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> China has clear ambitions to be the world's superpower >> That is not clear to me. @worik >>> The “dispute” regarding the construction of 11 Chinese buildin
by imchillyb 5y ago
> China has clear ambitions to be the world's superpower
>> That is not clear to me. @worik
>>> The “dispute” regarding the construction of 11 Chinese buildings on the Nepali side of the territory in Humla came to the fore after Indian newspapers reported Chinese encroachment in June 2020...
>>> The most recent skirmish - on 20 January - left troops on both sides injured. It took place along the border in India's Sikkim state, which is sandwiched between Bhutan and Nepal. The year 2020 was particularly violent. The June clash in the Galwan Valley - fought with sticks and clubs, not guns - was the first fatal confrontation between the two sides since 1975. India acknowledged its deaths. China did not comment on reports it also suffered fatalities.
>>> Malaysia has said it has summoned China’s ambassador to protest against the “presence and activities” of Chinese vessels in Kuala Lumpur’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea off the island of Borneo. Chinese vessels, including a survey boat, were operating off the coasts of the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak in contravention of 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement late on Monday.
>>> China's growing economic footprint in Ukraine may already be producing geopolitical consequences that put the country at odds with core European priorities. Zelensky decided earlier this year to withdraw Ukraine's condemnation of Chinese government crimes against the Uighurs of Xinjiang, in what bore all the hallmarks of a quid pro quo to ensure deliveries of Chinese Covid-19 vaccines.
... these are just tidbits of the overall overarching theme of China dominating everyone everywhere in everything. These and other incidents seem to put the lie to the phrase: 'That is not clear to me.'
Either you're the least informed citizen in your country, you don't /ever/ read news, or you're outright lying. None of those are good options.
In any case, just the tiniest bit of searching would reveal China's hostile intent world-wide. To state otherwise is to be willfully ignorant.