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> Among more recent events are the human rights violations, the increasing saber-rattling about Taiwan, the increasing joint military exercises with Russia tha
by peoplefromibiza 4y ago
> Among more recent events are the human rights violations, the increasing saber-rattling about Taiwan, the increasing joint military exercises with Russia
that's not hostility towards the west, that's simply China defending their interests, which is their prerogative.
Taiwan is still formally and technically part of greater China, human rights violations are not rare in (an by) the US military and non military personel, do you consider Ukrainian soldiers training in the UK [1] as the UK being hostile towards China?
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/world/europe/ukraine-military-britain.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/world/europe/ukraine-mili...
- andsoitis 4y agoHow is joint military exercises with Russia not hostility to the west?
- peoplefromibiza 4y agoHow is joint military exercises with Ukraine and talks about Ukraine annection to NATO not hostility towards China? we like to think that everything we do is virtuos, but it's actually not true. We defend our interests, they defend theirs.
- trasz 4y ago>How is joint military exercises with Russia not hostility to the west? Fun fact: the number of American components in Russian weapons is order of magnitude higher than the number of Chinese components: https://static.rusi.org/RUSI-Silicon-Lifeline-final-updated-web_0.pdf https://static.rusi.org/RUSI-Silicon-Lifeline-final-updated-... So, I'm not sure which one is more hostile to Russia - in deeds, not words.