yes and no. china is a fast ship, and they can turn fast, and accelerate fast. because they lack the bureaucratic guardrails that exist in a western democracy like the USA. but fast ships find their way onto rocks quite often.

the chinese govt is currently trying to do everything it can to remain a manufacturer on a global scale. that means more AI, more automation, more energy, etc. But with 1+ billion mouths to feed they'll feel issues that come with that trajectory faster than the USA. i'd frankly be shocked if they dont renew the 1 child policy in the next 20 years, they need to drastically reduce their population in the coming more AI driven manufacturing economy. and they need to not only match the cost of US producers, but beat it, to serve the US market. due to shipping costs.

This post was edited by thesnipa on May 18 2026 11:38am

we need china and china needs the USA

Your signature is stupid, why do you not comment about islams colonization of the Middle East? Iran was not native Islamic. Neither was Iraq, Syria etc. why don’t you spread awareness of their colonizer terror projects?

yea gnarjay what that guy Whirlpool talking about

Bill Warner, PhD: Jihad vs Crusades

my tax dollars arent funding any islamification of anything , nor are the arabs committing a genocide. its quite the opposite

if an islamic state was the world superpower and doing what israel is doing, i would call it out. the fact that you arent calling out israel and are offended by my signature ( LOL) tells me all i need to know about you

Lmfao are you fucking kidding me - how delusional can you get when Muslims make up the biggest recipient populations of taxpayer funded benefits.

Iran literally has been funding terrorism for years. Pakistan as well. Are you paid by the jihadist?

This post was edited by Whirlpool on May 18 2026 02:21pm

sources???? Im sure you have legit sources for this and arent just pulling it out of your ass, right?

you want to talk delusional? the USA is literally the biggest financier of terrorism in the world

Sources - literally every fucking person knows this.

I have never said the US is innocent but way to deflect. I bet you didn’t know that Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Iran, etc. were not native islamic countries - they were colonized and genocided by murderous Islamists.

Only path forward is coexistence. What i find annoying is it's typically the US that frames this in a us or them zero-sum framing. We either win which means they lost or vice versa. To me that's a nonsensical framing and i think there's a lot of special interests here in the US that stand to profiteer from that type framing and national posture. I think there's a path here for China to continue to grow and prosper while the US continues to enjoy a high level of global influence, affluence, etc.

If this coexistence comes with us having to yield places like Taiwan or south China Sea countries to the Chinese sphere, to me that's an acceptable outcome. Lets say we agree to backdoor dealings they get Taiwan but get out of South/Central America, while places like Africa, ME are basically border lands where both find some geopolitical clout, what exactly is wrong with this? Is the alternative where there's massive war and tens of millions die a better alternative? Personally i would view us as the bad guys if we are so unwilling to yield just a little to prevent wide-scale world wars.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on May 18 2026 04:03pm