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>Im surprised to hear that about Australian public opinion. Dissenting voices in Australia seem far more aware of the profit motive behind potentially unneeded
by ashwagary 4y ago
>Im surprised to hear that about Australian public opinion.
Dissenting voices in Australia seem far more aware of the profit motive behind potentially unneeded militarization. I believe this is due to less complicated accounting of government spending when compared to countries like the US.
>The diplomatic messaging from the CCP became extremely aggressive a couple of years ago. The outcome of this bullying was essentially to wake up the world to the threat that China had become.
It's clear the Chinese hear western propaganda and respond to it, shouldn't be surprising. Everything from the blame for covid (which recent signs point to being a US lab creation) to western thought leaders openly discussing nuking a billion relatively peaceful people and not being condemned for it. This naturally results in a re-adjustment in approach to engagement.
>This period of Chinese open hostility towards the world essentially made many countries into enemies or at least adversaries of China.
This statement doesn't ring true. They havent been hostile to the world, just to factions within a few western countries that make up a small minority of the planet's population.
I doubt any recovering nation that's been invaded by these same western countries and is planning to survive the next few centuries would take further threats of mass murder and invasion lightly.
- ProjectArcturis 4y agoYour post contains many factual errors. I'm not sure there's a true statement in it at all.
- ashwagary 4y agoI disagree. What do you think is erroneous specifically?
- ProjectArcturis 4y ago>which recent signs point to being a US lab creation >western thought leaders openly discussing nuking a billion relatively peaceful people and not being condemned for it >They havent been hostile to the world, just to factions within a few western countries
- ashwagary 4y ago>>>They havent been hostile to the world, just to factions within a few western countries Western countries have an ignorant habit of posturing like they are more than 15% of the world population, they even go so far as to frame themselves as the global majority in many cases. Free trade expansion, economic cooperation, debt forgiveness, etc... encompassing more than 70% of the world population make claims of general Chinese hostility sound like westcentric nonsense. "The New Candidate Countries For BRICS Expansion" https://www.silkroadbriefing.com/news/2022/11/09/the-new-candidate-countries-for-brics-expansion/ https://www.silkroadbriefing.com/news/2022/11/09/the-new-can... "(US-China) Great Power Conflict Fuels BRICS Expansion Push" https://thediplomat.com/2022/07/great-power-conflict-fuels-brics-expansion-push/ https://thediplomat.com/2022/07/great-power-conflict-fuels-b... "China Forgives 23 Loans for 17 African Countries, Expands ‘Win-Win’ Trade and Infrastructure Projects" https://scheerpost.com/2022/08/23/china-forgives-23-loans-for-17-african-countries-expands-win-win-trade-and-infrastructure-projects/ https://scheerpost.com/2022/08/23/china-forgives-23-loans-fo... >>>which recent signs point to being a US lab creation "Jeffrey Sachs Presents Evidence of Possible Lab Origin of Covid-19" https://theintercept.com/2022/05/19/covid-lab-leak-evidence-jeffrey-sachs/ https://theintercept.com/2022/05/19/covid-lab-leak-evidence-... "DARPA docs on the origins of COVID-19 & confirming gain-of-function research." https://twitter.com/EricSpracklen/status/1608179885297508353 https://twitter.com/EricSpracklen/status/1608179885297508353 >>>western thought leaders openly discussing nuking a billion relatively peaceful people and not being condemned for it "US admiral would ‘nuke China next week’ if Trump ordered it" https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2104336/us-admiral-would-nuke-china-next-week-if-trump https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article... “We need a military full of Type A men who want to sit on a throne of Chinese skulls” https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-guest-we-need-military-full-type-men-who-want-sit-throne-chinese-skulls https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-guest-we-need-mili... "Why is Biden Risking Nuclear War With China? - Chomsky and Ellsberg" https://youtube.com/watch?v=CM7SRz2wnTo https://youtube.com/watch?v=CM7SRz2wnTo
- ProjectArcturis 4y agoChinese aggression against its neighbors: https://2017-2021.state.gov/chinas-military-aggression-in-the-indo-pacific-region/index.html https://2017-2021.state.gov/chinas-military-aggression-in-th... All the lab leak theories are about Chinese labs, not US. None of the people you quoted are "thought leaders" in any meaningful sense. I'm sure there are plenty of talking heads on Chinese media who spout very aggressive rhetoric. The US will never go to war with China unless it invades Taiwan.