Yes this. China's leadership is pretty evil and clearly a danger to the world but not insane.

> China's leadership is pretty evil and clearly a danger to the world

Is this how Americans are coping with their civilizatory down fall and vanishing hegemony?

I'm not American. And no, I think America is falling down even more, it is clearly morally and ethically bankrupt. The only thing it has going for it is money but I think this will decline too as goodwill is important too and Trump is burning all that to the ground.

Can you elaborate?

Uyghurs, Tibet, and Taiwan, for starters. Taiwan in particular could become a conflict if push came to shove. Hard to say. (No nation will go to bat for the Uyghurs or Tibet, though.)

You need to refresh the latest propaganda Codex, those topics are so last decade.

He's not wrong though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-strait_relations#Deterio...

It doesn't change the fact, that as an European I really wish we had a better relationship with China and ditched US and their backward policies. It's OK to point out atrocities made by big empires, they are all guilty anyway.

Are the Hong Kong protests recent enough for you? Disappearing college kids from street rallies?

China’s leadership is pragmatic, transparent, mature.

The US has an open media and the western world internet is a non-stop airing of the US's dirty laundry.

China has only state media and little internet overlap with the west.

From the POV of your typical western internet denizen, The US elected a dictator to burn the country to the ground, while China is building a utopia where the fruits are free for everyone.

They have state media but we don't consume those.

I certainly don't see our european media to be pro-China. The Uyghur issues are major criticism. Also the way they treated their citizens during the pandemic and the protests.

Let's not waste time pretending the US is doing something on the same level as what China is doing to the Uighyr.

Imagine for a minute that Trump were a lot smarter, and also ran the supreme court and congress, and you'll basically have Xi.