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Chinese (tourist?) visits the Taliban, unsurprisingly they can be kind to foreigners who aren't there to murder and SA their families (x.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net to c/videos@hexbear.net

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It's missing the trademark scary music and delusional reporter looking terrified (also I doubt the subtitles are accurate at every moment).

Obviously extrapolating to an entire country that the Chinese have a better chance of building bridges around the world from one person would be a mistake, but China does have a better chance of building bridges than we ever will and I take this video as a reflection of Chinese culture honestly.

You can't make a country improve their human rights problems and modernize if you sanction them and then bomb them to the ground. More power to China, and a giant middle finger to all the libs who don't remember Afghanistan or China exists unless it's to make the lives of their people more miserable in any way possible. Biden stole (a billion? 8 billion?) dollars from Afghanistan when they were struggling in the aftermath of an earthquake; the people's lives only became worse for it.

But please libs, please tell me all about how China's not trying to cooperate with the world out of principle; yeah, much better that our government should just bomb millions of people to death than countries should make the world a better place for selfish reasons. Libs aren't just a death cult, it's a very idiotic death cult.

(Quick note: I've no idea of the OP's political leanings; I follow him because I'm curious about Russia-Ukraine situation. He's probably unfortunately reactionary)

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wow a chinese person and the taliban, two people that would kill an american without a second's hesitation scared

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

based

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Taliban and China have reasonably good working relationships for things like infrastructure planning. The problem is that often when deals have been in the works ISIS-K suddenly pop up and do terror attacks. Same with Chinese investment in Pakistan too before the coup. soviet-hmm

[–] iie@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

often when deals have been in the works ISIS-K suddenly pop up and do terror attacks

do you have any examples off the top of your head? that's something I'd like to look into

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

The first one that comes to mind is the Kabul hotel attack in 2022.

There was a pretty serious uptick in attacks on China-related targets like power projects in Pakistan too before the coup.

But ISIS released a video statement officially making China a target and promising the ramped up attacks back in 2017, and there was already crossover with ETIM (East Turkestan Islamic Movement - the name China gives a broader network of terror groups in the region, often focusing on China and Xinjiang) and TIP (Turkestan Islamic Party) the 'political' face of the groups who are designated a terrorist group by everyone except America, allegedly because it makes it easier for them to use TIP to funnel money and wrapons to the overlapping ISIS-K groups.

[–] WilsonWilson@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago

yeah lord bebo is the russian version of matt walsh but then almost all russians on twitter are bad so not much you can do about it if you want non western info about the war.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

i think this sort of 'taliban gawking' is weird, you wouldn't bike into a random military outpost (though you probably can in many contexts) in other countries to chat up militiamen/gendarmerie but because of this notion that the Taliban were this great evil there's a spectacle in a reveal that these low level joes are normal people.

honestly maybe i don't like the idea of including random people you meet in travelblogging generally, it feels wrong to publicize and monetize somebody's hospitality that was for you, not your camera and followers. but i particularly don't like the flavor of Taliban ones because they're implicating you as the audience in the notion that these guys they're going to meet are supposed to be savage and dangerous

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

"Afghanis are hospitable to guests" should be the least surprising thing in all of history, ever.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

Nice that the guoren's learned the other's language..., huh