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What is China's position in the world at the moment, summarized in like... I dunno, a couple paragraphs, I guess? (hexbear.net)

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On the one hand, hooray for supporting the development of infrastructure in Africa and stuff. On the other hand, booooo for being a top trading partner with the Zionist Entity, and selling drones to Indonesia, and all that.

So what the Hell do you make of it all! Like I get that there's this term called "realpolitik" which is somehow relevant, but I'd like a longer explanation than just one word. Like how does the good and the bad fit together at its core?

You could certainly write tomes about this topic — many people have done exactly that — and maybe I'm being a bit incurious to expect someone to serve me a quick answer on a silver platter instead of diving into as many articles and PDF books as I can get my hands on... But I'm also just kind of tired of having such extremely underdeveloped views on the most populous AES state and country in general, after I came to unlearn or mistrust whichever views I'd had on China previously.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

On a personal level I actually think it's sad. For both China as well as the US. They're both so large and vast that just exploring these nation's various geological and cultural differences would take a lifetime. Extensive journals and books have been written about their unique cities and states (zhou) that literally fill libraries.

However, I feel this amount of insularism creates ignorance and prevents people from a better understanding of the global community around them. I would argue that's why they're both the most hated tourists in the world. So it's not a good thing in my opinion.