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Trade typically involves a buyer and a seller.
by hotstickyballs 3y ago
Trade typically involves a buyer and a seller.
- kasey_junk 3y agoChinese trade with the US doesn’t in large part go through the Suez Canal. Chinese/US trade mostly just goes directly across the Pacific.
- AlecSchueler 3y agoEurope?
- whatever1 3y agoThey are definitely not American containers. Yet everyone counts on America to save the day! Multipolar world my ass.
- AlecSchueler 3y agoChina would sooner reroute that get involved in conflicts so far from home. You're blaming people who aren't American for not being American enough. Not everything has to be resolved violently.
- bluGill 3y agoChina is involved by coming out aginst Isreal. Thus they support this terror campaign overall.
- AlecSchueler 3y agoAren't China consistently critical of violent aggression? I don't see how their being critical of Israeli violence is supporting terrorism elsewhere. China are one of the main players in trying to encourage peace talks between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. I feel like you're maybe trying to make a different point but avoiding saying it?
- bluGill 3y agoboth sides are violent here.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Aren't China consistently critical of violent aggression? No, they frequently support violence when it’s internal suppression. They also support violence for e.g. taking Taiwan. The simple answer is China can have its cake and eat it too, so why not.
- AlecSchueler 3y agoSorry, I thought aggression on the international stage was more clearly implied. I understand there are issues in Taiwan, Tibet, Ugyyhur province. But they aren't invading countries around the world to involve themselves in other people's problems. I'm not sure what you're saying in your last paragraph. China have worked consistently with SA and Yemen to try to facilitate peace talks. They were opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are opposed to Israeli aggression.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> they aren't invading countries around the world to involve themselves in other people's problems China invaded and annexed Nepal (EDIT: Tibet). They’re also prominently involved in Central Asian and African politics. > not sure what you're saying in your last paragraph China depends on Middle Eastern oil. The Strait of Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandab closing pose an existential crisis to it. Letting America deal with the problem lets Beijing focus on messaging.
- AlecSchueler 3y agoWhen did China invade Nepal? I'm aware that they have close relationships politically with many countries but that's very different than invading them, overthrowing their leaders or arming groups that will destabilise them. I'm not sure I agree with your last point. It feels like you're assuming that the American solution is necessary or the only way. As I said above, other actors may see it differently.
- bigbluedots 3y agoCriticising Israel != supporting terrorism