Thoughts?

Is this imperialism by China, a country which is supposed to be left-wing? Leftists are normally anti-imperialism. Wouldn’t it be better to let Taiwan democratically decide whether they want to be part of China or not?

  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 hours ago

    This is a declaration of war IMO. By one old dude against the whole world order (the international laws).

    • frongt@lemmy.zip
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      6 hours ago

      China and Taiwan are already at war. The Chinese civil war never had any truce, armistice, surrender, or anything. ROC pulled back to Taiwan, PRC didn’t follow, and then it just stopped.

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      10 hours ago

      As the US has known for some time, the international order only applies to poor countries. Like a spiders web ensnares the fly but allows the pig to tear straight through

      • REDACTED@infosec.pub
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        4 hours ago

        Why does every fucking topic, no matter how far it is from US, ends up with someone ranting about US?

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            5 hours ago

            As an American I’m happy to see China kept in its place until it can compete with America on the human rights it gives its citizens. America might exercise ill-acquired and unethical hegemony over the world at times but apart from maybe the EU theres not another superpower candidate I’d trust more with that hegemony.

            • bigfondue@lemmy.world
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              4 hours ago

              As an American I want my tax dollars to go toward something other than murdering civilians overseas

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                3 hours ago

                Oh, same! Yeah we’ve got a lot to do to fix this country, for sure. Kind of exciting to know we have the opportunity to fix how we want it considering the unprecedented dysfunction