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nater5000today at 5:34 PM3 repliesview on HN

China is clearly the US' main adversary. I don't take it personally and I don't believe China is inherently evil or something, but you'd have to be an idiot to be a US citizen and believe that you can trust China more than your own government in any general sense. Just the same, if you're a Chinese citizen and you believe you can trust the US more than your own government, then you're also an idiot.

It's not a matter of whether or not you can trust these governments at all; it just comes down to which government do your self-interests align with best. It's not some grand political statement to acknowledge that my interests don't align well with the interests of the Chinese government. It's just an obvious fact.


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bellowsgulchtoday at 6:07 PM

Public education is clearly nonexistent. Just incredible. Did these people just sit and do nothing for their entire grade school education? An elementary school child learns what imperialism, war, and human nature is.

tancoptoday at 6:42 PM

thats exactly why a lot of people in europe or america trust china more. enemy governments have zero direct power over you and they dont really want to work together with your government. they cant hurt you, only the country you live in.

and with the snowden leaks, epstein files, ICE raids, rising fascism in europe, chat control, genocidal wars in ukraine and palestine, there is no reason to support your country anymore.

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re-thctoday at 6:32 PM

> It's just an obvious fact.

What's the fact? Facts require proof, right? Where is in it?

> China is clearly the US' main adversary.

This?

It's clearly documented Trump and friends randomly made that policy up in the 1st term. Can you tell from the current term? There's been more effort spent on non-China matters, e.g. Middle East related than China.

> it just comes down to which government do your self-interests align with best

Why do you have to pick 1? Most normal people, US citizens or not wouldn't. Tesla has a gigafactory in China. Apple is trying to buy Chinese memory. Meta tried to buy Manus AI. What adversary?