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Of course I don't expect PLAN ships sailing to their aid, but as we see in Ukraine, you don't need boots on the ground to have a major impact. Countries would feel a lot safer if they had a few anti-carrier ballistic missiles on their soil.
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I agree that Trump, unlike the Democrats, seems to understand that America is in trouble and needs to take dire actions to boost national power.
However, the drawback to the Trump strategy is that he cannot grow American power at the expense of its enemies (China, Russia), so he does it at the expense of its allies! In doing this, he is essentially harvesting parts from and damaging the American empire in order to power up America the nation. The issue is that America the nation is no match for China at all. Lower population, lower STEM interest, lower average intellect, lazier work ethic; there's just no reason it can compete. It's a very difficult act to balance; do you confront China as a weaker nation leading an empire that only loosly follows orders or do you scrap the empire and harvest its parts to confront China as a stronger nation? The Democrats preferred the former while Trump prefers the latter. (In media, generally, when you see the gang boss declare all his minions as imbeciles and start killing them to harvest whatever he can get, he's about to go into his Swan song battle with the hero.)
The main problem is that there is just too much power in a fired-up China alone for the West to contend with. You can add 1+1+1+1+3 or 0.5+0.5+0.5+0.5+5 in whatever combo you like but it's not going to be over 10.
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I thought that name was a joke...like Biggus Dickus.
Honestly at this point I'm like 90% suspicious the seeseepee unironically has some sort of terrifying mind control. Right at the point the US was FINALLY about to pivot to confront China, they somehow found yet another inexplicably random (would've been unthinkable 5 years ago and had never been suggested) and laughably unnecessary quagmire to get bogged down in, which may also be the worst one yet. And no one sees anything wrong with this, including all of his advisors who talked big about prioritizing China. And it somehow has broad public support judging by the replies on Twitter. It is very simply beyond comprehension to me.
Meanwhile Han Zheng, some Chinese VP that most people never heard of gets to stand behind Trump along some rather familiar people.
This is real pathetic. They keep saying China worries about Face but India is going 10x on face here to deny that they got snubbed hard.
Btw this is Modi's fault. He snubbed Trump during his campaign because he though Harris could win. Thats so typical of Indian behaviour you know. They don't put their heads out when there's a risk or things are tough but are the first one when things are over to claim credit.
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Photoshop until proven otherwise.
No, this is just one example, I've seen a lot of people complaining about similar things.
See this live demo of Tiktok US censorship for example
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If I remember this, it was John Bolton who had Meng Wenzhou arrested. Bolton justified it as a ploy to put Huawei into a panic, a risk that he thought that they should take, that was during the height of the US government versus Huawei 5G war.
Bolton did not tell President Trump.
That is probably why Xi and Trump can still communicate. If the Chinese blamed Trump for that, then, you know.
So fuck him.