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If ethics are the driver, how does France feel about China’s neocolonial expansionism, its geo-ethnic concentration camps and its insistence on terminally annex

If ethics are the driver, how does France feel about China’s neocolonial expansionism, its geo-ethnic concentration camps and its insistence on terminally annexing a peaceful independent democracy off its shores? And if we’re talking about hypocrisy and reliability, what about China’s hypocrisy and naked lies in diplomacy (decades of promises to reform with zero intent to follow through) and its opportunistic all-spectrum IP theft-by-coercion? How does France feel empowering and collaborating with a functionally-totalitarian centralized government operating on Han ethnonationalism which sees the existence of large democracies as a threat to its internal affairs (all Xi Jinping Socialist Thought For International Relations global PR campaigns notwithstanding)? I’d think that even if commitment to those principles turn out to be French agitprop, at least France remembers how it goes to let that kind of governance complex rise to (near-)hegemonic power.

WastingMyTime89 3y ago
How do you feel about living in a country torturring kidnapped people without ever bringing them in front of the justice system, sponsoring mass violence in South America through its drug policies and weapon industry, which provably sponsored the Indonesian genocide in 1965, paid for the coup which put a totalitarian military dictatorship in place in Chile instead of the democraticly elected government of Allende? The USA has no lessons to give to anyone regarding foreign diplomacy. There is no truth behind the idea that China is bad and the USA is the force for good. Both countries want to export their own model of exploitation. Both countries are trying to make the rest of world subservient. Both care about their own interest first and foremost. Both are pretty aweful in their own way. I wish we didn't have to deal with either. Sadly the world is what it is. Non alignment seems wise.
- boffinAudio 3y ago
  >The USA has no lessons to give to anyone regarding foreign diplomacy. The USA has no diplomacy.

WastingMyTime89 3y ago

How do you feel about living in a country torturring kidnapped people without ever bringing them in front of the justice system, sponsoring mass violence in South America through its drug policies and weapon industry, which provably sponsored the Indonesian genocide in 1965, paid for the coup which put a totalitarian military dictatorship in place in Chile instead of the democraticly elected government of Allende? The USA has no lessons to give to anyone regarding foreign diplomacy. There is no truth behind the idea that China is bad and the USA is the force for good. Both countries want to export their own model of exploitation. Both countries are trying to make the rest of world subservient. Both care about their own interest first and foremost. Both are pretty aweful in their own way. I wish we didn't have to deal with either. Sadly the world is what it is. Non alignment seems wise.

boffinAudio 3y ago
>The USA has no lessons to give to anyone regarding foreign diplomacy. The USA has no diplomacy.