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[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ah you're a reactionary spouting tofu dreg and other nonsense. You should try look into things outside your nationalist bubble.

Edit:

“I am not at all calling China’s capabilities low in terms of creating a war machine.”

China’s comparative advantage over the past forty years has been poverty eradication, infrastructure build-out, electrification, and industrial capacity. Reducing that to militarism is either ignorance or bad faith. Where's your high speed rail? Where are your clean streets? Why is your literacy so low? Why do you have so many shanty towns? Why do your tech expos have to pretend Chinese tech is Indian invented?

“India is what sends the disaster relief resources…”

India administers those territories. Of course it sends relief? Are you an idiot?

“China considers blocking natural resources…”

There is no evidence that China has cut off Brahmaputra flow to manufacture discontent. The projects are run-of-river. Seasonal fluctuations are monsoon-driven. You are asserting intent without evidence. That is speculation.

“China took longer to admit air-quality problems…”

China’s PM2.5 levels have declined substantially since 2013 after aggressive regulatory intervention. India today has multiple cities ranking among the most polluted globally by annual average concentration. If the metric is environmental turnaround after crisis recognition, China’s trend line is steeper. You are ignoring trajectory and focusing on narrative.

“Actual quality of buildings…”

“Tofu dreg” is a meme, not a dataset. China has built the largest high-speed rail network on earth, thousands of kilometers of expressways, and entire metropolitan regions within two decades. Failures exist, as in India, collapsed bridges, unsafe housing, infrastructure accidents. Anecdotes do not overturn macro-level engineering capacity.

“Destruction of values… erosion of older values… normal people coming out of China…”

I bet you love those caste values as you beat those dalits to keep them in line.