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Typical westerner shallow understanding of history/anything. Basically "I saw a documentary on Netflix, so now I'm a SME".
Uighur language in China is still written in an Arabic script, this is not done in Turkey which uses Latin alphabet now, and similarly for Chinese-Kazakh, where Kazakhstan uses Cyrillic. So basically China was able to preserve a thousand year tradition of minorities on it's own. I guess for sure we can say there is western superiority in the field of cultural genocide.
They also don't realize that the Chinese style architecture was typical for Chinese mosques (for some reason Chinese-style architecture was used in China, go figure). Some of the oldest mosques in the whole world are Chinese (both style and location). Just google something like this:
Domes are not "Islamic" architecture, it is Arabic architecture and most of it is imported from conservative Saudi influence.
Here is a site about actual Islamic culture, and they are highlighting how Chinese and Islam come together
I've said before, I believe this whole China is the worst country to be Muslim in is some kind of US campaign to foster extremism. They are angry that China doesn't have more terror attacks on the level of 9/11.
It is not so much that poverty is a necessary component of the "cultural purity", just a lack of progress. I would argue White saviour complex isn't even a major part either. I was reading an article once and it was saying that the west really hasn't evolved from the 19th century attitudes when human zoos and ideas of "savage natives" were still common. Look at the anti-globalization/anti-corporate movement, it is essentially rooted in this kind of attitude. We live in the modern world, people need jobs and money to survive. Factories are not always pleasant places, but the income is steady. Multinationals are exploiting this kind of labour, sure, but it is silly to make the assumption that the locals are stupid and don't know any better.
Anduril, Palantir… america‘s tech scene is led by nerds who think they’re gonna do Ride of the Rohirrim all over again when they resemble orcs in deed, action, values and appearance.
if Americans don’t intend to be No, 2, maybe they should actually become a worthy competitor instead of trying to Tonya Harding the entire world.
Or better yet, use that white supremacy, that liberal democracy, that ashkenazi elite IQ that Anglo Atlanticists love to rave on about.
Loyalty to China? That's US neocon mentality. China does not demand loyalty, it wants win-win cooperation and mutual respect, which is a work in progress wrt China-Turkey relations. Of course Turkey's moves are rooted in its own self-interest - as every truly independent nation should be.
Loyalty is something communal white anglo-saxon fuderal culture. The superior Chinese individualism shall win the day! Is there any country more fitting to Republican idealogy than China? Minus white supremacy of course.
Some random thoughts on Turkey:
China let Erdogan visit Xinjiang in 2012 while he was in an official visit to China. There were some Chines online dissent back then. Now China let his foreign minister visit Xinjiang, at an acute moment when Turkey is forced to look at SCO or BRICS. Meanwhile, Turkish are more west-leaning than Iranians. In this context, China is playing an old game of united front.
What does China have to lose? Some online dissent or propaganda face.
What does China have to gain? Turkey is drifting further away from the west.
One overriding factor is that Turkey is an important country in the Euro-Asia land bridge.
Another factor is that Turkey is becoming a 100-million middle-class market for many things.
So here again China, face vs substance. And once again, China is aiming at substance over face.
US is heating up toward general election, which is going to be "hot", to say the least. Everyone else outside Beijing and Moscow is looking for alternative paths to survival. This is the geopolitical game of life time.
Zbigniew Brzeziński would be rolling in his grave if he sees Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran are sitting together with Russia and China for any photo or talking moments that do not include US or Europe. And the funny thing is that this picture was not designed or planned by China at all. It is merely presented to Xi's face by the great western politicians. My coffee is ready ......
China let Erdogan visit Xinjiang in 2012 while he was in an official visit to China. There were some Chines online dissent back then. Now China let his foreign minister visit Xinjiang, at an acute moment when Turkey is forced to look at SCO or BRICS. Meanwhile, Turkish are more west-leaning than Iranians. In this context, China is playing an old game of united front.
What does China have to lose? Some online dissent or propaganda face.
What does China have to gain? Turkey is drifting further away from the west.
One overriding factor is that Turkey is an important country in the Euro-Asia land bridge.
Another factor is that Turkey is becoming a 100-million middle-class market for many things.
So here again China, face vs substance. And once again, China is aiming at substance over face.
US is heating up toward general election, which is going to be "hot", to say the least. Everyone else outside Beijing and Moscow is looking for alternative paths to survival. This is the geopolitical game of life time.
Zbigniew Brzeziński would be rolling in his grave if he sees Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran are sitting together with Russia and China for any photo or talking moments that do not include US or Europe. And the funny thing is that this picture was not designed or planned by China at all. It is merely presented to Xi's face by the great western politicians. My coffee is ready ......
Those Central Asian states does not have history like Present Turkey which is much more integrated into Europe. There is another element of relationship between Russian Muslims and those in Central Asia. These Russian muslims have that sophistication that they put Arabs, Afghans and even non Muslims in Russia to interact with rest of Central Asian. that legitimacy comes from how close a person is to Saudis or around Green color.
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The Brits fought the Nazis because their imperial interests were threatened. Churchill was always a proponent for Aryan supremacy.
I suppose not even Trump's reelection is going to save Russia-US relations for quite a long while.
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