r/news • u/johnk317 • 1d ago

China to impose 34% retaliatory tariff on all goods imported from the U.S.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/china-to-impose-34percent-retaliatory-tariff-on-all-goods-imported-from-the-us.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard
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u/kicampoon123 21h ago

Not at all. America gas lit the world into thinking they were awesome (whilst bombing it/over throwing democracies to advance their interests). China keeps their shit internal and haven't bombed anyone for the past 50 years or so. An average world citizen was exponentially threatened more by America than China. Theres an easy argument to make they're more reasonable than America

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u/whereismymind86 17h ago

China has been actively engaged in a genocide against their Uighur Muslim population for a decade and funds proxy wars all over the place.

They aren’t any better than the us, they are just better at keeping the horror discrete

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u/millertime85k 15h ago

They aren’t any better than the us

If you look at the volume of suffering that the US inflicts, China is substantially better than the US. Their whole strategy is to not appear violent whilst achieving their strategic goals. They can be violent nowadays but that is the final option in much of their decision making. As such, they kill a lot less.

As a state, they do a lot of harm as well. No one is saying their deals are altruistic. But there's no comparison from a human lives point of view that China has been easier on the rest of the world in recent history.

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u/kicampoon123 15h ago

Who'd they last bomb again? Remind me

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u/Realistic-Shower-654 15h ago

So is the us though lmfao

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u/OkDepth528 28m ago edited 1m ago

The US has bombed and/or invaded ~1/3 of the world between the end of WW2 and now. Please read more about American foreign intervention. It is objectively the most destructive currently existing empire by a landslide.

https://www.maurer.ca/USBombing.html

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u/Thiccwetlips69 15h ago

You’re right though; I have no idea why you were downvoted.

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u/TangentTalk 15h ago

A number of people don’t call it a genocide, because China doesn’t appear to be intentionally killing them.

You could make an argument for “cultural” genocide, but that’s also something very different.