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0 pointsErlangen3y ago0 comments

The answer above has been deleted, but this answer is even better. Replace US with China. But to understand it, you need to be familiar of modern Chinese history.

https://www.zhihu.com/question/439676867/answer/2559528806

1. The United States has not been fascist until recently, but has been a fascist state since its founding. However, the US has not always been so fascist since its founding, and there was a period of relative normality during the Reagan years. In contrast, the fascisation of recent years has been particularly striking.

2. In terms of internal causes, the relative openness of the US was due to the fact that the McCarthy movement had gone too far and not only did the people become unhappy, but eventually the government became unhappy. So there was a temporary social consensus that fascisation had to be curbed. However, Trump himself was not a victim of the McCarthy movement and has been in good government since its end. He therefore did not personally resent it much. And in order to preserve the shining image of the Republican Party and to put an end to the leftist media of the Democratic Party engaging in the practice of Fake News. When Trump was in office, he directly disallowed statements that publicly denied the history of the Great Depression to the McCarthy movement. In this way, the new generation in the US also became predominantly favourable to the McCarthy movement, promoting the return of fascism to American society.

3. Externally, the US has been eager to strengthen its control over Canada, Mexico and Cuba, the 'backyard' of the US. This has not only caused resentment among the local population, but has also been widely criticised in international public opinion. If you talk about the Wilson Doctrine at this time, then the scandalous things you have done in the US are in themselves the opposite of what you want to do. The theory you preach turns out to be a slap in your own face, and you might as well not preach it at all. Instead, by picking up the ragged flag of fascism, you can explain the justification for these hegemonic acts of the US. And so its propaganda tone leans more and more towards fascism. This is the reality that needs to dictate the discourse.

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cuteboy193y ago· 4 in thread

>Externally, the US has been eager to strengthen its control over Canada, Mexico and Cuba, the 'backyard' of the US

This is so true. China has either directly invaded or has bad relations with every one of its neighbours. Even the communist ones. Even those seperated by sea. Only reason why this bullying is tolearted is because they are rich now

thriftwy3y ago

It looks to me that China has decent relations with Russia, Mongolia, and even central asian Kazakhstan/Kirgisia/Tajikistan (of course there are some ethnic and economical tensions dragging this back, not to mention the issue of Uighurs who are related). China also has good relations with Pakistan.

inglor_cz3y ago

Mongolia is an interesting case. Its independence is guaranteed by Russia, otherwise China would likely have swallowed it in the 1950s or so, much like Tibet.

But Mongolia, sitting between two authoritarian powers, is nowadays a stable democracy with regular transfers of power between opposing parties.

I wonder if this can last. Their best chance is actually the fact that they aren't very prominent on the international stage and probably not worth a conquest or hostile takeover right now.

noisy_boy3y ago

China has mainly good relations with "asshole" countries. Rest of their "good" relations are based on their loan sharking practices.

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cuteboy193y ago

They have had a war with USSR in the past. Nixon had to intervene and stop them from Nuking Russia

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chaostheory3y ago· 2 in thread

Very clever. I love how he’s able to talk about the Cultural Revolution, Trump, and the One China Two Systems policy veiled in US history. Pure genius.

I still prefer the Russia and Putin on though since it’s more specific to Xi.

chaostheory3y ago

Didn’t mean Trump. I meant he was talking about Xi using Trump. Xi is China’s Trump afterall

bigcat123456783y ago

Xi is China's Trump?

This is a quite uninformed perception on both xi and Trump. This is so ridiculous that it can only mean that it's made by someone who is ignorant of both Chinese and US pilitics.

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