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Petrolicious88 said:

The part is few Asian nations or politicians want to form similar alliances with China. I have always said China needs to form alliances based on shared interests and values. These alliances needs to be based on more than just trade or Chinese loans.

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Any Asian alliances with China based on politics or military are not practical. The political system China is having is uniquely Chinese and still evolving, for better or worse. It is not matured yet. To the Chinese, China seems to be doing something right but to many of the outsiders, China is a horrible authoritarian state. So any country that ally with China politically will be viewed similarly as a Chinese state especially by the powerful West with serious consequences. Besides China has stop exporting ideology/revolution and replaced it with consumer goods a long time ago.
Military alliances doesn't always worked either. Ask Vietnam. Even North Korean, depending almost entirely on China to survive, the relationship is troublesome at best. With Russia, it's been a complicated hate love hate love historic relationship.
So better for China to keep any kind of alliances as simple as possible, just like RCEP, belt and road (OBOR), AIIB, or just keep them as buddy like Pakistan.

Petrolicious88 said:

The part is few Asian nations or politicians want to form similar alliances with China. I have always said China needs to form alliances based on shared interests and values. These alliances needs to be based on more than just trade or Chinese loans.

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You've been misled, the US does not have "alliances", it has tributary states. An alliance would imply an agreement between equals. There is not a single so-called US ally that treats with the US on equal footing.

If you look at history, alliances are made by weak countries to defend themselves against stronger countries, and alliances are made and broken at convenience. For example, the alliance between Shu and Wu during the Three Kingdoms.

China does not need allies, nor does it need tributary states. All it needs are rational partners. The most important international relationship China has is with the USA, and China will gladly work with a rational USA despite diametrically opposite interests.

Why rational? Because war is irrational. War happens because a nation is gripped by fear or greed. Rational actors can always find a way to avoid war, and peace is the most important goal in international relations.

solarz said:

From the artist himself:

Australia obviously doesn't believe in freedom of speech.

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Such talent.

ShariQ Ansari said:

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I'm so proud of her. This is why I choose her as my avatar.

I particularly loved the way she spoke so elegantly, and seamlessly three times that the Australian should feel ashamed of themselves instead of demanded an apology from China, for "China's shameful act". They should apologise to the world, unless they have no shame.

Mr T said:

I never said he was. I said it's fine for Chinese people (i.e. generally) to be moved.

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Here we have two screen dumps from a "Mr T".

1. Who is the person in the first post? Did this person disappear? Or you made him disappear?
2. If the two are both from the same you, how thick is your skin? I suggest you to eat a piece of A1 paper printed with the following words, or even more conveniently, eat your keyboard.
3. If the two are from different personalities, we need to call the insane asylum.

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Hu Xijin's hatchet job:

Morrison should kneel down on the ground, slap himself in the face, and kowtow to apologize to Afghans - all these should be done in a live telecast. No matter what harsh words people use on them for the murder, the Australian government should have accepted it. How dare they talk back and say they are offended!

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Looks like there is no turning back for the foreseeable future.

As a warhound of the US, Australia should restrain its arrogance. Particularly, its warships must not come to China's coastal areas to flex muscles, or else it will swallow the bitter pills.

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taxiya said:

Here we have two screen dumps from a "Mr T".

1. Who is the person in the first post? Did this person disappear? Or you made him disappear?
2. If the two are both from the same you, how thick is your skin? I suggest you to eat a piece of A1 paper printed with the following words, or even more conveniently, eat your keyboard.
3. If the two are from different personalities, we need to call the insane asylum.

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That's our Mr. T. He does live in an alternate universe!

Not only does he blatenly lied about what he said. He also twisted the narratives away from what the Aussie did in Afghanistan.

And proceed to attack China with all the crap that China's own records. Blah blah blah.

Look @Mr T you have been cought out here time and again. In the words of our foreign spokesperson Hua Chunying. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself"!

KenC said:

Hu Xijin's hatchet job:

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Looks like there is no turning back for the foreseeable future.

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The warhound has been found wanting. I love this bit.

"As a warhound of the US, Australia should restrain its arrogance. Particularly, its warships must not come to China's coastal areas to flex muscles, or else it will swallow the bitter pills."

It's like China is saying: come and have a go if you think you're hard enough"! Lol

I just can't wait to see the Aussies warship in SCS.