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You don't have to be pro-Muslim to disagree with Israel's genocide or anti-Miuslim to disagree with Hamas' terrorist acts. Also, it could easily be just opting

by sofixa 3y ago

You don't have to be pro-Muslim to disagree with Israel's genocide or anti-Miuslim to disagree with Hamas' terrorist acts. Also, it could easily be just opting to not display any disputed borders, which Israel has multiple of (Gaza, West Bank, Golan).

teekert 3y ago
With "not exactly pro-muslim" I mean they have their own share of anti-muslim history and this does not rhyme with that. As said, I'm not knowledgeable on the subject but would like to learn.
- sofixa 3y ago
  Yeah, but disagreeing with another country's genocide against Muslims doesn't mean they will disagree with their own. Geopolitics is often hypocritical (see US getting pissed the Soviet Union deployed ICBMs in Cuba while they have theirs in Turkey; or US collaborating with the ICC to help the investigation against Russian war crimes in Ukraine, while sanctioning ICC prosecutors when they try to investigate American war crimes in Afghanistan; China being friendly and investing in many Muslim-majority or Islamic countries while genociding their own Muslims).
- timeon 3y ago
  Trying to find patterns of ideological consistency in geopolitics is probably not useful approach.
justinclift 3y ago
> it could easily be just opting to not display any disputed borders Aren't the majority of China's maritime borders disputed?
- jowea 3y ago
  I think it's mostly the ones on the South China Sea. And you don't display disputed borders when you want to be neutral. Baidu can just show the official border according to the PRC.
  - justinclift 3y ago
    Interestingly, it turns out there's a wikipedia article about China's border disputes already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_of_the_Pe... They seem to have disputes with about half of the countries on their borders (land and maritime). That's a fair few. :/

by sofixa 3y ago

teekert 3y ago

With "not exactly pro-muslim" I mean they have their own share of anti-muslim history and this does not rhyme with that. As said, I'm not knowledgeable on the subject but would like to learn.

sofixa 3y ago
Yeah, but disagreeing with another country's genocide against Muslims doesn't mean they will disagree with their own. Geopolitics is often hypocritical (see US getting pissed the Soviet Union deployed ICBMs in Cuba while they have theirs in Turkey; or US collaborating with the ICC to help the investigation against Russian war crimes in Ukraine, while sanctioning ICC prosecutors when they try to investigate American war crimes in Afghanistan; China being friendly and investing in many Muslim-majority or Islamic countries while genociding their own Muslims).
timeon 3y ago
Trying to find patterns of ideological consistency in geopolitics is probably not useful approach.

justinclift 3y ago

> it could easily be just opting to not display any disputed borders Aren't the majority of China's maritime borders disputed?

jowea 3y ago
I think it's mostly the ones on the South China Sea. And you don't display disputed borders when you want to be neutral. Baidu can just show the official border according to the PRC.
- justinclift 3y ago
  Interestingly, it turns out there's a wikipedia article about China's border disputes already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_of_the_Pe... They seem to have disputes with about half of the countries on their borders (land and maritime). That's a fair few. :/