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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.
We’re doing this again?
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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.
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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.
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?