"China is the future, do you agree?"

[objection@lemmy.ml]

How would you answer this, and how would you expect Chinese netizens on Xiaohongshu to answer?

I will link to the thread in the comments because I want you to take a moment and think about it first.

[objection@lemmy.ml]

Link

[cowbee@lemmy.ml]

I think it's pretty clear that despite Trump's attempts to revitalize US manufacturing, the US won't be able to outpace China's industrial growth even if they hard pivot. China is, like it or not, almost certainly the next Global Hegemon as the US' grip on the world is falling. Western Europe won't be able to oppose it either.

I think Chinese citizens are generally hopeful for their country, but more than anything I think most of their citizens would want everyone to advance. I don't think any doubt that China will surpass the US.

[amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

the future of neo-colonialism? definitely

[roux@hexbear.net]

If the US doesn't fuck up it's own demise and just dies peacefully, I can see that being the case.

But I think China would use their new powers to help lift other countries up instead of continuing to use the global south as a giant slave plantation like the US is doing.

[lurkerino@hexbear.net]

I want the mandate of heaven to come to all of us.

[lurkerino@hexbear.net]

I want the mandate of heaven to come to all of us.

[cowbee@lemmy.ml]

Can you elaborate?

[ragnarokonline@programming.dev]

I don’t really know anything about China, so I really can’t say.

[achyu@lemmy.sdf.org]

As an Indian, I think they seem more well-planned and more decent than recent USAmerica.
We have border issues, but I do respect them as I agree with their leftist view of reducing poverty and improving education.

[cowbee@lemmy.ml]

It would be a good idea to learn a bit, I think, considering that they will play an increasingly large role on the global stage.

[stovetop@lemmy.world]

I would like to hope no one nation is the future. Replacing one global hegemony with another is not my idea of progress.

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I agree

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[erika3sis@hexbear.net]

For whatever it's worth, despite never formally studying Chinese, I managed to read both the Chinese sentences, albeit with the wrong tones. Like to be fair I have studied Japanese, and I am generally a bit of a weirdo with a knack for this sort of thing — but I do still have to wonder if more people are just going to start casually picking up hanzi just from exposure like I have, as China becomes more prominent. I could certainly see it happening.

"China is the future" is a bit of a vague question, though. I absolutely think that the USA is currently crumbling as the world's hegemon — interestingly enough, the USA's flag actually has stars on it to represent a "new constellation", using the constellations in the sky as an allegory for the rise and fall of nations; so it indeed seems like the fifty-star constellation is beginning to fall beyond the horizon, as a new five-star constellation rises.

This being said, I don't think China's behavior as future hegemon will be the same as the USA's current behavior as present hegemon. I don't necessarily know what to expect from the future, though, so it's probably best to prepare for all possibilities until we gain a clearer understanding of the situation.

[cowbee@lemmy.ml]

Don't know why you're lionizing anti-communist nationalists as the "true China." The KMT were brutal nationalists, just because they preceded the Communists doesn't make siding with far-right nationalists the answer.

[pescetarian@lemmy.ml]

Already!

[cowbee@lemmy.ml]

Looks like I was dead-on, haha.

[ponyofwar@pawb.social]

Taiwan/RoC is not currently ruled by the KMT though. (Nor is today's KMT very comparable to what they were many decades ago)

[cowbee@lemmy.ml]

The KMT is where the origins of RoC as "true China" come from. Outside of the KMT, there are no claims of the RoC as anything resembling a "legitimate heir to China," only the KMT as the former rulers of the mainland.

[taalnazi@lemmy.world]

No thanks, replacing one imperialist for another won't help the world.