• Gsus4@mander.xyzOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      21
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      6 hours ago

      tramp has chosen to be the enemy of the west and the rules based order, China’s just been having a wonderful time flying under the cover of the daily orange meltdown since the clown show started.

      PS: they don’t even have to do anything, they just have to point at trump and say “democracy, you mean THAT?” And they’ll be using it as evidence against the “chaos of democracy” worldwide.

    • Joncash2@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      14
      ·
      edit-2
      3 hours ago

      No, you’re not understanding what is being said here. The west has always declared China the opponent and they’ll take China on when they finish their other conflicts like Russia. The EU has consistently asked China to stop Russia. China’s just saying the quiet part out loud. Who in their right mind would help you after you constantly called me a threat and told me if Russia falls you’re coming after me?

      Edit for those down voting me, here’s Kallas saying China is next, the person China is talking to in the article.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihQTS1RC50A

      • Gsus4@mander.xyzOP
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        13
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        5 hours ago

        The west has always declared China the opponent and they’ll take China on when they finish their other conflicts like Russia.

        Always? Citation needed. After COVID, maybe? Or did it start with tramp in 2016, maybe sooner at the 2008 olympics? Certainly in 1993 that was not the case when China entered the WTO.

        And of course: nearly nobody in the EU wanted to fight russia or spend more on defense until forced to open their eyes on russia’s reinvasion of Ukraine in 2022.

        • Dammam No. 7@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          7
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          4 hours ago

          Since the Opium Wars. Churchill even talked about breaking China apart a la the Muslim World so that it can never rise again.

          • Gsus4@mander.xyzOP
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            8
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            edit-2
            4 hours ago

            Yeah, that guy’s gone. The policy with China was to encourage it to become the Germany of Asia in the hopes that it would liberalize as it developed. Well…no…shit happens…

            • Dammam No. 7@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              4
              arrow-down
              3
              ·
              edit-2
              4 hours ago

              How about this from 2025?: Kaja Kallas: EU Must Focus on Russia Before Taking on China | Dawn News English

              It is not like Sinophobia and Yellow Perilism suddenly stopped in the West. China sees what the West is doing to Gaza and the Middle East as a whole, and knows if it weren’t for its might they would do the same to it. I see Westerners online openly daydream of breaking up China and post their maps of a broken-up China. Breaking up the Middle East and the Muslim World doomed it for over a century, why would China allow that for itself? They know they are next.

              Also, why is liberalism mandatory? I don’t want my country <insert bad evil illiberal arab country> to liberalize. There are other systems that work just as well if not better than [mandatory] Liberalism. If Chinese liberalize that’s their own business and if they don’t that’s their choice.

        • Joncash2@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          7
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          edit-2
          5 hours ago

          At least since Obama.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_foreign_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration

          Here’s an EU based article saying that really it’s been happening since Clinton.

          https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PaperDetails/25139

          Always as in before anyone currently in power was in power.

          Now, China is just saying what your thinking. If EU isn’t supporting USA on this, we can talk. Otherwise what do we gain from not keeping Russia afloat?

          Edit btw the point of all of this is China is literally telling the EU how to stop the war. Turn on the US

          • Gsus4@mander.xyzOP
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            6
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            5 hours ago

            Yeah, the 1st paper is from 2015, that’s after the Hong Kong protests, when it was finally clear that China was going to stamp out democracy in Hong Kong and Xi Jinping’s new Wolf Warrior diplomacy. Excuse us for being…unimpressed.

            Eh, but I’m not making any predictions, but if russia implodes by repeatedly hitting their head against a wall, you’re cleaning up that mess, not us, he’s your drunken psychotic friend now. We already got plenty scalded trying to rehab them and getting blamed for everything that went wrong.

            • Joncash2@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              5 hours ago

              That was a paper talking about history. That it started before Obama even. Though, as the wiki article states at a minimum it started with Obama. Also, why would Russia lose? The implied threat is your going to be facing down J20s if it gets bad enough.

                • Joncash2@lemmy.ml
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  4 hours ago

                  I’m clear. The EU talks about wanting to stop Russia, but doesn’t actually work with the partner that can stop Russia. That’s as clear as it gets.

                  • Gsus4@mander.xyzOP
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    1
                    ·
                    4 hours ago

                    I guess that depends on what the US turns into…and there is no clarity there… :/

            • Dammam No. 7@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              4
              arrow-down
              4
              ·
              edit-2
              4 hours ago

              The crackdown on the George Floyd protests was far more violent and deadly. You can’t point at China when your own house is a mess.

              • Doorbook@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                2
                ·
                edit-2
                3 hours ago

                Yes any talk about democractic reason to stop China is stupid considering they “NATO allies” are committing a full blown genocide in Gaza.

                In reality China is a natural threat to wealthy people in the west because they have the population and the technology to: 1) fight any attempt to be exploited , 2) Exploit other countries.

                • Gsus4@mander.xyzOP
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  2
                  ·
                  edit-2
                  2 hours ago

                  There are wealthy people in China too (and a disgusting cult of wealth to go with it to make any communist nauseous or any oligarch envious) and they’re obedient little piggies, just like those idiots at tramp’s inauguration