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China is definitely punching below it's weight relative to both it's economic and military capabilities. I think that much is clear.
You don't become a respectable world power by 'being responsible', 'showing restraint', and 'adhering international law' religiously. No world power became a world power by doing those things. The only law is that of the jungle.
I'm not saying China should go in guns blazing, but doing military exercises off your own coast is like...what. Japan has basically went back on the founding principles of the resumption of China-Japan relations back in 1972, which is that Taiwan is part of China. China should have at least recalled it's ambassador to Japan by now.
You don't become a respectable world power by 'being responsible', 'showing restraint', and 'adhering international law' religiously. No world power became a world power by doing those things. The only law is that of the jungle.
I'm not saying China should go in guns blazing, but doing military exercises off your own coast is like...what. Japan has basically went back on the founding principles of the resumption of China-Japan relations back in 1972, which is that Taiwan is part of China. China should have at least recalled it's ambassador to Japan by now.
manqiangrexue
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You know world powers don't start swinging heavily like the US until the battle is won. China is very careful because the world is still Western-centric. The US became what it became after it was the world's strongest power and it let that power go to its head. Any challenging superpower knows to thread lightly and think about every step when it recognizes that the situation merits serious consideration. If you are stronger than you throw yourself around to be, you are on course; if you are as strong as you throw yourself to be, you are on the edge but fine, but the instant you throw yourself around too much before you are ready to back it all up with hard power, everything can collapse on you. China is careful not to make that mistake.
Also, Japan requested that China recall this ambassador because after Takaichi's comments, he was the first to respond by calling for chopping off Japan's filthy head if it sticks its neck out over Taiwan. We refused. He's there now to show Chinese defiance, not as a symbol of friendship or cooperation anymore.
Philippines Navy can launch a total of 24 AShM at a time. That’s not even the firepower of 1 052D. There is has nothing to hide except his porn collection…Philippine Navy: Huawei has no backdoors, so we're using Huawei laptops in a drill against China.
China is addicted to keeping its head down and making money. Its certainly practical to focus on increasing GDP at all cost, cause they can always pursue geopolitical objectives later when they are richer and more powerful. But this approach also tends to make China look weak and people make fun of China's red lines.
I think the recent rare earth ban did wake up its opponents a little bit. This is the first time China really went head to head in strength and resolve. They never were this bold before.
Let's hope China doesn't give up against Japan and keeps going until japan is severely suffering economically.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
I wanna go back to this point because it was nothing but a passing thought before but Bent Back Kanae came to China offering for Takaichi to probably offer some public half-measure, although directly targeted, at climbing down from her statements on a Taiwan conflict (she probably cannot do a full apology as that would be political suicide) if China would recall Xue Jian for his comments. They tried to imply that China should save face by recalling him or Japan will expel him. China's refusal challenged Japan to expel him if they dared, but Japan folded and with that, it means that Japan must live with the insult of continuing to host a foreign diplomat who threatened to cut the head off of his host. Most painful indeed; if any diplomat were to make such a threat against China in China, we would probably have him expelled, deported, sanctioned and removed so fast he'd need someone else to send his things to him back home.
And upon closer look, Xue Jian is not the ambassador to Japan but I guess with Japan folding on him, China did not increase the pressure by recalling Chinese or expelling Japanese diplomats. That would be kept in reserve should Xue Jian face issues in Japan.
manqiangrexue
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Gee, I wonder what incredibly important non-retarded things Macron has come to say...
"Can u plz betray russia fr us; ur future is with EU. Also, plz build EV factory in EU so we cn steal. Thkz"
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It's another one of those, "Do something for us. We have nothing to offer you, but we will still criticize you and try to counter your moves." I get that it's purely for domestic audiences, but it's just such a dumb way to do diplomacy.
Do you feel that the West has really waken up because of the rare earths thing? If they did, then they'd be making concrete steps in building their own rare earths supply chain and moving heaven and earth to see it happen. So far, all we got is that some politicians saying that China is being a meanie and they have to do something about it, but rare earths aren't all that rare. The real wake up call will happen when they realize that the MIC has run out of critical materials and they're years to decades away from developing their own supply.
For the Japan thing, it's just about everything that China can hope for. They get to bully Japan at a time when Japan has no friends, and China gets to hide behind the UN Charter at the same time. Hell, China is even bringing up the legality of Okinawa's status. When has China ever done anything like this?
In case anyone else gets the "China is all alone in the dispute against Japan" feel and don't believe me when I say Takaichi is using bots:
2000-4000 yen for each YouTube video supporting Japan and/or criticizing China
Now that's a good use of taxpayer money, I hope the high rice price was worth it.
2000-4000 yen for each YouTube video supporting Japan and/or criticizing China
Now that's a good use of taxpayer money, I hope the high rice price was worth it.
What a waste of money…… aren’t they in debt enough, now they want to pull these cheap ass pranks that done even pay well