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Some funny AI memes, showing what will happen after China retaliates against trump's tariffs,

I think he's already backed down.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cde2z6jpzp8o

Chinese memes are actually funny

I don't like memes much in general, but I'd probably prefer Chinese to Deep South. Somehow there seems to be a bit more grace in the Chinese type.

I myself wouldn't. Chinese government has shown itself to be imperial and authoritarian toward people/countries it now has expanded into.

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Wouldn't what?

Oh sorry I thought you said you would rather be (I inserted ruled) by China, didn't realise you were talking about memes.

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. I asked a Chinese guy at work once if China did socialism, and he laughed. I took that as a "no."

I spoke to an Old Chinese man who was a Sunday school teacher back in the early 1980s during the dawn of China's transition to capitalism. He told me China is a society that works in a time frame of centuries. It adopted communism as as both a shield against western and Japanese imperialism and the Chinese who were puppets of the west and to overthrow the old feudal system that held China back from innovation. He articulately explained the period from 1948-1982 was an incubation period for China to consolidate. China uses western political tools for its own purposes. It is neither capitalist or socialist, its nationalist. Ironically when China sent Admiral Zheng He in the 1300s to explore the world outside of China, the well equipped navy could easily have conquered and colonised the lands they visited in Asia middle east and Africa. Instead the emperor was on a fact finding mission to see first hand the lands where China traded and collect data. Once the mission served its purpose the huge navy was scuttled and the emperor closed it's borders to trade only. In 2025 China is on a springboard to take over the globe. It only took several centuries. Meanwhile Americans and the west operate on 4 year cycles

Funny how every government wants to rule the world as soon as they think they're in with a chance.

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There was also a regime change in that period. The guys who were in favour of exploring and reaching out were aligned with a bloc that fell out of favour when the power structure changed. Once they fell from favour they were no longer able to direct resources towards the cause of exploration.

There was that too. Both China, Korea and Japan have historically bn isolationist, guarding their secrets like gunpowder, silk making and paper. It took a foreign leader Kublai Khan to open the east to foreign merchants.