alt Hacker NewsParent's comment was "Let's hope China are benevolent world superpower" - I provided grounds why they (China) are not, you've provided grounds for why the US is not. The two are mutually exclusive insofar as the US' state of benevolence has no bearing on China's.
Deliberately or not, your comment is an example of whataboutism [0]
> The two are mutually exclusive insofar as the US' state of benevolence has no bearing on China's.
All due respect, I literally said that, twice. I suppose you could still call it whataboutism by technicality, but it doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
My point was that replacing a benevolent superpower with one that is not is quite a different situation than a "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" one, and I was just pointing out that this is the latter, not the former.