The concerning thing about the rising rhetoric on this forum and in the wider community regarding the rise of China as a global player is the suggestion that they must be stopped with force.
The concerning thing is that the rising power of China is the rising power of a system that doesn’t allow for leaders to be held to account or removed by the people.
If any power, anywhere, doesn’t allow for the people to oust the leadership then eventually, once the wrong person is in charge, atrocities will occur on a large scale. The Ausi SAS goings on are not on the same scale as the problems that may be emerging.
If you think that a system like China’s can function indefinitely without ending in large scale atrocity then that is where you and I differ fundamentally and the reason we probably won’t be able to agree on how best to go forward.
Cheers, Qanda