this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
200 points (99.5% liked)
World News
35375 readers
698 users here now
News from around the world!
Rules:
-
Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc
-
No NSFW content
-
No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The "neither Washington nor Beijing" folk always try to draw equivalences even when Trump is tanking the world economy and China is the only one with the means and reason to take a stand. The truth is, China isn't a bully, while the US absolutely is. It isn't China with the hundreds of millitary bases worldwide, it is always China pushing for multilateralism.
Is China perfect? Nope. Is it getting steadily better as the US is steadily getting worse? Undoubtedly. The fact is, Socialism works, and the genocidal settler-colony of the US Empire does everything it can to make people see the PRC as equal to its evil even with the most sophisticated propaganda networks on Earth.
They're both bullies. About 26 million people live in Taiwan and have faced political and military bullying from China for decades. And that's not even mentioning Hong Kong, Xinjiang or Tibet. China tries to play friendly because it wants to create a Pax Sinica to replace America. But at the same time is militarily threatening it's neighbours and claiming the territory of other countries as their own.
Even if you make a choice for a lesser evil. It's still evil.
We’re doing this again?
.
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.
.
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]
(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.
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.
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.
What is Brics ? What's the BRI?
Coerced to choose the US. Like ASML made a killing seeling their machines to China until the US pressured them not to
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?