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This forum only has a few kinds of purely political topics and one of them, oddly, is anti-China stuff. I don't understand it at all.

About the headline... the US and its allies have stolen from and taken advantage of colonial countries like China for hundreds of years, and that is directly responsible for the technological and economic advantage currently enjoyed by the US - not western rationalism, "democracy" or some other warmed-over, quietly racist answer like that. American companies can pay Chinese people shit for grueling tasks and bring home superprofits from their labor and have been doing exactly that for decades and decades. The Chinese state sometimes goes along with this and sometimes does not and "steals" technology back.

Stop buying into this nationalistic nonsense of us vs them. You are all going to get us sucked into a world war. Instead, consider asking if the interests of the billionaires who "own" these technologies that are being "stolen" align with yours. Spoiler alert: if you're not a billionaire, you have less interests in common with US billionaires than with Chinese workers.

Class struggle is heating up in the United States and in China and competing companies have less room to continue exploiting people without violent resistance, so they need to distract people by telling them to go to war with Eastasia again. Please don't fall for it.

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It's not odd at all, what is odd is how many defend China and point out the US's past sins. If China feels it was ill-treated it should ask for reparations, not freaking steal any piece of technology it can.

Furthermore:

1) China is stealing technology from everyone, not just the US.

2) They're also doing some hobby colonialism of their own in Africa.

Not to mention bullying anyone that dares call them out for their concentration camps. So China seems to be one more bully on the international stage. There's enough of those already.

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I never said China's ruling class weren't "bullies". What I am opposing is the myopic belief in a nationalistic, us-vs-them mentality that transparently exists to make people ignore the class differences staring them in the face at home.

Also, ask for reparations? Like all the other times the US has happily granted those??

And finally, at least you are seemingly frank about believing that the US should be able to exploit other countries as the supreme "bully".