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henrik

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mossen said:
India will never be a friend of China. Zhou Enlai tried to end the border conflict already back in the 1950s by proposing mutual acceptance of border areas. China would get Aksai Chin and India would get what they call Arunachal Pradesh. India rejected it then and has rejected it since.

Don't fool yourself. India is only moving towards China because circumstances forced them to. There is great distrust among Indians, particularly the Hindutva types. Ironically, it's precisely these self-styled nationalists who were the biggest boosters of a US-India partnership. The left-secular Congress had traditionally favoured a more balanced foreign policy, closer to Russia and the global south.

For the Philippines, public sentiment is overwhelmingly anti-China. For Vietnam, it's more complex. The leadership is pretty pro-China but the people beneath the elites are more pro-US. This is weird, given the brutal Vietnam war. China's brief border skirmish was a nothingburder in comparison.

I think the main reason for all of this is the diaspora. Indian, Vietnamese and Filipinos diasporas are all very numerous in the West and this creates a natural cultural link to elites back home. China is a much more closed society, so there hasn't been the opportunity to create foreign diasporas. In addition, China was simply too poor to be attractive for immigrants until recently. For these reasons, people-to-people ties are scarce compared to what the West can offer these countries. China also has its own enclosed cultural space. India consumes lots of Western culture, whereas China largely does not except a few films on the margins.

Making a rational argument on economics is a very Chinese way of thinking, because Chinese people are pragmatic and rational. But people in global south countries often have emotional and social factors swaying their decisions. It's the same reason why elites in countries like Iran or Armenia keep running into the arms of the West even if it doesn't make much sense from a cold geopolitical standpoint. Because it's an emotional decision.
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All these countries with irrational anti-China views should be educated accordingly. China is a not a closed society, so there are large foreign diasporas of ethnic Chinese all over the world. There are more ethnic Chinese than Vietnamese and Filipinos in North America.
 
plawolf

plawolf

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AsuraGodFiend said:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FighterJets/comments/1n5dn4n redditors are the eyeballing kings when it comes to ram and rcs for Chinese jets them boys think they still have the edge in Avionics and sensor fusion lol. The only thing they still have the lead in is the engine department.
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Don’t forget cope, westerners will always have cope.

One particular example of the cope in the comments to that photo is actually award-winningly good for how bad it is, yet is actually hilariously correct in an unexpected way to the coper.

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I think what China is positioning itself to become is what the USA is positioning itself to also become. The USA is the world's leading arms manufacturer exporter by sales. And China is able to export it's soft power by financing and building in other countries.

The USA negotiates leases to build defensive bases in other countries and China builds infrastructure and potential backdoor leases in case the customer defaults on it's loaned payments.

Now we see the US is repositioning itself as a global developer in the same light. USA redevelopment project for Gaza.

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The USA is indeed the world leader in Gaza style ‘redeployment’ via precision carpet bombing.
 
sheogorath

sheogorath

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AndrewJ said:
Ukrainians right now... :eek:

Will Zelenskyy approve SBU to conduct a terrorist attack in China? The comment section is much more interesting. :cool:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1962044671070277940
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I'm kinda amused that the brOSINT hasn't realized that you can't use Google Earth to locate the coordinates of anything in China due to obfuscation and spoofing.

Aqrab said:
2. Opposition has be purchased behind the scene already.
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They have been pro-US since the start, it hasn't been a secret
Aqrab said:
1. US intelligence agencies have assets/moles that Maduro is NOT aware off.
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Plenty of those, and even I have my doubts about Maduro itself being a US asset in some for or another, seeing how he goes out his way to negotiate with the US behind the curtain
 
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