Lift billions from poverty
Invested in Africa when no one would turning a lot of their countries around
Lifted the world's economy when the US was tanking
I am just baffled by conservatives who hate China but think Russia is somehow better, China's not perfect but it is an economic machine that we can get a lot from, Russia is a fading power. If we want to think strategically we should focus on being friendnemies with the people who have money not the one who is broke.
The only thing I find really interesting about this mindset, as a non-American, is that you believe that China is wrong for spreading their area of influence on neutral waters when you believe your country's navy has the right to enforce whatever you call "playing nice" and "following the law" on foreign, sovereing nations.
China is wrong, but it aint doing anything that the US hasn't been doing for a long time. It is not the US's place to fix this situation. For me, it looks less like the US is worried about China's wrongdoings, and more like it is worried that China is taking a bite out of its cake.
The UK will be too engulfed by Brexit to concern itself with international affairs, China's version of TPP will force the entire region to play nice with them. The US is staying out of all this and just gave the middle finger to Indonesia and Japan by pulling out of TPP and now wants to renegotiate NAFTA (who wants to make trade deals with people who can't keep their word). I think this is what we call check mate, the Trump presidency is Christmas, birthday and new year all rolled into one for the Chinese.
Yet nothing is being done with israel and the illegal settlements or russian taking over parts of ukraine! Interresting.
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
The problem with bilateral treaties is that they aren't worth the paper they're printed on, since either side could simply breach the agreement at any time and there wouldn't be anything the other country could do about it because there isn't a third party they could appeal to enforce compliance. In fact, this is sort of the point, and this was exploited time and time again by European powers to swindle natives out of land and resources in return for promises they had no intention of ever keeping. This exploitation is largely the reason we have done away with the great power diplomacy of years past and moved toward a more rules based international order.