• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    We’re doing this again?

    About 26 million people live in Taiwan and have faced political and military bullying from China for decades.

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    Hong Kong

    The UK’s 99 year lease to subjugate Hong Kong ended, yes. A lease which had been forced upon Imperial China at gunpoint during the century of humiliation. Hong Kong reintegration after the lease expired was a foregone conclusion. The last minute, US-backed attempt at color revolution failed.

    Xinjiang

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    Tibet

    I’m pretty sure virtually all of the Tibetan people are happy to no longer be suffering under theocratic feudalism. Happy to no longer be illiterate serfs and slaves, suffering depredation under a god-king. I doubt many of them are sad that CIA asset Dalai “suck my tongue” Lama is in exile. [1] [2]

    But at the same time is militarily threatening it’s neighbours

    (n.b. the maps are a bit dated, as the US has since pulled out of Afghanistan.)

    Forward-defense ring: a perfectly normal and not at all Orwellian term of art. Meanwhile China has one foreign base in Djibouti for anti-piracy of Red Sea transport.

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      The PRC has broken the One China principle a long time ago under Xi when he asserted the PRC as the only China with Taiwan as part of it’s territory. Also Taiwan is full of embassies which are just renamed to business development bureaus to keep the CCP from whining. The lack of recognition is a ultimately a problem on paper only. The only reason a country don’t recognize Taiwan is because the PRC will diplomatically retaliate.

      China’s inability to make allies and it’s antagonistic stance towards it’s neighbours is just making those countries choose the US. Instead of China becoming a better alternative it’s instead driving them away and is blaming the US for their own policy mistakes. It’s like Putin crying about NATO on it’s borders but at the same time giving those old soviet satellite states more and more reasons to join NATO. And then blaming NATO for the consequences of his own bad behaviour.

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        I think China and other countries should build a bunch of embassies disguised as Business development bureaus in eastern Germany and supply them with weapons and violate the One Germany principle. The only reason acountries don’t recognize eastern Germany is because the German federal government will diplomatically retaliate.

        China’s inability to make allies

        What is Brics ? What’s the BRI?

        countries choose the US

        Coerced to choose the US. Like ASML made a killing seeling their machines to China until the US pressured them not to

        It’s like Putin crying about NATO on it’s borders but at the same time giving those old soviet satellite states more and more reasons to join NATO. And then blaming NATO for the consequences of his own bad behaviour.

        NATO is a market for privately owned weapons manufacturers and thus subject to market forces like the drive to expansion and lobbying by those groups. Did you check Rheinmetalls stock, naziboy?