| ▲ | lenerdenator 3 hours ago |
| Ah, yes, the best way to react to increased authoritarianism in the US is to checks notes begin doing more business with a country that is the final word in authoritarianism. |
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| ▲ | danlugo92 an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Grow up man, we need people to grow up and see the world for what it really is before we can fix it You go against the government (for real) in ANY country you get a bullet, simple as that... That is everywhere... In USA, China, Russia, Paraguay, Laos, or wherever you go look... |
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| ▲ | lenerdenator 9 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Ah, yes. That's how it ended for Joe Biden, right? "It's all the same", just isn't true. If it were, you wouldn't see any conflict. |
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| ▲ | blahblaher 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| the big difference is that China is not bombing anyone, and causing chaos to it's allies.. |
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| ▲ | lenerdenator 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > not bombing anyone Not that they wouldn't bomb Taiwan if they thought they could get away with it. The reason they can't, of course, is that doing so carries the risk of starting a thermonuclear war with the United States. > causing chaos to it's [sic] allies... Well, there's two ways to think about this. 1) China doesn't really have allies. They've a long history of pissing off their neighborhood extending back centuries. 2) They very much are causing chaos to allies, given that the Vietnamese went so far as to buy American military goods to help defend their portion of the South China Sea, which China sees as theirs. | | |
| ▲ | westpfelia 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Not that they wouldn't bomb Taiwan if they thought they could get away with it. There is zero evidence of this. The last time China even engaged in a direct military conflict was the 1970s. Where as even before Trump America could have invaded almost any country on the planet. and it wouldnt have been to shocking. | | |
| ▲ | tgv 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > There is zero evidence of this. Ah, all those exercises are just for fun. | | |
| ▲ | xyzsparetimexyz 6 minutes ago | parent [-] | | No, they're for force projection. The ideal success with Taiwan is to convince them with a hearts and minds play. |
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| ▲ | lenerdenator 10 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | > There is zero evidence of this You're either being willfully obtuse, have very little knowledge of the relations between the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China, or are here to troll. It's absolutely on the CCP's agenda to bring Taiwan under PRC control, by force if necessary. This has been one of their main objectives since the KMT fled to the island when the CCP captured the mainland. [0] The Strait is arguably one of the hottest geopolitical areas on Earth with major implications for pretty much everyone. As far as "direct military conflict", depends on your definition of that. If the PLA is having one of its units regularly attack American or Western digital infrastructure, I'd very much consider that to be an attack, and there's plenty of evidence of that. There have also been border skirmishes with India. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-strait_relations |
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| ▲ | bamboozled 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | They are supporting countries doing the bombing… |
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| ▲ | vrganj 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The best way to handle it is indeed equidistance between the two other poles, positioning oneself as the weight that could tip dominance either way and having the other two trying to woo you. Basically Yugoslavia's foreign policy during the Cold War, but on a much bigger scale. |
