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Yet this is exactly the kind of action they fully supproted when Russia attempted the exactly same thing in 2022. And then several times since. Plus a few other atrocities.
Since Taiwan is "already part" of China, that would just be internal affairs too.
MAGAs keep saying that this isn't about the oil because the oils fields are inoperative, and it will be at least a decade, and billions of dollars before they are getting any oil out of the ground.
Meanwhile, we've been hijacking giants tankers full of oil, and China, and other countries, have been buying billions of dollars worth every year.
It seems like there is plenty of oil coming out of Venezuela, and always has been. This is all about oil, and that's all there is to it. They can deny it, but they are proven virtuoso liars, and we don't have to believe them.
Unless it's China whose the judge, of course. They seem to find no issue judging the Uygurs as needing to die and Taiwan as their property, or the the South China Sea as their waters, or all the fish in the world as theirs to make extinct.
or supporting Russia judging Ukraine, also totally ok.
It also cannot accept others acting as judges when it finally invades Taiwan.
This also gives justification to North Korea. They've been arguing for ages that they should be allowed nuclear weapons because otherwise the US would come in and force a regime change, and now Trumpsky has just handed them the evidence.
Aren't they only saying that so they can annex Taiwan without interference?
so what if they do at this point? who's to say they are the bad guys if they do it?
Taiwan is America's property in the same way that Venezuela is America's property and Greenland is America's property and Nigeria is America's property and everything is America's property.
Can't be better said.
Imagine if China claimed Hawaii or Key West, and vowed to attack with everything they had if we took back our own land?
For anyone that thinks otherwise I guarantee this opens the door for China to begin their assault on Taiwan.
I'm not so sure it does. China is openly arguing against Trumps logic here, and the US just did demonstrate their military is still highly effective. The US seventh fleet hasn't moved away from Taiwan, and Trump is clearly signalling he intends to keep China down.
I'd argue Xi is not happy Trump decided to actually do something like this, because it increased the risk of his plans with Taiwan as well now that the US is openly hostile and MAGA cheers it on.
China needed him to keep up the whole peace pretense and for MAGA to stay on board with that. Now that that's gone, Trump has cleared the way for more military intervention.
MAGA is actually currently having a bit of a crisis of confidence. One of the promises Trump made was to stop the empire building and international interference. Now he's going around causing an international incident every 45 minutes.
He has gone from saying that it was a single strike, to threatening more strikes against Venezuela, to threatening yet other countries in the last 24 hours.
From China's perspective (and in theory, Taiwan's perspective), invading Taiwan isn't the same, because they both officially recognize One China, they just disagree about who's in charge.
It would more akin to USA invading Puerto Rico, if the governor of PR asserted that they were in fact the proper leaders of the USA.
China also knows that other countries don't exactly share that perspective. And it certainly won't persuade Trump to not continue his anti-China policies.
They're not wrong but also the last thing those assholes want is anyone judging their shitty behavior. Ulterior Motives and all.
Worse, a "world judge" that doesn't accept the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
"We make the rules, but rules don't apply to us."
And china are right in this case. They're just also assholes
Marjorie Taylor Green posted about how invading Venezuela is a terrible idea.
I hate it when I agree with Marjorie Taylor Green.
And now I'm agreeing with China.
Thanks, Trump.
China is an authoritarian dictatorship that tramples human rights and treats its citizens like resources and speed-bumps and treats "free speech" as the joke it actually is.
All that said, they are pulling ahead on the world stage by miles. We don't see it in the US because again... freedom of speech isn't real, media is filtered, but if you travel you see whole other angles on the entire planet and just how much we don't get shown.
For example, you rarely see news about it, but China has launched 3 space stations in the time it took us to make just the documentaries about the ISS and how huuuuge of an accomplishment it was for the world. They are going to be launching probes and setting up smart, realistic goals for exploring the solar system. That's just not the kind high-tech, ambitious, modern project that we associate with our stereotypical imagery of China that we get fed here, but if you actually walk around in any of their new cities you will feel a distinct, sinking sensation that we've already lost.
China is an authoritarian dictatorship that tramples human rights and treats its citizens like resources and speed-bumps and treats “free speech” as the joke it actually is.
if you switched "China" to "The USA" in this sentence, I would have to find details to see if the scale is different but both do exactly the same
Americans still associate China with shit quality merchandise while glossing over that that merchandise is made shit quality because American Importers selected that level of quality and completely ignoring that they make I Phones and other High quality tech.
because you dont want attention when you eventually want to take over taiwan
It would appear that the US got tired of all the jokes comparing them to the movie Idiocracy, so they decided to make themselves into Team America: World Police instead.
And this differs from China with Taiwan in.... Hi e exactly? Beyond the point that China hasn't attacked Taiwan YET, there isn't that much difference.
The US ad China are both always behaving like a bag of dicks and both should fuck right off
We agree, so let's discuss the Chinese police stations in countries that are clearly not China.
Let's discuss the American military bases in countries that are clearly not America.
China is the world's largest economy by every meaningful metric. No serious economist uses GDP as a metric for actual economic production. Can we please at least use GDP (PPP)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
It's still not a good metric but at least it actually allows a means to compare countries to one another more accurately.
The US economy is 10 major tech corporations doing essentially this with AI right now.
