Everything is not black and white. There is a spectrum and let us not pretend that China is close to most democratic countries on this scale.

> let us not pretend that China is close to most democratic countries on this scale.

Why not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...

Read your own link and see how it disappears as time progresses. You can't say the same for China.

https://qz.com/906142/a-chinese-medical-study-is-being-retra...

They are conducting ethical cleansing right now.

As bad as the US is in many different ways, China is immeasurably worse. A future dominated by a hegemonic China would be a dark world. Little steps like these are helping to contribute to that possibility in 50-100 years.

If current trends prevail, it's inevitable. When all else is equal, won't the largest countries dominate?

Great powers historically have not usually been the largest countries population-wise. That would seem to indicate that there's no reason we should expect the inevitability of all else becoming equal.

> Do you equate the Chinese to nazis?

No, I emphatically do not. That's the most false and inflammatory misreading of my comment possible. The Chinese people are not villains, full stop.

The point I was making is that political regimes matter when it comes to the desire for progress in science and technology, and the idea that it doesn't is naive. I'm glad the Nazis and the Soviets were technically and scientifically behind the Allies and the West, and I think the world would be better off they had stayed even further behind -- even if that meant that humanity as a whole has its scientific and technical progress retarded for the want of their contributions.

Remember when Bush said Saddam aided "al Qaeda-like organizations"?

People just heard al Qaeda.