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When it comes to annexation, China doesn't threaten, they just invade and extinguish.
by rib3ye 4mo ago
When it comes to annexation, China doesn't threaten, they just invade and extinguish.
- kingofthehill98 4mo agoYeah, I remember clearly when China invaded/bombed: Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Panama, Syria...
- dragonwriter 4mo agoYou absolutely should remember the Chinese war with the first of those; if you have trouble, a good way to remind yourself is that it was not long after the US one.
- coldtea 4mo agoYeah, so getting 1 out of 10 he mentioned, even if it's their direct neighbor (where disputes happen for all countries), ain't bad! This absolutely means they're the same /s
- dragonwriter 4mo agoIf I had wanted to say “China and the US are the same”, I would have strung together a set of words that looked a lot more like “China and the US are the same” than the ones that I actually posted.
- rib3ye 4mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War
- Xunjin 4mo agoCould you give me some examples? Which wars do you have in mind?
- rib3ye 4mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_the_People's_Republic_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_the_Peo...
- nick__m 4mo agoCould you give a recent example? Because your example is as pertinent as the overthrowing of Guatemala's democratically elected President in 1954 by the CIA.
- rib3ye 4mo agoI don't remember the U.S. federal government declaring Guatemala a U.S. territory and asking all Guatemalans to change their official language. What China did in Tibet is closer to what the U.S. did with Hawaii.
- skippyboxedhero 4mo agoTibet, Manchuria, it should be somewhat obvious that a nation that is as ethnically diverse as China was not a nation borne out of lots of different people deciding simultaneously that they would like to create a country together. What is modern China has only existed for 100 years or so. When the country collapsed there were ethnic divisions that were erased after the country was unified. The hallmark of successful ethnic cleansing is people claiming that there were never any wars, that things were always this way. The same is true of Kaliningrad, the most German city, centuries of history as a leading nation within Germany and the HRE, now a completely Russian city. It is only in the West that you see any narrative around division, in places like China or Russia history is erased (and how could it be any other way, the cornerstone of Chinese politics is one nation, one people...there is no political value in this narrative in Western countries).
- deadfoxygrandpa 4mo agomanchuria? are you sure that's a good example?
- toasty228 4mo agoAnd when it comes to the US, every accusation is a confession.
- rib3ye 4mo agoIt certainly wasn't a denial. China could learn a lot from that.