You know America is screwed because all the scare articles about China are basically "China wants to turn the international order into [something that sounds realistic, workable, and modest] and we must stop them before it's too late!"
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don’t confuse “realistic and sensible” as alternative to consensus liberal order and “realistic and sensible” as move within liberal consensus-formation
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I mean the supposed changes they seek to international norms, such as argued in section 4 of this (basically anti-interventionism):https://macropolo.org/reluctant-stakeholder-chinas-highly-strategic-brand-revisionism-challenging-washington-thinks/ …
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maybe wrong link or wrong #. Obv anti-interventionism would be gr8 in the abstract but what is “revisionist” in the whole basket of chinese preferences is stuff like randomly redrawing borders, reorganizing institutions to give China more pie
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Could China fight for more pie? Sure. Do they deserve more pie? Maybe. But the idea the US should rubber-stamp all Chinese pie-demands isn’t grasping how abandoning the international liberal order will work
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My comment isn't really about China, it's about what US elite commentary about China says about the US. And they're worried China will stop them being stupid.
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okay sure i agree with you abstractly in wishing our “foreign policy community” be sentenced to re-education camps in scenic rural Hunan
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(but there is a strong case that China is actually revisionist whereas anti-Russian sentiment is 99% meme)
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I mean, obviously they're revisionist. No country would put up with the Taiwan situation. Or being surrounded by foreign military bases. Or an international order that says its political system shouldn't be allowed exist.
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