacy, etc that they will apply to an applicant and derive a score. Each college publicly sets a "mininum/cutoff" score. Every applicant with a score above the cutoff will enter an independently monitored lottery. The lottery will select the freshman class out of the pool of candidates.