| What you see as cozying up to the CCP is irrelevant if people perceive the USA as being the same as China. Trying to gain independence from the USA is sorely needed. Smaller countries have no choice but to play both sides. The US consumer base is driven by debt, which is unsustainable. So it just makes sense strategically:
https://impaxam.com/insights-and-news/blog/us-consumer-healt... The US also doesn't have freedom of speech anymore. Daily attacks on the free press, wrongful arrests, censorship of government agencies, extortion of Universities. Also, ICE has disappeared activists who were legally in the US. It's becoming Trump's gestapo real quick. Don't close your eyes to the harsh reality. The US has had mass incarceration on the same footing as slave labor camps for decades now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera... There might be freedom of religion, for now. But there's no freedom from religion:
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-terrible-10-church-... Nobody believes the current trend will end with Trump. The corruption, internal divisions, feelings of grandeur and bullying will not end with this regime. And there are a lot reasons to believe Trump will not cede power. |