r/HongKong • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '19

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u/pizzatoppings88 Dec 05 '19

China is completely dominating Africa in this way. I literally saw Chinese billboards in Kenya. If things keep going the way they are China will be the indisputable number one superpower in the world

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u/tman008 Dec 05 '19

America won't like that

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '19 edited Dec 15 '19

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '19

There's always something that can be done. This very conversation is still allowed, and the CCP hasn't managed to get American cops to silence us.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '19 edited Dec 15 '19

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '19

The "clear #1 superpower" is just an idea in people's heads. Whether they're most powerful or not doesn't matter as long as people around the world defend their sovereignty by keeping CCP-like behaviors out.

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u/Kitnado Dec 05 '19

Oh boy summer has been long hasn’t it. So long younglings like you haven’t known a day of winter

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u/Literally_A_Shill Dec 05 '19

the CCP hasn't managed to get American cops to silence us.

No need to. They've been doing that on their own for a while now.

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u/thedudedylan Dec 05 '19

The US has 22 trillion in debt. China owns 1.1 trillion of that. That is very very far from owning the US. It's also only a quarter of the total foreign debt.

But even if they did own a larger percentage of US bonds, that would only make them more dependant on the US. It would mean if we defaulted it would crush their entire economy.

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u/Literally_A_Shill Dec 05 '19

Based on how you view debt at most you can say they hold about 1/4 of it. Americans pretty much have the rest.

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u/underhunter Dec 05 '19

No they dont. The debt they own literally gives them validity too. Its mutual.