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All those armchair political experts here when it comes to China. Kindly refer to the Taiwan crisis in 96. Sometimes I feel people here are trolling. "China i

All those armchair political experts here when it comes to China. Kindly refer to the Taiwan crisis in 96. Sometimes I feel people here are trolling. "China is provoking a war".. and this after being surrounded by American Air Force bases in the West, East and South, having US aircraft carriers being sent in front your door, having agreements being broken* (no high key visits to Taiwan), getting anti-Chinese propaganda by US presidents 24/7, being pulled into trade wars... and then being called "aggressive". As far as I know China has invaded exactly 0 countries in the past 100 years. * "By 8 July 1996, after intensive talks in Beijing between US National Security Adviser, Anthony Lake, and China's equivalent, Liu Huaqiu, the US committed itself to the equivalent of a fourth Joint Communique on Sino-US relations. China and the US reaffirmed the validity of the three previous Joint Communiques but in addition, the US stated that it would not support Taiwan's independence or its attempts to join the United Nations." https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/RP9697/97rp14#PARTII https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Depart...

senttoschool 4y ago
> All those armchair political experts here when it comes to China. Yep. Just because you can write a for loop doesn't mean you know anything about the relationship between China, Taiwan, and the US. History is always grey. It's never black and white.
yorwba 4y ago
> As far as I know China has invaded exactly 0 countries in the past 100 years. The last time was the 1979 invasion of Vietnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War Before that, there were invasions of Mongolia, the Soviet Union, South Korea, India and Tibet. Of course in each case the fighting was in territory that the Qing dynasty used to claim and subsequently lost, but that's the case for Taiwan as well, with Japan taking control after invading the island in 1895.

senttoschool 4y ago

> All those armchair political experts here when it comes to China. Yep. Just because you can write a for loop doesn't mean you know anything about the relationship between China, Taiwan, and the US. History is always grey. It's never black and white.

yorwba 4y ago

> As far as I know China has invaded exactly 0 countries in the past 100 years. The last time was the 1979 invasion of Vietnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War Before that, there were invasions of Mongolia, the Soviet Union, South Korea, India and Tibet. Of course in each case the fighting was in territory that the Qing dynasty used to claim and subsequently lost, but that's the case for Taiwan as well, with Japan taking control after invading the island in 1895.