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I mean hu jintao was more pro western than Xi right now and I think the ccp at that time was more pro western than now because of leadership.
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It was a different time.

The way I look at it, it is what Deng said when he ordered the tanks to roll into Vietnam. Deng said we will teach Vietnam a lesson even if it cost Yunnan 25 years of development.

It was a short war, and peace came and prevailed for the longest of times in the region.

After those years, a determination was made at the very top, given the Cold War abruptly ended, that peace was going to spread everywhere, not only in East Asia and South East Asia.

If the world was going that way, then China is friendly. But that does not necessarily mean it is pro-West, or anti-West.

To me, it is just a case of going with the major trends in the world. If it is going one way of integration and co-operation then China should have certain policies. If it is going the other way trending towards hostility, then China should have other policies.

Pro-West, or anti-West, is not how I look at it, and that is not the starting point that is taken.

Cheers.

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Randomuser said:
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Redditors are basically gooners detached from romantic relationships for a long time. Every time there's a riot, having girls stand at the forefront gets them to support like dogs in heat.

Except for those related to abortion rights, because that would shatter their fragile bubble of illusion.
 
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plawolf

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2010166343744795002

heres a snapple fact: Steven miller endorses torture, not unlike Jewish interrogators castrating and crushing the testicles of German prisoners for fun.
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Some people are asking why Trump is going after Greenland, this frozen wasteland of minimal additional value since the US already gets to use it for all the military purposes it wants.

This report might have just spelled it out for us.

"According to the sources, the President has asked the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to prepare the invasion plan, but it is being resisted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the grounds that it would be illegal..." the Daily Mail reported.

Trump is issuing clearly illegal orders to test his generals to see which ones are loyal to him and which ones will stand in his way.

Expect a lot more of these headlines as principled US generals decide to jump before they are pushed, and purging of those disloyal commanders who aren’t smart enough to go quietly.

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It may even be a similar deal with allies. Trump are testing to waters to see which ones are worth keeping and which ones needs weakening so they cannot stand against him when he wants to be Emperor.
 
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So if China refuses to invest because it's afraid of taking risks and the west attacks anyway, then that only leaves becoming pro western as an option. The former crown prince may be an awful human being, but if putting him on the throne will make the people rich, then they'll support that. If China actually made good on the 25 year agreement or gave Iran better market access or help with non US financial services, Iranians wouldn't need to protest. It's not about Islamic ideology, it's all the economy
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Not China's fault, not China's problem.
Contrary to much Western analysis, Iran never fully embraced China—even after Trump’s 2018 exit from the nuclear deal. As the conservative Farhikhtegan newspaper recently noted, Tehran long treated Beijing as a fallback, abandoning major proposals whenever fleeting openings with the West arose. The paper asserts that Xi Jinping offered a $40 billion investment package in 2016, but it went nowhere, while the much-touted 25-year cooperation road map remained largely symbolic for lack of Iranian initiative.
Indeed, in the brief window of sanctions relief after the 2015 nuclear agreement, Tehran handed lucrative contracts to Western firms such as Total, Airbus, and Boeing—sidestepping Chinese companies. As Hossein Qaheri, the head of the Iranian-Chinese Strategic Studies Think Tank, admitted: “Time and again, for short-term gains, we have abandoned China—and the Chinese have repeatedly said they do not have strategic trust in Iran.”
The war’s aftermath and the “snapback” of U.N. sanctions have forced Tehran to rethink its approach: If it wants China to invest in infrastructure and defense, it must start acting like a genuine long-term partner, not just turning to Beijing in times of crisis. Even many reformists now echo this view. For instance, Jalaeipour, while pressing for broader democratic reforms at home, has likewise argued that Iran must demonstrate consistency and reliability if it expects China to invest at scale.
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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1966170372589629469
 
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Does anyone have more information on this alleged development made by the Chinese government?

According to the Jamestown written article, the Central government has decided to implement to only appoint people to important leadership positions that don't have any family members studying and living abroad to prevent the clear and present danger of western intelligence coercion...

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Bellum_Romanum said:
Does anyone have more information on this alleged development made by the Chinese government?

According to the Jamestown written article, the Central government has decided to implement to only appoint people to important leadership positions that don't have any family members studying and living abroad to prevent the clear and present danger of western intelligence coercion...

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I remember there was a rule saying you can't get a top position if you did your first degree outside China or something.
 
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