Give me an example then.
Because I've already asked myself that question before.
And there's nothing that China can credibly espouse in terms of universal values, in the face of the US narrative.
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Give me an example then.
Because I've already asked myself that question before.
And there's nothing that China can credibly espouse in terms of universal values, in the face of the US narrative.
It's not that necessarily bad. Because there is always a limitation on how your land can take care of the people (water, food, etc). With limited space like India, to have so much population will eventually burdened their economy. Because whatever you like, poor people are liability. You need educated middle income people as the motor for your economy.
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Having more mouth to feed is not automatically advantage. Depending on the quality of the population With low literacy and poor social service and job opportunity More people is more of burden think of pollution, crime rate, slum and political instability. depletion of resource, environment degradation etc
As the country get rich it is natural for fertility rate to drop . More opportunity for women mean they don't have to be domestic slave and babies factory
What is important is having better educated population for better value added economy and better productivity and innovation.
China has the right policy of expanding tertiary education and expanding access to it to larger population The fact speak for itself China is in the process to upgrade her industrial base resulting in higher GDP and living standard
That is too defeatist. China is not such a depraved country that it is doomed to be inferior to the US on everything. There are plenty of areas that China does better, or can do better, than the US. If you don't believe that, then there's nothing to discuss, because you've already surrendered the whole war at the beginning.
But you admit that a smaller population means less national power and less market power, even if the population is highly educated and works high skilled job, right?
Singapore has a highly educated and skilled population, but it is not a world power by any means.
The only reason China can even think of success independent of the US is that it has a large population.
What, in your view would be the ideal population level for China?
China takes the high road, because it is in China's interests.
China can't win a narrative in the USA or Anglosphere media. China can only delay until China can break out and completely ignore them.
And contrary to what you think, the high road does work.
What do you call it when Xi Jinping receive a standing ovation from the WHO?
Or when Europe applauds Xi Jinping's defence of globalisation at Davos?
Taking the High Road keeps the rest of the world neutral.
In comparison, remember how China tried to blame the coronavirus on the USA a few months back.
It infuriated the Europeans and directly resulted in a harsher atmosphere against Huawei in the UK for example.
Stop avoiding the question about what universal values you would have China push as a Chinese narrative.
If you can't even come up with one example that you can successfully defend, then your entire argument and strategy doesn't work.
And if you haven't noticed from my past posts in various threads, I believe that China will far superior to the USA when China catches up in the future.
But the reality today is that 40% of the Chinese population still struggles to make a living, as per Li Keqiang.
Because you have already told me you think China can't defend anything. In that case it's pointless to discuss it with you.
China has already captured the world's markets for most categories of goods.
And what do you think the globe-spanning BRI initiative is, if not to develop future markets and find allies?
And I think you're overestimating India.
Whilst India will have more people than China, India looks very much like Brazil which is stuck in the middle-income trap.
In comparison, China looks like the other East Asian Economic Tigers who are all part of the cultural Confucian Sinosphere, and which have all escaped the middle-income trap to become wealthy hi-tech societies.
Just look at the indicators such as education, infrastructure, governance, linguistic/ethnic/religious cohesion, R&D spending etc etc
RT is as effective as it gets when we still live in the liberal international order. I think focusing on countries that are not Anglo-sphere might be a good way to win friends.
Actually, the counterattack by China is very effective. It has neutralized the US offensive of accusing Wuhan lab as the source of the outbreak. The US and Pompeo have even claimed that it is a Chinese bio weapon. China's offensive might create resentment from the Europe but it has effectively ended the US narrative outside of the US sphere of influence. I think it is a small price to pay for debunking the much more sinister accusation from the US.