Odd how you go from Caitlin's sentence one can read above:

"Normal person: China's misdeeds have been greatly exaggerated by western propaganda and the US is quantifiably far more murderous and destructive." -Caitlin

to ...

"You seem to suggest China is without aspirations of global dominance..." -T Paine

And then you conclude a false equivalency between China and the US. I mean, for starters Mr. Paine: just compare the military budgets of China versus the US. I mean FOR FUCKS SAKE.