You should checkout what the DHS, TSA and NSA have been up to...
>The US/EU will try to maintain their power because to do so is RATIONAL.
What you're getting at, I think, is true. ie - The US/EU are hypocritical. I could respond with, "Well, CHINA is hypocritical." But that wouldn't get us anywhere. The person who commented on nations acting in rational fashions made a comment that actually gets us somewhere.
No, there are no "good guys" here, just a lot of people acting rationally. When looked at in that fashion, the propaganda from both sides is completely understandable.
Also, a lot of it is true.
For instance, you didn't say that China WAS worthy of trust because x, or y, or z.
You said that the US is NOT worthy of trust because x, and y, and z. All likely true, but that doesn't make China any more of a friend to the world than is the US.
Without wars, but with mass internment camps
About 1/4 of prisoners are there because of drugs[1]. Because of the US's punitive drug laws many of these are not dealers but users. In addition, African Americans are much more likely to get "stop and frisked" and get caught with drugs even where whites possess drugs more often[2]. They're also more likely to be arrested for drug offences[2]:
> 16% of those who sold drugs were black, but 49% of those arrested for doing so were black
The disparity in prison population cannot be explained away by crime rate or poverty demographics. It's the result of selective enforcement and preferential treatment for one group over another.
[1] https://www.bjs.gov/content/dcf/duc.cfm
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_the_War_on_Drugs#Stop...
But, they are not very good to their own people and they are extremely distrustful of foreigners. Not just westerners but even in africa they've been caught acting with malicious intentions(the last example I read was how they backdoored the African Union's IT systems). Very hard to trust someone who trusts no one.
The primary fear should be wars and global instability instead of who gets to wear the #1 badge. It has not even been a century since WW2,the current chinese regime is operating as a response to WW2 and "running a marathon,not a sprint" to beat the west and russia. China dominating the west would usher in Cold War 2.0(or has it already,pentagon papers and all) except with higher stakes,in the end military dominance matters as much as economic.