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As a non-US nor Chinese national, I find it interesting how the US keeps creating these artificial enemies. Of course the Chinese are not pro-America but they a

by aclsid 7y ago

As a non-US nor Chinese national, I find it interesting how the US keeps creating these artificial enemies. Of course the Chinese are not pro-America but they are very much self-contained and just interested in making money. Aside from internal old and new revolutions, China have also had a long history of not invading other countries. I can understand that the US feels threatened by the massive competition created on the other side, but this is very rapidly leading to a similar situation like the anti-Japanese mentality that ended up stigmatizing a whole swath of people based on ethnicity alone.

freyr 7y ago
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- bcatanzaro 7y ago
  Yup. Lots of sleight-of-hand in this claim. China does have a long history of invading other countries, but they try to suppress knowledge of it. That’s why they’re so hypersensitive about the definition of China, because they’re hiding their present and former invasions. Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan, all the islands inside the vague nine-dashed line... Even border disputes with India.
  - CharlesColeman 7y ago
    > China does have a long history of invading other countries, but they try to suppress knowledge of it. China doesn't invade other countries, it just discovers inseparable parts of China.
- DiogenesKynikos 7y ago
  > Read up on what's happening today in Africa and Afghanistan. Or the many examples of state-sponsored corporate espionage and hacking. Are these not forms of invasion in 2019? I do recall a couple of countries invading Afghanistan, none of them named "China." If you're going to call building railroads, highways, power plants and other infrastructure in Africa an "invasion," that's just plain unreasonable. I get that you may find the amount of debt African nations are taking on troubling, but it's dangerous hyperbole to call this sort of thing an "invasion."
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  - throw0101a 7y ago
    On the debt: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-trap_diplomacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-trap_diplomacy

by aclsid 7y ago

freyr 7y ago

bcatanzaro 7y ago
Yup. Lots of sleight-of-hand in this claim. China does have a long history of invading other countries, but they try to suppress knowledge of it. That’s why they’re so hypersensitive about the definition of China, because they’re hiding their present and former invasions. Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan, all the islands inside the vague nine-dashed line... Even border disputes with India.
- CharlesColeman 7y ago
  > China does have a long history of invading other countries, but they try to suppress knowledge of it. China doesn't invade other countries, it just discovers inseparable parts of China.
DiogenesKynikos 7y ago
> Read up on what's happening today in Africa and Afghanistan. Or the many examples of state-sponsored corporate espionage and hacking. Are these not forms of invasion in 2019? I do recall a couple of countries invading Afghanistan, none of them named "China." If you're going to call building railroads, highways, power plants and other infrastructure in Africa an "invasion," that's just plain unreasonable. I get that you may find the amount of debt African nations are taking on troubling, but it's dangerous hyperbole to call this sort of thing an "invasion."
- deleted 7y ago
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- throw0101a 7y ago
  On the debt: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-trap_diplomacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-trap_diplomacy