[luckylion]

They are buying Africa via development aid, that's quite different from bombing Africa. The Chinese will certainly leverage their power, but they tend to do it in more subtle ways, at least where their power isn't overwhelming. Their posturing in the South China Sea certainly looks different from their behavior in Africa or South America. But as I mentioned, I don't believe that it's because they care about human rights, the sovereignty of countries etc, it's that they can't get away with openly bombing random countries on the other side of the globe yet. The US -for the most part- can, so they don't care for subtlety and just do.

[yters]

Who is bombing Africa? It seems a lot of moral outrage against the US stems from false equivalence.

[boomboomsubban]

The US has been routinely bombing both Libya and Somalia for around a decade.

[yters]

Yes but for what reason? Just for fun? To take them over? To combat terrorism?

[boomboomsubban]

Ostensibly it's combating terrorism, but basically American imperialism.

[yters]

I must have missed when we colonized Somalia and Libya. Thanks for the update.

[boomboomsubban]

American imperialism has never been about traditional colonialism, so I'm not sure what you mean.

As you asked originally, I find neither the US nor China to be moral, but I can't understand the outrage over China's acts while ignoring and trying to justify US acts.