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China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.

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[–] crackajack@reddthat.com 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plenty of people would raise their eyebrows on you for mentioning the US, but you would not exactly be wrong. China and Russia are authoritarian. However, the US is a highly flawed democracy with extremely flawed and abusive foreign policy. Putin's invasion of Ukraine has had recent precedence, with US invading Iraq out of trumped up charges. In Putin's mind, he must have thought "if the Americans did it, why can't I"? This is why I believe in a multipolar world.

[–] Legendsofanus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From a total noob: what is a multipolar world in political terms?

[–] crackajack@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Multipolar means there are more than two influential/great power. Personally, I think this is better than the current state of US being the sole superpower, or during the cold war when there was two rival superpowers. However, some people argue that a multipolar world is not more stable (it led to World War I). I'm not an expert myself, but since we've got more democracies now than the time before World War I, I would argue that a multipolar world composed of mostly democratic countries might work.