in other words if we think freedom is better we make it so fucking obvious we live in utopia it’s painful.
China isn’t going to roll over because life is better in the US.
In the end it will come down to power and the ability to project it. You can do that a lot of different ways - politically, economically or militarily, but in the end whether life is better in the US won’t really matter.
The Chinese state won't, but if freedom is really so much better, the people will find ways to escape non-freedom - just like they already do from every country that's obviously worse than the USA and the USA seems powerless to stop - and the Chinese state will have no choice except to become free or suffer brain drain and collapse.
FYI, china has gotten much better at brainwashing over the past 10 years with the new age propaganda machine and increased censorship. Don't act like all this information is public.
China isn’t going to roll over because life is better in the US.
In the end it will come down to power and the ability to project it. You can do that a lot of different ways - politically, economically or militarily, but in the end whether life is better in the US won’t really matter.