“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.”
How much accountability was there when the US overthrew the leader of Guatemala then funded, trained and armed the death squads that were responsible for the murder of over 3000 civilians in a civil war that killed over 200,000.
Or in Nicaragua where the ICJ found that America “violated international law” by directly supporting the contras in a war that killed over 30,000 people and many civilians.
Or El Salvador. Or Honduras. Or Chile. Or Uruguay. Or Panama.
Or as Dr Dre mentioned previously, in Libya, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan. And Vietnam and Laos and Cambodia.
There was zero accountability displayed by everyone in the US from the President down to the point where some of the architects of this activity have returned to participate in the totally manufactured coming conflict with Venezuela.
Can you honestly lay these same charges against China?
“The Ausi SAS goings on are not on the same scale as the problems that may be emerging.”
May be emerging? What exactly are you implying there. What nefarious activities do you think “may” be emerging with China as apposed to the actual problems that America has created in violating international law.
"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.”
Do you think the “system” like America’s has not resulted in large scale atrocity? How many people in Iraq have been unnecessarily killed as a result of the lies about WMD?
“Ask an Iraqi, an Afghani, a Syrian, a Libyan, an Iranian etc if they think their own governments have any culpability in this ??"
Perhaps you could provide some clear examples of how these Governments are culpable in the total destruction of their nations.