Balance of Power

So, I woke up today, to find Vaush covering Hasan trip over his tongue and somehow get knotted up in it on Leftovers as Ethan was probing him on the matter of China and Taiwan. And I think I have to preface this by saying ... 'whatever Vaush would say' - except ... maybe more to the point I guess. But therein eventually lies the problem. Which may or may not be a critique against Vaush, but to not dance around the bush too much I'll take the side of Hasan on this - prefaced by saying that I don't think I'll disagree with what Vaush has to say on the matters of fact about this.
I'd be - or I am - biased to side with Vaush on this, including the confusion over why Hasan would fumble the ball so hard. But there are certain things that don't sit well with me. Then again, that's an issue that might take us to matters of holocaust denial ... facts and feelings ... without a lot of ground to stand on. ... or ... any ground to stand on.

There was a sentence however, or two or so, coming from hasan, which is like one of those few 'islands' - like the many little mandelbrot blobs found in what would at first appear to be space outside of the set itself.
I'll put it this way: I wouldn't want to find myself in a situation, where a choice between the USA and China is required. Or what things came down to. Given how things are. And the issue Hasan wants to get to, given and taken, "I think", is that on our side of things, news and stuff are biased towards the USA. A lot of that may be rational, but that bias certainly lends itself to the defense of the less agreeable properties - even if only indirectly - of the USA. The thing mostly is, that it's difficult to find reasonable biases the other way - outside of having an anti USA bias. And that's not any better. Ontop of that are we living in a globalist reality; And due to that we should have a globalist bias - which is where China and their territorial claims weigh against the USA being possibly a more friendly and cooperative entity. Yet may it be the proverbial Wolf in Sheeps clothing - and thus it may be prudent for China to not be a Sheep. Shoop?
But that's why we're uneasy about China. I mean - same as with russia - a lot of their conduct seems to be driven by Paranoia; And I have to think that we don't have clear insight into how justified that is.

What I can say is, that China - as governed by the CCP - accomplished a lot on terms of being an independent Global player; Wrestling itself out of the hegemonial western Chokehold. And that arguably does have some positive effect on its citizens - at least in terms of wealth. If 'developing Democratic nations' - like Russia maybe - are an indicator of how much this free market thing works out for them; We can say that they did well. Which is my attempt at finding the good in it.
It sure is similar to defending Russia on the matter of Ukraine, or the USA on matters of ... Vietnam (among others) - which is to say: in hindsight we have to acknowledge mistakes as misstakes and cut our losses with the lessons learned.

It seems though, that the USA has (and possibly tries it's best to maintain it) a hegemonial rule over the free market - and by virtue of that, the globalist status quo; And thus it's capitalist, neo libertarian tendencies.


... to be iterated upon ... eventually