REALLY REALLY HOPE THEY KEEP FIGHTING for China's sake...! Would be nice to get at least another two years of Westoids and Russians bleeding each other out (both wanna chop up China) so that even more opportunities can open up for relatively peaceful Chinese development to continue!!
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This containment of China strategy or theory, proposed and allegedly acted upon by some sources of power in the West, is a real mystery to me.
To me, it does not exist, this containment of China by the Americans and their allies. If you believe they are containing China, then I think you are deeply confused person.
The above story, is just another data point, or whatever we want to call it.
Does this story signify containment?
Possibly.
Containment? Or is another word more appropriate, like impotence.
E. D. is no joke.
Sigh.
You are correct that any desire to retake HK was put down by the leadership, primarily Premier Zhou. When food shipments to HK were being held up by local officials, he personally intervened.
Again, the riots died down when Zhou made broadcasts criticizing the actions of the rioters (with Mao’s approval), so there was no serious consideration from the top level to take HK.
LKY was wrong then. The declassified documentation shows that UK was considering granting independence to HK in the 50’s more than anything. They were reeling from the loss of India and the European colonial empires were collapsing in Asia and around the world (French Indochina, British Malaya, Dutch Indochina, etc.). However this was the time Zhou Enlai issued his warning.
60’s was a transitional period. At this time HK was still poor. Droughts in the early part of the decade forced HK created a great water shortage. Premier Zhou pushed to build the water supply from SZ to HK (). Don’t forget that PRC was very poor at this time and did this at great cost for the country.
So there was no poison pill because it was actually PRC that ensured the successful development of HK, not just UK’s policy. So actually the complete opposite of Vercingetorix.
HK’s status had benefits for both sides, simple as that. China’s goodwill assured the colonial administration that they could reap the full economic rewards from development until 1997.
Wrong about what -- you sound like you're actually in agreement with him....
That would rather support LKY's statements if anything....
And therefore that all proves what, exactly?
There seems to be a great misunderstanding...Vercongetorix in this analogy is the U.K., not China.
Um, that's basically what LKY said, that Mao refused taking back HK because it was advantageous to have Brit-Bongs doing the work of further development.
What "goodwill"...it's a political calculation like everything else....
Great news. Something else interesting caught my eyes in that article.
Interestingly Geoffrey Hinton also left the US due to his anti-war stance, especially against the Vietnam war.
Perhaps China's peaceful rise can attract more researchers due to ideological reasons. I know for example there are many researchers in Japan who refuse to take research projects associated with the defence industry.
Google translated
Javier Milei would allow Argentina to join the BRICS but as a less active member
My newly learnt spanish: Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja
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There needs to be a version of that meme with Zelensky in heaven except its US officials and the ones betraying are right wing Latin American dictators
Why would BRICS want a semi failed State with no future in their club? Don't they realise Argentina is more or less a reality show these days
I'd argue they're preferable to Iran and Ethiopia.
Iran is a willing frontline partner and Ethiopia has resources.
I guess Argentina also has resources but... Meh.