You might feel different if you're a palestinian who's getting american bombs dropped on him, or an afghani collateral damage or...

There is no good guys in general, and whataboutism and making the scope bigger doesn't help.

The thing is that if the models you are building on are open source whether hosted on chinese / american / whatever service at least give you an option to switch provider easier vs a fable / chatgpt 5.6 that gets banned for none americans etc...

2 years ago america would have had the branding/perception advantage but right now that is well and truly gone...

More what aboutism American Indians, Aborigines, Māori, Sami, New Caledonia, the Kanak people what do they all have in common? Sent to re-education camps at some point in time, some of them sterilized, And all treated his second class citizens. One of the reasons most countries are relatively quiet about the Chinese is that so many other countries have indigenous people that were treated pretty much the same at some point in time in their history…

Stop pretending there’s some type of moral high ground there isn’t. Disgusting.

> or a Ukrainian soldier who has to deal with drones built with Chinese components

man you're gonna be disappointed when you learn where the components for Ukrainian drones come from (spoiler alert, it's China 95% of Ukrainian drone manufacturers use Chinese components. Both Ukrainian and Russian drones are Chinese components glued together, the vendors in China literally stagger Russian and Ukrainian buyers on the factory floors to not have them run into each other). The largest trade partner of Vietnam and the Phillipines is China.

The kind of thinking that assumes that rivalry implies deglobalization or bloc politics is exactly what's 30 years out of date. It's projecting how Americans think on the entire world, but that's not how the world works any more. The rest of the world continues to globalize, even through war.

America is undergoing Sovietization and erecting an Iron Curtain, and China ironically enough is simply doing what the US used to do. If Americans think the rest of the world will follow them into isolation they're going to make the same discovery the Russians did in the last century.

> Or, on a more local note, an Australian automotive worker who worked for a company that figured out 10 years ago that they wouldn't be able to pay him a decent wage, compete with the then-upcoming Chinese EVs, and remain profitable.

I don't understand what your point is? This seems like a perfect example of comparative advantage - Australia can produce iron ore cheaper than anywhere else in the world and even when China launched a trade war against Australia the Australian economy kept growing.

There wasn't even any bump in unemployment from the closing of the car industry.

Once that trade war was settled, Australia got cheaper cars, China got cheaper iron ore and both economies won.

The rational behavior on both parts there is in stark contrast to current US policy, which is unpredictable and capricious.

> You might feel differently if you were a Filipino or Vietnamese fisherman whose family relied on the income from the stocks of the South China Sea, or a Uighur person living in Western China, or a Ukrainian soldier who has to deal with drones built with Chinese components, or a democracy advocate in Hong Kong, or arguably, a person who had plans for 2020-2021.

This seems like a random list of complaints about China and I agree with them in general.

I think you'll find most major powers have similar complaints. There certainly are against the US - I think you might find that both the Philippines and Vietnam(!) have fairly mixed feelings about the US for example.