• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    The actions aren’t the same, though, and I explained and elaborated on why. You never engaged with it, but glossed over it.

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      3 days ago

      They are buying resources, their companies are operating there selling their products, extracting resources, having manufacturing, they’re importing their products to those countries. Those are the same.

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        3 days ago

        No, they are not at all the same, and I explained why already. To put it another way, the average Chinese person lives off of far more Chinese labor, while the average person in the West lives off of far more Global South labor.

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            3 days ago

            China builds up countries it deals with, the West keeps them underdeveloped and over-exploited. I already showed how that is, so I will not copy and paste what I already did.

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              3 days ago

              Somehow China doing the exact same business is mutually beneficial trade to uplift them both and Finland doing that business is imperialistic exploitation. Come on now friend.

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                  2 days ago

                  You claimed so and your point was that China is just built different (but the actions are actually same). That’s what makes this amusing.

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                    2 days ago

                    My point has never been that their actions are the same. You boiled down complex relations to simple “trade,” when the complexities and directions make it entirely different in outcome. That’s like saying a surgeon and a knife-murderer are the same, because they both cut people.