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> tampered with elections By that metric the US is most egregious, so is hypocritical to sanction anyone
by sjeohp 8y ago
> tampered with elections
By that metric the US is most egregious, so is hypocritical to sanction anyone
- balls187 8y agoThat's whataboutism. The US being a bad actor doesn't have any bearing on the the bad acting of China, which is being discussed here.
- sjeohp 8y ago> China has done far more egregious transgression to be sanctioned for than Russia That was the initial claim.
- partisan 8y agoUnless it gives China reason to believe that such behavior is acceptable if their position on the world stage is high enough.
- yourbandsucks 8y agoThe Chinese government are mostly smarter than that, and better long-term thinkers. The Russian government has a lot of Putin's ego in it, they make big splashy moves that look like 'exerting power' (ukraine, georgia, US elections). Meanwhile their economy is stagnating and regressing to resource extraction. Why would the Chinese bother stoking tensions in America when we're already so good at it ourselves? "Never interfere with your enemy when he's making a mistake".
- btilly 8y agoI do not see why people are voting this down. The comment is absolutely correct. The discussion was on the faults of China vs Russia. Not on the USA. Election tampering was listed as something that China didn't do, so it is not even on the list of things we are trying to criticize China for. Why, then, are alleged past American misdeeds coming up? We can focus on them in a different discussion about the USA. They neither explain nor excuse the economic and currency manipulations that China has been engaged in.
- nomoremaos 8y agoYea - ever live in China? If not - then you don’t know squat.