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For them miserable fucks to vote for the Democrat candidate.
For China to stop being a fucking asshole and start being a world leader instead. They would be handed the title so easily if they just did the bare minimum of a powerful, civilized country.
Those things are literally all they would need to do. We would drop USA like a sack of rotten potatoes.
Blaming China for the US being a shitshow is hilariously stupid
VGA meant to say that China would replace the US if they acted better. VGA is not blaming China for the US.
However I will assign a little blame to China for Trump because TikTok helped get Trump elected. I strongly suspect that there was a backroom deal between TikTok/China and Trump prior to the 2024 election.
This article is the most damning: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-tiktok-courted-conservatives-before-trumps-win (archive/non-paywall: https://archive.is/TUjo9)
I hate the way they worded that. What they really mean is allowing the big lie (false claims the 2020 election was rigged) and transphobia.
See: https://www.theverge.com/politics/656717/trump-tiktok-ban-maga-influencers (archive link: https://archive.is/DMOLf)
Also see: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maga-republicans-defend-tiktok-conservative-platform-fate-hangs-balance-supreme-court (archive link: https://archive.is/RGBC8)
Also see: https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-courts-john-bolton-politics-donald-trump-8a7ff9c4e60678aafcd7f430e49196ea
China fundamentally can't be the world leader as it's incompatible with the rest of the world it would have to lead. Here we are talking about this on american led internet - not Chinese great firewall. The only thing people want from China is the stuff they make not the Chinese culture or leadership.
The reason why US is so successful at leading the world because it's basically a giant haven for other world cultures which makes it easy to integrate anywhere.
China doesn't necessarily have to lead to control. Look at their investments in Africa over the past decade. The US stopped investing in developing nations so China took the lead over the fastest developing continent. They'll have a ton of influence there for a generation at least, will be able to secure deals and lock the US out of them.