So my argument that the US is more of a superpower than china...
Do you get your news from RT or something?
Doesn't matter to me if you want to think of the USA as a superpower.
After I was drafted in '69, I noticed that it didn't matter to the North Vietnamese either.
Tell me, who won that war?
For the last dozen years, the USA has been bombing the Middle East.
Tell me, in the Middle East, what has the USA won?
But the cost of that bombing has had an impact on the USA's economy. In the US, the middle class is shrinking. In contrast, China's middle class is growing.
Other people have brought up China's record of human rights abuses. Appropriately so. But how much different is that from the US record concerning Blacks or Indians or other minorities?
I've also alluded to the '
legal but corrupt' process with which the US finances its elections. It's true that China lacks a transparent national election process. But is their process that much less transparent than the USA where unelected special interest groups decide whose campaign gets funded?
Of course, one could argue that the US is the world's largest economy and nothing else matters. Though, that becomes problematic when a government gets captured by special interest groups that care less about the country and more about enriching themselves...
For the last few years, USA has become a very good place for special interests, including those that profit from war. Though, it hasn't been a good place for the middle class.
In the US, "The game is rigged - rigged in favor of those who have money and who have power," ... "Big corporations hire armies of lobbyists to get billion-dollar loopholes into the tax system and persuade their friends in Congress to support laws that keep the playing field tilted in their favor." (
Elizabeth Warren)
With a rigged game and uneven playing field, can the USA legitimately claim moral superiority?
While I wouldn't trust Chinese Politicians, I wouldn't trust American Politicians either. Then again, Chinese Politicians never drafted me into their army so they got that going for them, which is nice...
Superpower, super special interests, super shrinking middle class, whatever...
Uno