China said the United States is the “biggest disruptor of regional peace and stability” in the world in a scathing response Wednesday to a Pentagon report on China’s growing military buildup.
The annual report that is required by Congress is one way the Pentagon measures the military capabilities of China, which the U.S. government sees as its key threat in the Asia-Pacific region and America’s primary long-term security challenge.
The statement China’s Ministry of Defense issued in response called the Pentagon report’s findings false and used it in turn to hit back at the U.S.’ recent actions in helping Israel and Ukraine, as well as its buildup of military installations worldwide.
Oh my god are we really doing this. It’s like an elephant took a shit, and a rhino took a shit, and the rhino says that the elephant shit is going to make a worse sandwich.
Sure, you could technically argue that the rhino shit is 2% smaller, you’re still shoving a giant rhino shit sandwich in your mouth.
And “stable/unstable” is not the best metric either. An authoritarian militaristic dictatorship is often more “stable” than a Democracy. You can force stability on a population by taking all their rights away. Doesn’t make it a good thing.
Dictatorships aren’t stable. Literally a lot of the destabilisation the US does is destroying elected left wing governments and replacing them with right wing autocrats.
And the difference is enormous, it’s not marginal. It’s not even close. Your analogy isn’t good.
And sure, every genocide is an atrocity, but the US hasn’t just done genocides, they’ve spread them. They’ve educated foreign groups in how to perpetrate their own genocides.
China isn’t better, they have simply had less power to implement their power plays, and that’s down to historical accident. It’s just the US’s history of this crap is so much more extensive that China isn’t wrong to point it out. That’s all I’m saying.
History says you’re wrong. The longest most stable leadership in all of human history happens under autocracies. China had one single dynasty rule for almost 800 years, that’s almost 3 times as long as the lifespan of the US.
Hey, you’re right that the US destabilized other countries, but it’s stupid to ignore all of human history and use this alone as proof that autocracies are unstable. It’s the US that’s unstable, not the autocracies.
It really isn’t because the US is SO much younger, unless you’re only counting the last 50 years of history, which suspiciously looks like your case.