Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After ‘One-China’ Dispute Deepens
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Re: Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After ‘One-China’ Dispute Deepens
#2Well, that's one way to deal with overtourism.
Re: Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After ‘One-China’ Dispute Deepens
#3Prague had its own version of the Tiananmen square protests in 1968, when the Soviet Union and other members of the Warsaw Pact invaded the country to suppress the reforms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring
Re: Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After ‘One-China’ Dispute Deepens
#4Beijing is slow to realize that trying to strong-arm the West's views on Tibet, Hong Kong, etc will not work, and in fact, makes their international position weaker.
Re: Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After ‘One-China’ Dispute Deepens
#5Beijing is slow to realize that trying to strong-arm the West's views on Tibet, Hong Kong, etc will not work, and in fact, makes their international position weaker.
I guess they’d need Wikipedia and the early Internet culture to know about the Streisand effect.
Re: Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After ‘One-China’ Dispute Deepens
#6Good for Prague. We need more European countries/cities standing up to China.
Re: Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After ‘One-China’ Dispute Deepens
#7Beijing is slow to realize that trying to strong-arm the West's views on Tibet, Hong Kong, etc will not work, and in fact, makes their international position weaker.
China is either the world’s 1st or 2nd largest economy, depending on how you measure it:
https://www.thebalance.com/world-s-largest-economy-3306044
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-worlds-largest-expor...
I think people are slow to realize their new position in the world.
When US and Europe shipped all that manufacturing to China, it created this problem.
Re: Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After ‘One-China’ Dispute Deepens
#8Beijing is slow to realize that trying to strong-arm the West's views on Tibet, Hong Kong, etc will not work, and in fact, makes their international position weaker.
Xi doesn't care, just like Putin doesn't care.
Re: Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After ‘One-China’ Dispute Deepens
#9Well, that's one way to deal with overtourism.
Man, I know what you mean!
Re: Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After ‘One-China’ Dispute Deepens
#10Beijing is slow to realize that trying to strong-arm the West's views on Tibet, Hong Kong, etc will not work, and in fact, makes their international position weaker.
China is either the world’s 1st or 2nd largest economy, depending on how you measure it: https://www.thebalance.com/world-s-largest-economy-3306044 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-worlds-largest-expor... I think people are slow to realize their new position in the world. When US and Europe shipped all that manufacturing to China, it created this problem.
We can manufacture elsewhere, and many companies already are. China needs us a hell of a lot more than we need China.