So now we can add “directly capturing a sovereign leader” to the list of crap the US has done. So what do you think will actually be “the straw that broke the camels back” for world leaders to actually do something? Think it’ll be significant or something mundane?

  • vga@sopuli.xyz
    85·
    8 days ago

    For them miserable fucks to vote for the Democrat candidate.

    For China to stop being a fucking asshole and start being a world leader instead. They would be handed the title so easily if they just did the bare minimum of a powerful, civilized country.

    1. Recognize Taiwan as an independent country and start actually advancing a rules based world.
    2. Stop flooding the world with cheap state-subsidized junk.

    Those things are literally all they would need to do. We would drop USA like a sack of rotten potatoes.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      8 days ago

      China fundamentally can’t be the world leader as it’s incompatible with the rest of the world it would have to lead. Here we are talking about this on american led internet - not Chinese great firewall. The only thing people want from China is the stuff they make not the Chinese culture or leadership.

      The reason why US is so successful at leading the world because it’s basically a giant haven for other world cultures which makes it easy to integrate anywhere.

      • BanMe@lemmy.world
        3·
        8 days ago

        China doesn’t necessarily have to lead to control. Look at their investments in Africa over the past decade. The US stopped investing in developing nations so China took the lead over the fastest developing continent. They’ll have a ton of influence there for a generation at least, will be able to secure deals and lock the US out of them.