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TK3600

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Pakistan under the current military regime is dangerous and unpredictable. Pakistan unlike Iran is in the business of appeasement. Iran has a very clear stance with regards to US policies etc. The Pakistani decsionmakers are only interested in running their economy through IMF loans. The Pakistani generals have business interests in the US. Most of these generals retire in Western capitals. In other words, the generals are in the business of keeping all sides happy irrespective of making the right choice. We have witnessed that the Pakistani generals are willing to overthrow a chosen leader at the orders of the Americans. That is dangerous.

China is historically a great ally of Pakistan. The vast majority of Pakistanis both abroad and in Pakistan trust China blindly. Simply because China has withstood testing times. What I fear are the current crop of duplicitous Pakistani generals. China needs to calculate every step with regards to Pakistan. I understand that China won't agitate and Interfere. China isn't the US. Nevertheless, China should keep a close eye on the decsionmakers in Pakistan. These so-called leaders are untrustworthy.

Pakistan is headed for turbulent times in the near future. Probably elections will be held early next year after Imran Khan is eliminated. What happens after this is anyone's guess.
Once again proves non-interference policy is a mistake.
 

TK3600

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Here's what I mean; which is more semantically rich (never mind convenient)?

"Forum-Top-Level > Members Only > Miscellaneous News == One Yuuuge Thousands-of-Pages-Long-Multiyear-Thread for A, B, C...X, Y, Z"

Or, as is common practice practically everywhere else online:

"Forum-Top-Level > Miscellaneous News > Thread A, Thread B, Thread C...Thread X, Thread Y, Thread Z"
PDF refugee detected.
 

DavidChou

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PDF refugee detected.
lol wut it's literally how forums are organized (on the English-speaking web, anyway)...like, by default -- you buy VM Forum or something and that's how it's set up outta the box. You have to go out of your way to do otherwise!
 

TK3600

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What?? You mean you're actually advocating for China to do Westoid-style shenanigans such as color revolutions or outright "protectorate" or "mandate" type colonialism????
China should work with whoever is currently in charge, but safeguard against coups like these. All negative disruption to status quo should be prevented.

Whether China should disrupt status quo to install favorable government is debatable, but personally I am not against that either. At least for neighbouring countries which China has keen interest to.
 

DavidChou

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China should work with whoever is currently in charge, but safeguard against coups like these. All negative disruption to status quo should be prevented.
So how exactly, specifically could China have guarded against unwelcome developments? In general and here in this case.
Whether China should disrupt status quo to install favorable government is debatable, but personally I am not against that either. At least for neighbouring countries which China has keen interest to.
Ayo!! But that severely undercuts China's claims of peaceful rise, which is its only saving grace in the eyes of an otherwise suspicious and even seethingly hostile world (always love seeing BRI "partners" having to force themselves to smile for the cameras -- and in the case of someone like Viktor Orban, he looks like he can barely unclench his jaws LOL)....
 

daifo

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Here's what I mean; which is more semantically rich (never mind convenient)?

"Forum-Top-Level > Members Only > Miscellaneous News == One Yuuuge Thousands-of-Pages-Long-Multiyear-Thread for A, B, C...X, Y, Z"

Or, as is common practice practically everywhere else online:

"Forum-Top-Level > Miscellaneous News > Thread A, Thread B, Thread C...Thread X, Thread Y, Thread Z"

I think it sorta works okay here is because people tend to post many random links/news item and people often just "thumbs up/smile" rather than having many replies to a post. Maybe better categorization of threads would help like Asia News, Europe News, US News but i think people still tend to dump into misc because it gets more views and topics cross borders.
 
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