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Oh yea, replacing a near-authoritarian globally dominant country with another full-authoritarian country. What could possibly go wrong!
In practice they have been pretty hands off as they develop the global south afaik.
They're also only doing it for its resources, I think you could realistically assume, but it can't be denied that their approach has brought much better results than America's so far.
Are you talking about China's belt and road initiative? Lol it's all about soft power and that's what they're after, resources are just a happy bonus.
The US's USAID is essentially the equivalent but yet the tankies will deride against it all day and even cheer Drump and Muskrat on because they're doing something they want (dismantling it) but in the same breath, will defend Belt and Road as some greater altruistic good
so happy for liberals on the internet to finally have their own thought terminating cliche in "tankies", the jealousy for "woke" must have been overwhelming
insomuch as USAID was a tool for exerting soft power by lifting up global communities and spreading goodwill for America through humanitarian effort, I support what it was, I didn't want to see it gutted. insomuch as China is exerting soft power by building infrastructure and investing in industry, it'd be nice to see the US exert a little soft power against us citizens from time to time.
Lol how nice you can just label any word you don't like as a "thought terminating cliche" or was it just an "Ill defined term" or was it just because "authoritarianism is ill defined"
In any case I used it to describe a group of people who are quite literally authoritarian as described here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Yes, similar goals, differing execution