I agree with China.
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And when China of all places has the balls to tell you this, you know you done messed up.
Trump has only set a precedent for China. If the rest of the west doesn’t do shit about this, which they won’t, China will just follow Trumps playbook. Don’t be surprised when Xi will order the kidnapping of the Taiwanese president.
The fact that they went with “Trump broke international law” instead of “America's unilateral actions validate our unilateral actions” gives me some hope (for lack of a better word) that they're going for a diplomatic / economic victory by trying to take the vacated US place as “leader of the free world” instead of going full Trump/Putin on a world that's already got enough shit to deal with.
The end point is still the same, of course, and I'm pretty sure it's not a very good one from an European citizen's point of view, but at least this would take longer and be less violent overall, and might help defuse Putin and Trump.
the US is making it more easy than ever for China to set itself up as the new world reserve currency/police/center of stability.
china works towards china's self interests, they're predictable but ultimately easy for the west to respond to if they stop ratfucking for a split-second.
you can't say remotely the same for the US, the US is an abusive partner that smacks you around for 4 years then gaslights you things are different (while still smacking you around) for 4 years, repeat
China will just follow Trumps playbook.
Why would they do that? His playbook is dumb and routinely backfires.
Seems like they're stick with their existing playbook as it has been far more successful
Something like that will happen. The US is trying to ruin China's oil imports - from Venezuela and Iran. China will need to show they are serious.
USA acknowledge and support One China Policy when it became convenient for corporations, under Carter. Now it's inconvenient for the same businessmen and regular people continue to dance on the strings of the uberwealthy puppetmasters and the rich who leave nations because of personal wealth either being affected or potentially affected. Same with Batista Cubans, Venezuelan and Chinese expats.
And there is also a reason so many Vietnam vets now reside in Vietnam, full time.
China isn't wrong.
Hey, what about those Epstein files?
The US has been scheming on taking Venezuela for at least two decades. But you are very smart for pointing out this action was a distraction from the pedo files.
Like, I think what the US has done is illegal, but it's pretty rich coming from the country of hostage diplomacy.
Is it time to build an allie to stop Orange Hitler? Nah, let's wait until he takes Greenland and Panama next.
I wait until Putin says something I have to agree with. What a world we live in, where the US is suddenly the revisionist state, not complying with world order
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