• HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 days ago

    Going to be fucking hilarious when all the western companies get fucked by China taking over the market they don’t seem to care about.

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      8 days ago

      They’re wealthy but absolute fucking morons. The people who fall for the “they have money so they must be smart” are such gullible buffoons. CCP is much more competent than American oligarchs, running what could’ve been great with better policy into the ground.

    • isaacblach@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Don’t count on China. They are going to invade Taiwan next year and the global trade embargo will be a rounding error to the destruction of the tmsc factories during that war. Or they will capture the fabs and prohibit export to the US. Loose loose for us.

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        9 days ago

        “China, a country that hasn’t invaded another country in 50 years, is going to invade this country” said the country that invades a country once a decade.

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          6 days ago

          China claiming Taiwan is its territory and threatening invasion, the regular military “training exercises”, even including the specific goal of Taiwan landing operations, and continuous hybrid attacks for years already, like invasion of Taiwan waters with fishing vessels, and cyber attacks, and you’re sitting here claiming China isn’t a country that would invade others. What do you make of these kinds of activities, then?

          The what-aboutism deflection doesn’t work very well on an international comment section, either.

          • thethrilloftime69@feddit.online
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            8 days ago

            I’m not an expert on Chinese military policy. I just know that all of us living in the West have been told by our media and our government that China is bad for us. I know we see the world through the lens of war.

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              8 days ago

              I know you think it’s impossible other countries could be bad because the U.S. is held under a microscope and intensely critiqued both by foreign interests and specific groups here. The U.S. is far from perfect but pretending other countries like China would never do bad is absolutely comical.

                • Kissaki@feddit.org
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                  6 days ago

                  I didn’t read their comment as defensive at all. Their comment ended not in defense but in questioning your original claim/original assessment. The sentence before that serves as reasoning for that.

        • nialv7@lemmy.world
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          8 days ago

          yes, because what happened in the past can perfectly predict what’s going to happen next.

          not saying you are definitely wrong, but if someone wants to have a bet i wouldn’t bet on the side of China not invading.

        • TronBronson@lemmy.world
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          8 days ago

          China a country that has been trying to unify Taiwan since the civil war they couldn’t quite finish.

          • thethrilloftime69@feddit.online
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            8 days ago

            When you live in the imperial core of one of the most militaristic nations in the history of the world, everything seems like a provocation.

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              8 days ago

              Ironic considering much of the world was constantly in conflict prior to Pax Americana.

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                8 days ago

                America has engaged in war the majority of the post world war 2 era. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan twice, Iraq twice. And that’s not including all the proxy wars they’ve funded.

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                  8 days ago

                  Yes every instance was totally bad. The U.S. should’ve done nothing to counter USSR and their dominoes across the world. US should’ve just let every country fall into an authoritarian USSR influenced country.

                  Obviously, I don’t blindly think every war was good, such as Bush era Iraq. However, defending Kuwait was 100% defensible in Gulf War.

                  • thethrilloftime69@feddit.online
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                    8 days ago

                    The point I’m trying to make is America likes war a lot. China hasn’t fought a war in 50 years. It’s hard to take Americans seriously when they accuse someone of being aggressive.

        • jali67@lemmy.zip
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          8 days ago

          The issue is not black and white like you people that barely got by high school make it out.

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      9 days ago

      What’s your source for that. China has no more reason to invade Taiwan next year than they have at any point in the last 30 years

      • nialv7@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        China has been wanting to reunite with Taiwan ever since the founding of the PRC. the reason has always been there, and right now they are more ready than ever.

        keep a close eye on what Chinese military is doing.

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          8 days ago

          Why are they more ready now than they were 2 years ago? Politically nothing has really changed I know Americans like to think that Trump is a big factor but he isn’t, since even he is just as bullish on China as any other US president has been and it’s not as if the military is left.

        • Kissaki@feddit.org
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          8 days ago

          It’s not about recent tech, it’s about historical territorial claims, and broader territorial strategy. Of course, while ignoring history/historic context at the same time.

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          8 days ago

          It’s called unfinished business. Xi is not going to give up on reunifying all of china. They got their Hong Kong now they need the Taiwan

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          8 days ago

          It’s well known that Taiwan has all strategic factories mined. If a single Chinese soldier steps on the island, anything industrial of value will be blown to bits. China is interested in the land.