Comment by lostlogin
Comment by lostlogin 5 days ago
China is threatening invade other places, which are of more value to them.
Comment by lostlogin 5 days ago
China is threatening invade other places, which are of more value to them.
America's history is basically one long story of internal divisions, briefly overcome primarily during economic booms. The last economic boom, the computing/internet boom, was particularly long lived and helped create the longest window of internal stability we've had. That boom's coming to an end, and the era of stability it brought probably isn't that far behind. And this is before you even stop to consider things like social media which helps amp up and accelerate divisions by orders of magnitude.
>China is threatening invade other places...
Taiwan and where else?
There's also the whole South China sea thing, where they're making claims on international waters and the territorial waters of their neighbors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_So...
But I have a feeling your position is basically "Except for all the cases where they're threatening their neighbors, they're not threatening their neighbors at all."
Arunachal Pradesh.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna245797
Tibet and Xinjiang already conquered and we have forgotten about them.
Pretty much anything that happens to abut the South China Sea.
I suppose you could also make the argument that they already did invade Tibet and Hong Kong, though that's splitting hairs.
Hong Kong was always Chinese, and was leased at gun point.
The government that leased it couldn’t really have less to do with the government that took it over in recent times. Things got considerably worse for Hong Kong, and the citizens didn’t want to join China.
It’s certainly not a given that donating it to China was the right call.
And now the agreement that they'd be given a more liberalistic government is being torn up at gun point.
It would not surprise me in the least to discover that China is the true source of the current internal attack on the US, and Russia is a cut out.
It would be efficient for China to have Russia undermine the US while Russia also weakens itself.
China has made huge inroads in Africa, which gives it access to essential metals and other raw materials, and also puts it in a strong position diplomatically.