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kain_kusanagi on 31 July 2012
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Stinky said:
kain_kusanagi said:
To be taken seriously China must do several things.

1. Stop mistreating it's own people.
2. Stop protecting nations that mistreat their people.
3. Send as much aid around the world as the USA.
4. Stop artificially deflating the Yuan to appear economically stronger than it is.
5. Pass labor laws and outlaw child labor.
6. Stop bullying it's neighbor nations and laying claim to nearby independent sovereign nations.
7. Stop pumping pollutants into the air and dumping waste into the ocean.
8. Stop arresting political protesters.
9. Build a healthy tourism program.
10. Have as many or more nukes than the other super powers.

That last one is pretty important.

While I have no problem with the USA or China, please be consistent:


1. The USA has mistreated its own people, see Waco for example.

2. Like the USA and Saudi Arabia?

3. China is the biggest investor in sub-saharan Africa, helping build the economy of this massive area.

4. The USA is currently devaluing the Dollar to prop up the economy.

5. While not officially sanctioned, a large part of the US' economy is based on cheap illegal immigrant labor.

6. Hawaii, Panama, Venuzeula, Grenada...

7. The USA continues to be the biggest greenhouse gas emitter.

8. The USA calls them terrorists.

9. China has excellent tourism.

10. Is there any point having enough nukes to destroy the Earth more than once?

Context my friend. Your criticism of the USA lacks context. The problem with your assessment is it assumes the USA is mostly bad. I believe the USA is mostly good. Not perfect or without mistakes, just trying to be.

As for nukes. I hate that they exist, but since they do there is a very important purpose to responsible peaceful and liberty loving countries keeping them. The USA maintains a large arsenal of nuclear arms as a deterrent that protects not just the USA but the whole world from nations like Iran that would like nothing more than to blow a huge hole in Israel for no other reason than a hate that goes back so many generations you have to refer to holy texts to understand it. Iran, or any nation with a crazy tyrannical leader, knows that if they launched an attack, before it even landed, they would be nuked beyond rubble. With world super powers it acts as another kind of deterrent. Mutual assured destruction. It worked during the cold war and it still works.