• Serinus@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Rival is better than enemy, but yes. We’re as friendly with China as we are enemies. It’s complicated, but I don’t want the simple version to be the narrative.

      • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        They’re not a rival. They’re a hostile power.

        We are both dependent on each other because that’s how the global economy works, but we are not friends and there is no possible path to friendship unless one of our countries has an extremely bloody revolution and completely changes our mechanism of government.

        Our core ideologies are not compatible.