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In4ser

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When identity politics took off in the 2016-2019 time frame, for Blacks, it was pretty easy to form a unified identity. Long removed from their African roots, common experience in slavery and Jim Crow, inner city struggles, police brutality, drugs, it was a common experience they could unify around, especially since polically too Blacks were already well established. Whites obviously divided themselves based on left/right wing political beliefs and you had subgroups like LGBTQ.

Asians though are newcomers to America. Yes rights groups say we've "been here since the 1800s" etc, but the vast majority of Asians in today's America are either 1st or 2nd generation. Even if don't know a lick of your native language and rejected all the traditions, you still were to some degree exposed to it at home, ie. your upbringing was not 100% American. So when identity politics took off, guess what? Most Asian Americans rather than coalescing around an Asian American identity, decided to retreat back to their roots. Because what is "Asian American identity?" About the only thing I could think of is a shared love for boba tea. So yeah, it doesn't exist.

When Eastern and Southern European immigrants were forced to assimilate into the Anglo identity, there was not much of a barrier since Anglo identity is still European. Asians will never be accepted into the Anglo identity and the Asian American identity is skin deep and perhaps more tragically never had/will never be allowed to develop, so every one just identifies based on ancestral country. And no surprise, in addition to relearning the languages, getting in touch with the motherland for some has meant adopting the current prejudices. So now you have American Born Koreans hating Chinese people, Indians hating Pakistanis, Vietnamese hating Cambodians, and everybody just looking down on Filipinos. Really, its a mess.
It’s by design. Liberalism has evolved into the atomization of society to empower the individual at all cost. Whether it’s race, gender, religion or ideology it’s all up in the air to be used as a fault line to divide, conquer and control until no one can trust anyone. The war has come home and the same techniques and strategies implemented abroad in other countries are now used at home. It’s not Black, Whites or Jews or Democrats or Republicans but the rich and powerful vs people who are threat to them, especially the middle class.

It’s typically the poor who are envious of the middle class and rich that fear them. That is why the rich often try to turn them against the middle class and why Title 42 this week is expiring to allow cheap labor to flow in and keep prices and workers rights down.
 

MortyandRick

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For Thailand, the main opposition party isn't anti-China. Thaksin and his party has a good relationship with China during his reign and his sister reign.

It's the newly formed second most popular opposition party that is led by Harvard Educated leader which is anti-China.
I feel it's sad that the US can do easily influence an election in a country. Thailand should have banned all NGOs. Now the US is influencing their elections .
 

FriedButter

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It's all over now, PRC might as well just accept Taiwan's independence:

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Seriously though, China's best bet is to ignore Lettuce Liz in the same way that everyone in the UK does now. Clearly a desperate attempt by her to maintain some sort of relevancy after her disastrous and mercifully brief premiership.

It is mostly guaranteed that they were going to ignore her anyway. Former officials usually don’t garner any decent size reaction
 
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KYli

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I feel it's sad that the US can do easily influence an election in a country. Thailand should have banned all NGOs. Now the US is influencing their elections .
In Thailand, the military junta has the final words for everything. As Thailand military junta has a strong tie with the US, it is unlikely for Thailand to get away of the US influence. However, Thailand military junta has equally strong tie with China so Thailand is unlikely to become anti-China especially since there is no animosity or disputes between Thailand and China.
 

KYli

Brigadier
It isn't so much about the bill that is scary. It is that anyone opposes this bill is quickly labeled as commies that is scary. None of opposition from any rights groups and across the spectrum support for this bill show you that ant-China is a god given rights now in the US.

In addition, China doesn't own much lands in the US but so many Americans blindly accused and accepted that China is trying to buy up American lands shows the lack of any critical thinking that these people so prided themselves of.

The bill however would allow non-tourist visa resident to buy one property that is 5 miles away from any sensitive facilities with smaller than 2 acres but I am doubtful that many not US citizens Chinese would want to buy now.

However, this bill probably would be welcomed by many mainland Chinese that those corrupted and wealthy Chinese couldn't send their money to the US to scoop up properties in the US any longer.
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