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dxq4412

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You know, now that I think of it, this sounds like total bullshit.

Although I did not read the article, but the basic fact is that those boats been submerged in seawater for a few decades.

Won't it rust?

Who in their right minds would want to take the expense to salvage a rusting hulk for scrape?

Total bullshit.

So I am beginning to doubt that any of this happened at all. Except for it could have been for archeology purposes.

Good thing I did not read the article.

As for this forum, I think 90% would like to believe this happen, maybe even me too!

:D

The ship was built by China, but it is leased and operated by a Malaysian company.


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azn_cyniq

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This is definitely going to be an unpopular opinion, but I disagree with the majority. Digging up Queen Victoria's (the queen of the British Empire during the first and second Opium Wars along with the Boxer Rebellion) coffin and pissing on her skeleton is one thing, but digging up the ruins and corpses of soldiers who just follow orders is another. The latter is as dehumanizing as Western commentators calling Russian soldiers "sunflower fertilizer" and jeering at their grieving families. Soldiers are soldiers. They execute orders and go home. They are not the decision makers, and the dead can't fight back. As for the burning down of the palaces, every civilization pulled this stunt. We can go down a rabbit hole on the horrible acts of every single country if you want, and that includes the previous dynasties of China.
I am not Russian, but I have many Russian friends, so when I see Russians being dehumanized I take it personally. When I see westerners celebrating the deaths of Russian soldiers, I respond by openly celebrating 9/11, the Paris attacks, mass shootings, or deaths from COVID in the west. That usually shuts them up. I guess it makes them reflect on their own comments. I am no fan of dehumanizing people, nor do the deaths of western people make me happy. However, if you see your friend being targeted, the only thing to do is to retaliate.
 

Chevalier

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This is what happens when you restrict the presidential term to a single one and ban re-election. The president just ignores popular demand once elected.


It's a fool's errand to decouple/contain China at this stage.


You have to live in your own world to believe that the US has real democracy.


Not surprising, considering that Germany would sacrifice their own economy to appease their master:
Germany turned its economy into a tool against china well before this year, when it gave the anglos full unrestricted access to its economy by destroying nordstream and doing nothing about it. They should not get too upset about China now eating up its lunch in manufacturing considering they didn’t care about the Anglo sabotage.
Personally don't hold the people or government of the PRC responsible for the actions of these pirates. But you can bet that plenty of people on Twitter do. PRC should arrest and punish these scrappers:

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if it helps, the anglos (since the five eyes are one political entity governed across the Atlantic) can rest assured knowing the steel of their hulks will be used for Chinese research in atomics and space exploration.
The hulk of a tool of Anglo imperialism will be used for chinese technological advancement, in fact the anglos should pay the Chinese for the honour of making good use of their hulks.
 

Mirabo

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You know, now that I think of it, this sounds like total bullshit.

Although I did not read the article, but the basic fact is that those boats been submerged in seawater for a few decades.

Won't it rust?

Who in their right minds would want to take the expense to salvage a rusting hulk for scrape?

Total bullshit.

So I am beginning to doubt that any of this happened at all. Except for it could have been for archeology purposes.

Good thing I did not read the article.

Low-background steel. Look it up.
 

LawLeadsToPeace

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Sorry. I just cannot agree with this. The British did not show the same respect to enemy combatants. They don't show the same respect to enemy soldiers whom they considered as racially inferior.

When the British soldiers killed Qing soldiers and Boxers. They put dead enemy heads on spikes. They collected scalps. British commandos posed over the corpses of dead communist guerillas in Malaya, as if they were in a safari. Were they under orders to do so? Or was it just for fun? Or was it both? Do they really deserve the same respect when they are dead?

The British, and the West in general will have no second thoughts about desecrating the dignity and the remains of dead combatants that they don't like.
Based on how they handled PVA remains, it sounds like they don't.
From rebel guerillas, to Soviet soldiers. They have no regrets after insulting the sacrifice of the Soviets in WW2. Hence, they do not deserve the kindness and respect of that they are demanding of everyone to give.
Along with the Chinese and literally every other army. There is a reason why Vietnam was always wary of and currently has hatred towards China. In every single war, atrocities happen. The worst and best of us all come out. There is no such thing as kindness in war. Go piss on the enemy all you want if you are a participant in the war. But pissing on their corpses decades or even centuries after the war is a different story. You are taking advantage of their inability to fight back to get revenge. That is extremely low. There is one thing to piss on the decision makers' corpses as that scares future leaders from making the same mistakes their predecessors did. However pissing on a dead corpse of some long dead soldier is the bitchiest and lowest level of behavior a human being can perform.
Why must you defend the indefensible? Yeah Chinese dynasties burned each other.
Does pissing on a dead person who wasn't even a decision maker sound likea remotely respectable thing to do? Go beat up a terminally ill British elder like the Americans do to Chinese elderly in Chinatown and brag to your family and friends about that. I won't be surprised that you will be disowned on the spot.
So because of that, we should all accept that the British burned Imperial Beijing down as ok? So must we take the Japanese murder, pillage, and rape in China as acceptable? Were those soldiers just following orders, or having fun, or both? Many of them are enshrined in Yasukuni today. Did they deserve to be enshrined just because they served the Emperor? Will you pay your respects at the Yasukuni shrine since you firmly believe in the innocence of all soldiers in any war? What the hell is wrong with you?
The Yakasuni shrine is a monument, not a corpse, and monuments act as rally points for political groups. Those are two different things. Had I bumped into a corpse of Japanese IJA soldier in 2023, I would call the authorities and have them send back the remains to Japan in a respectable manner because I am not an active participant in the war.
 

LawLeadsToPeace

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I am not Russian, but I have many Russian friends, so when I see Russians being dehumanized I take it personally. When I see westerners celebrating the deaths of Russian soldiers, I respond by openly celebrating 9/11, the Paris attacks, mass shootings, or deaths from COVID in the west. That usually shuts them up. I guess it makes them reflect on their own comments. I am no fan of dehumanizing people, nor do the deaths of western people make me happy. However, if you see your friend being targeted, the only thing to do is to retaliate.
Exactly. So why should one feel the need to shit on a soldier who is dead even though they aren't a participant in the conflict? If they want to do that, sign up for the combat units there. Don't be a keyboard warrior shitting on the dead from afar. At least they had the will and bravery to fight.
 

AssassinsMace

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The US is trying to get the rest of the world to stop trading with China but wants to keep its economic ties open with China. Look at how the US is making all the money when they got Europe to break off with Russia. And now the US is trying to blame Russia and China for making the US out to be bad partner for the world hence why the world is talking back at the US and the West. The truth is the most powerful propaganda and you don't need any actor perpetuating it.

I've said it before that if China can deploy a hypersonic glider that can drop conventional guided munitions, that's going to make Western countries think twice. They already admit the havoc hackers attacking the US electrical grid can do. Well look at what a bomb can do when you drop one on a power plant. They're not going to be able to repair it quick leaving millions of Americans in the dark. Make Americans feel it at home and they'll turn against war like they turned on the Iraq War because their few casualties they suffered was too much for them.
 
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