Western leftists literally never shut up about the Nordic countries so I must flatly reject the premise that the justification is the preservation some vestigial notion of Manifest Destiny
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying, then… But I agree that we’re just bouncing off supporting arguments rather than directly defending or refuting a central thesis.
My understanding of your point was that western critisms of China are either at best misinformed, but in general the result of trying to preserve the idea that “the west is in front, so everyone else must be behind”.
I fundamentally reject this specific formulation because the result of that formulation is that there exists no valid criticism of China.
So, let’s just settle this: what would you say is the most uncomfortablely valid criticism of China?
Western leftists literally never shut up about the Nordic countries so I must flatly reject the premise that the justification is the preservation some vestigial notion of Manifest Destiny
Seems to me that you’re just trying to dig deeper out of a sense of contrarianism even if you largely agree with what I’m saying.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying, then… But I agree that we’re just bouncing off supporting arguments rather than directly defending or refuting a central thesis.
My understanding of your point was that western critisms of China are either at best misinformed, but in general the result of trying to preserve the idea that “the west is in front, so everyone else must be behind”.
I fundamentally reject this specific formulation because the result of that formulation is that there exists no valid criticism of China.
So, let’s just settle this: what would you say is the most uncomfortablely valid criticism of China?
What do you mean “uncomfortably valid?” Some valid critiques I have include the following, but are not limited to:
The Market Sector has given rise to a large group of Chinese Liberals, who have some level of influence they should not have.
While improving gradually, LGBT protections are not as good as they could be, such as in Cuba.
The PRC could be doing more to dedollarize the world and throw off US Hegemony. Part of this is due to the influence of Chinese Liberals.