[throw848tjfj]

Already happening, best example is worldwide grounding of Boeing 737 MAX. It was China who triggered it, not US authorities (protecting US corporation).

Similar thing with batteries on airplanes, tube trains, ferries and underground garages. China cares about fire hazard, other countries care about ideology.

[wiseowise]

> other countries care about ideology

Not even ideology anymore, see US. Democratic country has been attacked in a biggest war since WW2, and they've decided to halt all support and attack Iran instead.

[noelsusman]

China, famous for never putting ideology over policy.

[Barrin92]

unless you're going back to the cultural revolution, modern China is extremely pragmatic. It's a nominally socialist country that runs deregulated special economic zones with tens of millions of people and more economic competition than anywhere else.

The equivalent would be if the US started to run a socialist planned city of 15 million people somewhere, just for the sake of it. There's pretty much no other place that in the last 30-40 years has as much of a spread of policy experimentation as China has had.

[lqstuart]

Too bad they don't care so much about factory worker safety or slave labor

[phatfish]

I don't think the bake-off to decide which superpower has the worst human rights record is going to land where you want it to. Hint, they both suck.

FWIW, I'll take the one not dropping bombs to keep their BFF happy, boosting right-wing shitheads, threatening to invade their real allies and slapping dumb tariffs on everyone.

[lqstuart]

They both suck, but one of them literally harvests organs from political prisoners.

I’m honestly torn on which one I’d pick, but there’s a TON of likely state-sponsored pro-China propaganda on the internet, so I consider it a patriotic duty to push back for the sole reason that we can still freely talk shit about the one (for the time being, as long as you don’t mention the blessed martyr Charlie Kirk), whereas the other blocks the internet and imprisons people for dissent.

[platevoltage]

The country I live in has a specific cutout for allowing slavery for incarcerated people.

[Scroll_Swe]

China glazing on HN, wow what a suprise!

[drstewart]

Wow, that's amazing. What fire hazard are they preventing in their support for Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine?