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MortyandRick said:

Why is sino phobia so rampant and in a place like Myanmar? I thought china would have more influence in that country. How does china reverse this tend of countries using china as a scapegoat. I dont think that's a good way forward for china. Something needs to be done to try and reverse it, even though I have no idea what would process would be.

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There is a sensitive ethnic Chinese autonomous border area that is aligned/backed by China. It's precisely this backing that gives China unprecedented influence over Myanmar, since they require China as a mediator to reign in this autonomous ethnic border regions. Another partial reason is the memory of Qianlong emperor of Qing dynasty's campaign against Myanmar, but unlike British, China never colonized Myanmar. As someone else said, ethnic Chinese dominate the economy in Myanmar, the ethnic Chinese diaspora are like the Jews of Southeast Asia and there are anti-Chinese riots in past because of dominant business success... Still China-Myanmar relations are strong, they don't always listen to China but they are relatively strong partners.

Temstar said:

I went back in September and staying mostly in Nanjing. One of the (newish) shopping center I went to in downtown I noticed had an underground parking lot like that. The walls and pillars are built from very robust looking reinforced concrete and the whole parking lot is divided into many smaller subsections each separated from each other with bank vault thick blast doors. Floors had hazard lines directing foot traffic independents of regular normal use parking instructions.

I remarked about this to my wife and her friend (a local) and she said yes it's quite common everywhere in Nanjing.

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At a certain parking lot, in a certain city in China

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pevade said:

At a certain parking lot, in a certain city in ChinaView attachment 121695

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The ones I saw was even more elaborate than this, I'll find some similar photos that will give you an idea:



Specifically the blast doors are big enough to allow regular civilian traffic in both direction and probably a tank through in one direction.

Because of this discussion I bought up this topic with my wife over dinner and she asked the question "wouldn't this bring up the construction cost for buildings?" to which I answered "that's the cost you have to pay if you want to be a superpower, both US and Soviet Union had done this long ago".

Argentina is screwed, big time.
No only he is an idiot, I am 100% sure that CIA has infinite blackmail material on him.

MortyandRick said:

Why is sino phobia so rampant and in a place like Myanmar? I thought china would have more influence in that country. How does china reverse this tend of countries using china as a scapegoat. I dont think that's a good way forward for china. Something needs to be done to try and reverse it, even though I have no idea what would process would be.

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Interference must be back in order from the Mao era. The concept and practice of no overt Chinese interference is a mixed bag to negative for China so far in my opinion. I mean, if China can't even have a positive image of itself on its periphery despite its massive BRI investments, tourism, etc...then what chance does it even have on actually influencing overtly and covertly countries that's out of area?

Overbom said:

Argentina is screwed, big time.
No only he is an idiot, I am 100% sure that CIA has infinite blackmail material on him.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1726921833176526894

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Who cares man, it's clear that Argentinas elite which looks upto the U.S. for their business, social, and culture supports this man and I wish Argentina nothing but the best. The regular folks are already suffering through a combined incompetence, neglect, hubris, and corruption of their elected clowns. This new guy isn't going to cause any damage more than what his previous predecessors have done.

OTCDebunker said:

Go to defence.pk (holy toxicity btw LOL!) and tons of Muslims, Arabs, and other Middle-Easterners complain bitterly about how "China does nothing again as usual".

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MortyandRick said:

Why is sino phobia so rampant and in a place like Myanmar? I thought china would have more influence in that country. How does china reverse this tend of countries using china as a scapegoat. I dont think that's a good way forward for china. Something needs to be done to try and reverse it, even though I have no idea what would process would be.

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People need to get used to the idea that China is not a normal country anymore, it's one of two superpowers. A relatively weak country with a powerful enemy will always ask for support from a distant superpower. The global South is yearning for a leader to speak on its behalf and I believe China is trying to take that position. It just has to be done in such a way that it makes the world safer and advances Chinese interests as well. So China is acting frustratingly carefully and slowly

The neighbours of a superpower blaming them for their problems shouldn't be a surprise either. China has the power to force the Myanmar government to change, but doesn't use that power. Of course the opinion that China should take territory from Myanmar or take over the country, which seems to be widespread on this forum, can't help with relations

Overbom said:

Good riddance. Another CIA success, but I see it more as a favour to China.

Failed economies/countries have no place in BRICS. Imagine your one of your first added country being Argentina lol

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Good riddance. Argentina's problems are not the China's problems. If more than half of Argentinians want stupid, then they'll get stupid and more. China is too busy to care about a Latin America country that votes a clown into power. They haven't learnt anything from the Bolsonaro experiment over in their neighbour. Next time when Argentina gets into even deeper trouble, they might blame China again, but it'll mean nothing, and nobody would care anymore. China would have moved on by then.

If and when Milei dollarizes the Argentina economy, it'll mess up the Argentinian economy even further. The US will get to control the USD that Argentina is gonna use, and that will enslave the Argentinian economy to the US. The US might put conditions on the USD that Argentina uses, thereby controlling how it can trade with the rest of the world. So Argentina will be forced to allow Western firms, especially American, to colonize it's economy. If things are bad now, they haven't seen nothing yet.

There is also an ongoing anti-colonial wave in Latin America. If Milei acts on his idiotic ideals, then Argentina is gonna find itself isolated by it's neighbours.

Bellum_Romanum said:

Who cares man, it's clear that Argentinas elite which looks upto the U.S. for their business, social, and culture supports this man and I wish Argentina nothing but the best. The regular folks are already suffering through a combined incompetence, neglect, hubris, and corruption of their elected clowns. This new guy isn't going to cause any damage more than what his previous predecessors have done.

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The curse of being a catholic country, what the Spaniards leave us is an oligarchic society where they select who to run and to support. Of course they want to convert their currency to dollar so that they can launder their money and leave the shithole they created.