I can see the point though.
The CCP’s philosophy is pretty “So what, we’re winning. Cry about it lol.”
A great example is how we used to do a lot of recycling stateside. They "economy of scale"d it to death and suddenly recycling stateside was no longer worth it and most of it closed up. Now recycled goods aren’t worth much to them either so they’re like “Oh well who cares.” and it never recovered.
So if we compromise first, they’ll likely want to take advantage. If they compromise, they’re probably convinced (perhaps rightly so), that we’ll do some underhanded thing to pull power from them instead.
It’s utterly ridiculous seeing as we share a planet, but, yeah…
Well it’s more of tragedy of the commons situation than a game of chicken.
How many times do you hear someone say “why should we change if CHINA is going to keep on polluting the air?”
I just counter with, “who’s the leaders of the world? Is China the world leader and we can’t doing anything until they do it first?”
I can see the point though. The CCP’s philosophy is pretty “So what, we’re winning. Cry about it lol.”
A great example is how we used to do a lot of recycling stateside. They "economy of scale"d it to death and suddenly recycling stateside was no longer worth it and most of it closed up. Now recycled goods aren’t worth much to them either so they’re like “Oh well who cares.” and it never recovered.
So if we compromise first, they’ll likely want to take advantage. If they compromise, they’re probably convinced (perhaps rightly so), that we’ll do some underhanded thing to pull power from them instead.
It’s utterly ridiculous seeing as we share a planet, but, yeah…