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>China is threatening invade other places... Taiwan and where else?

lenerdenator 9mo ago
Pretty much anything that happens to abut the South China Sea. I suppose you could also make the argument that they already did invade Tibet and Hong Kong, though that's splitting hairs.
- RobotToaster 9mo ago
  Hong Kong was always Chinese, and was leased at gun point.
  - lenerdenator 9mo ago
    And now the agreement that they'd be given a more liberalistic government is being torn up at gun point.
  - lostlogin 9mo ago
    The government that leased it couldn’t really have less to do with the government that took it over in recent times. Things got considerably worse for Hong Kong, and the citizens didn’t want to join China. It’s certainly not a given that donating it to China was the right call.
    - _carbyau_ 9mo ago
      > It’s certainly not a given that donating it to China was the right call. The right call for who? For the people there? Not good. For a contracting British empire facing a clearly growing-in-power China it was a graceful exit without military conflict.
      - lostlogin 9mo ago
        Good point, maybe I have questions about the ‘graceful’ bit though.
palmotea 9mo ago
There's also the whole South China sea thing, where they're making claims on international waters and the territorial waters of their neighbors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_South_China_Sea#/media/File:South_China_Sea_vector.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_So... But I have a feeling your position is basically "Except for all the cases where they're threatening their neighbors, they're not threatening their neighbors at all."
- 1over137 9mo ago
  >I have a feeling your position is basically... No, not at all. I don't follow China closely, and was genuinely asking.
thesmtsolver2 9mo ago
Arunachal Pradesh. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna245797 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna245797 Tibet and Xinjiang already conquered and we have forgotten about them.
- ahtihn 9mo ago
  Xinjiang conquered? If you go that far back you can blame every big power for having conquered some of their territory.
lostlogin 9mo ago
India, Bhutan. South China Sea. East China Sea/Japan.

Pretty much anything that happens to abut the South China Sea. I suppose you could also make the argument that they already did invade Tibet and Hong Kong, though that's splitting hairs.

RobotToaster 9mo ago
Hong Kong was always Chinese, and was leased at gun point.
- lenerdenator 9mo ago
  And now the agreement that they'd be given a more liberalistic government is being torn up at gun point.
- lostlogin 9mo ago
  The government that leased it couldn’t really have less to do with the government that took it over in recent times. Things got considerably worse for Hong Kong, and the citizens didn’t want to join China. It’s certainly not a given that donating it to China was the right call.
  - _carbyau_ 9mo ago
    > It’s certainly not a given that donating it to China was the right call. The right call for who? For the people there? Not good. For a contracting British empire facing a clearly growing-in-power China it was a graceful exit without military conflict.
    - lostlogin 9mo ago
      Good point, maybe I have questions about the ‘graceful’ bit though.

palmotea 9mo ago

There's also the whole South China sea thing, where they're making claims on international waters and the territorial waters of their neighbors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_South_China_Sea#/media/File:South_China_Sea_vector.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_So... But I have a feeling your position is basically "Except for all the cases where they're threatening their neighbors, they're not threatening their neighbors at all."

1over137 9mo ago
>I have a feeling your position is basically... No, not at all. I don't follow China closely, and was genuinely asking.

thesmtsolver2 9mo ago

Arunachal Pradesh. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna245797 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna245797 Tibet and Xinjiang already conquered and we have forgotten about them.

ahtihn 9mo ago
Xinjiang conquered? If you go that far back you can blame every big power for having conquered some of their territory.

lostlogin 9mo ago

India, Bhutan. South China Sea. East China Sea/Japan.