I personally see no difference between the two except they're both fighting to be the world superpower and China is really stepping in to take that role from a USA in distress.

Has China done that?

Yes, tell me more about what the US did in the Philippines.

That’s my point. Don’t try and deflect.

And those places have a quite positive views of America.

> In 2018, two-thirds (67%) see the U.S. positively, up 10 percentage points from 2017.

> But the Japanese public has less esteem for America than do Filipinos (83%) and South Koreans (80%).

I know Vietnam has one of the most pro-American viewpoints of any country. Last poll I saw had >90% holding a positive view of the US.

China has not typically gone beyond their own historical borders, and when they have, it is miniscule compared to how the U.S. has.

Want more examples?

Yes the US has done bad things. But there are degrees of bad things and I would argue China has done worst things and continues to do so.

Try being a minority religion in China too...

The Taliban killed approximately zero Iraqis (you may be confusing al-Qaeda with the Taliban, and the group that after the war temporarily adopted the name “al-Qaeda in Iraq”, before becoming the Islamic State—that erupted into a major force because of the American mismanagement of the post-invasion occupation, most notably the almost entirely unmanaged demobilization of the security services—with al-Qaeda itself. Americans killed a lot themselves, as well as launching an unprovoked war of aggression which produced the context in which many others were killed beyond those Americans killed directly. But all of those deaths are America's fault and responsibility, even those that are also someone else’s fault and responsibility.