• GlueBear @lemmygrad.ml
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    22 days ago

    And they’re going to do business with the new government anyway. It’s clockwork. Those etim extremists will plan to carve up China. They’ve outright said as much too. Yet China will continue to send strongly worded letters about being “concerned” and “displeased” while vowing to not forget. As they’ve always done whenever the US arms Taiwanese separatists and builds bases to contain them.

    They’re going to learn the hard way that you need to put your foot down at some point. Trade partners≠friends.

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      21 days ago

      I get where you’re coming from but this type of analysis really pisses me off. The Chinese government isn’t ruled by idiots, and terrorism hasn’t been an issue since decades ago. Even within the country hardly anybody thinks Xinjiang is an ‘unstable region’. Western funded insurgence has been a thing since 50’s tibet, and if trading with the west would lead to it magically collapsing it would’ve happened long ago. China is not a fragile state.

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      21 days ago

      I’m not sure why your read of it is that they’re doing nothing but being naive trading partners. They managed to open up trade and build their productive forces, without getting subsumed by imperialism, and have since strengthened ties with other anti-imperialist nations, forming a bloc in BRICS that has the potential to become an alternative multipolar power over the imperialist hegemony. It’s not all said and done, but they have done and are doing a lot without violence and without exploitation. That doesn’t mean they’re pacifists who are incapable of putting boots on the ground.

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      21 days ago

      Sanction turkey and israel to oblivion. It may not be smart but boy will that make me and a lot of people that have witnessed atrocity after atrocity in palestine and now syria feel really good. Let their patrons in DC and London keep printing money for them.

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      20 days ago

      The CPC doesn’t actually want Taiwan, which historically they gave zero fucks about. It’s legacy stuff that they keep repeating because of “face” reasons.