• bunbun@lemmygrad.ml
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    Holy fucking copium. The entire thing is “we’re only interested in our national and strategic interests, but that’s actually good for both parties”.

    The year began with the relationship at a historic low point. A year ago this week, a Chinese spy balloon traveled across the United States

    Lmao

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    We also saw something that really stood out, which is that the PRC believed the United States was in terminal decline — that our industrial base had been hollowed out, that our commitment to our allies and partners had been undercut, that the United States was struggling to manage a once-in-a-century pandemic, and that many in Beijing were openly proclaiming that “the East was rising and the West was falling.”

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      This sounds like a prelude to announce their new strategy. But the strategy seems already clear - they called Taiwan their “important military ally”, an incredible provocation. So they are going to try to do the same to China they did to Russia, encircle them on all sides, set a trap, until they lash out. Then they are the bad guys. Hopefully China is smarter than Russia though. But they can’t let Taiwan become an “actively” hostile military outpost of the US right on their doorstep. But I don’t really know what moves either side can realistically make since the economic dependencies are quite strong.

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        The US will lose in a fight against China over Taiwan. And after Ukraine and Gaza most of the world will not care about its sobbing, they will not believe the west’s claims of standing for this or that and they will stand with China. All they will succeed in doing in instigating a conflict with China is bringing out into the open the new cold war.

        It’s not desirable. It’s not optimal, it threatens chaos and all kinds of untold consequences but it is probably much more manageable now that it was before Gaza and Ukraine.

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    These Dept of State ghouls always parrot the same line that somehow China is cheating and it’s unfair. Quote: “all while addressing the PRC’s non-market practices”

    It’s fucking hilarious they can’t seem to grasp that there are no rules here and that somehow China kicking their ass is just so unfair and cheating. Like what you gonna do, take your ball and go home?

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    Depending on how you’re counting, China is 10x older than the US. It takes a special kind of naivety to think that the nephew can get one over on the uncle.