r/neoliberal • u/Independent-Low-2398 • Oct 08 '24

America is losing South-East Asia to China News (Asia)

https://www.economist.com/asia/2024/10/03/america-is-losing-south-east-asia-to-china
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u/SolarMacharius562 NATO Oct 08 '24

I mean it really is hard to blame them on point three though, the fact of the matter is that US support for Israel is pretty hypocritical given our rhetoric towards China on similar stuff

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u/Daddy_Macron Emily Oster Oct 08 '24

There was one guy in the Discussion Thread that would take articles about Israeli treatment of the Palestinians, and replace all references to Israel with China and references to Palestinians with Uyghurs. And then he would tell people he did that after people initially responded, and let's just say you saw some record setting speed at moving the goalpost. Went from bomb Beijing to Israel is actually justified in doing this real fast.

It was honestly some King shit, but he stopped doing it, probably because of all the heat he was getting. I wish I had saved his profile.

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u/SolarMacharius562 NATO Oct 08 '24

Putting it bluntly though, I do increasingly wonder if support for Israel to this extent makes sense even from a purely realpolitik perspective; I feel like it's increasingly isolating us even from core allies if you look at UN voting patterns and the like. Not to mention I worry about its impacts on future US ability to curry multinational support in any sort of future Southeast Asia conflict, which I feel like is far more core to our national interests.

Between increasing domestic petroleum production and the renewables transition, I just don't see how sinking so much political capital into the Middle East makes sense any more