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[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Really? You call a person literally threatening China and now sitting across the table a pacifist? You got a weird definition there buddy. I'll take the side of the country that hasn't been involved in a conflict for over 40 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Yeah, nobody in the EU is going to war with China, but its tech dominance (as the US's) poses a challenge to how the countries organize themselves. You confuse The EU with the west, but if the US abandoned NATO, would China abandon russia? I don't think so. So China's backstop of russia is a direct threat to the EU, whereas the EU is not direct threat to China without going through the US.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Did you not understand, that's exactly the offer China is giving the EU in this statement. Abandon the US and we can talk about abandoning Russia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The EU can't abandon the US first, more likely that the US would abandon the EU... damn...this is like couples' therapy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Ok, we were talking about why China said what they said. It's not some evil reason or an excuse to invade Taiwan. It's simply if your going to threaten us as next, then we will support Russia. Whatever reason the EU has to not abandon the raving lunatic in USA is not China's problem.