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You don't threaten to invade a nuclear power unless you mean it. We wouldn't mean it. Instead, we have begun decoupling.
Yes obviously we wouldn't mean it.
And they won't notice that?
China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet
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Not until China stops manufacturing everything, and I'm thinking by then it will be too late.
Its not only that, they have many politicians on their books. Even western publications are warry about highlighting what's happening prominently. Today a NYPD officer was caught spying for them. https://abc7ny.com/nypd-spying-baimadajie-angwang-tibetan-of... (caution playing video)
And in an extreme twist of irony, the NYPD officer is ethnically Tibetan.
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#93Han supremacy has all the markings of other supremacist movements and will unfortunately need to be confronted. Not sure when the world will work up the courage to do so, though.
Han supremacy? Laughably absurd. Just because some other cultures have a history of thinking they're better than everyone else doesn't mean that every culture does. Accounts of what China and the West thought of each other survive from the era of Marco Polo. The Chinese thought of Western Civilization with equality and respect. The West's opinion on the Chinese? Barbarians. Every country has its bigots, but suggestio…
This is some grade A+ projection over here. Han chauvinism was so bad that Mao Zedong drafted a party directive specifically to address it.
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Yea war is a terrible idea. Even if we “won” it would come at great cost. The best strategy is to contain them and wait for the inevitable communist collapse. Also, breaking the great firewall would do wonders in encouraging Chinese citizens to stand up for themselves. Hopefully Elon doesn’t kowtow to the CCP with Starlink.
Regardless of what Elon Musk does, very few SpaceX Starlink ground terminals will ever make it into China. Dissidents might smuggle in a few but that isn't going to crack open the Great Firewall on any widespread basis.
Yea you are probably right. But it makes it so that the CCP can’t actively control the ISP directly. Perhaps people will hack together ground terminals or something? Where there is a will, there is a way. In any event, just standing up to China and telling them that we won’t block out service to those who can access it is better than nothing.
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Being alive, eventually.
It appears it’s mostly the language, interaction with various services and institutions, and skills necessary to get a job.
What language? If they have their own language, wouldn't there be plenty of jobs where they can just use their own language?
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#96All the international signaling so far is that they're not willing to do anything about Chinese domestic issues. Other than a critical word (often not even that) at the UN, what have the EU / Russia / SE Asia / Arab states done?
And if no one is even willing to call China out on its shenanigans, why would they stop? They'll just get even more emboldened. HK, Tibet, Uighurs are resolved, so the next stop clearly is Taiwan. If Taiwan's independence is eroded and the US doesn't step in militarily, it's game over.
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#97This could be in response of India creating Tibetan special forces division. India wants to create a Tibetan rebellion in case of war. https://theprint.in/opinion/indias-use-of-secret-guerrilla-f...
This is a separate generalized poverty alleviation scheme that started last year. Tibetan with exile influence gets tossed in the XJ style patriotic re-education system.
Communist always have the best branding.
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I don’t think the US alone has any appetite for a land war in China, nor does the rest of the world. They have such a huge population, it would be very, very hard to win a war like that. If they were to confront China directly, I would guess the US and the west are much more likely to take a containment approach like they did with the USSR.
You don't have to have any appetite for a land war to say you gotta free your concentration camps within 18 months or we have to come invade. It's a million people.
The US had no problem with dead 500,000 Iraqi Children, why should they care for a million uighurs?
What if China says they will release them if we take them in?
Then suddenly there wouldn't be any uighurs but only Muslims and we "know" they are all "terrorists".
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yea war is a terrible idea. Even if we “won” it would come at great cost. The best strategy is to contain them and wait for the inevitable communist collapse. Also, breaking the great firewall would do wonders in encouraging Chinese citizens to stand up for themselves. Hopefully Elon doesn’t kowtow to the CCP with Starlink.
Regardless of what Elon Musk does, very few SpaceX Starlink ground terminals will ever make it into China. Dissidents might smuggle in a few but that isn't going to crack open the Great Firewall on any widespread basis.
I’m taking part in this discussion from inside China. I teach 16 year olds who have Astrill subscriptions (It’s a VPN). The point of the GFW isn’t to stop information getting in or out. It’s to maintain control over what gets discussed and to ensure that all Chinese language cultural interchange of any importance is controlled by the CPC.
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#100Han supremacy has all the markings of other supremacist movements and will unfortunately need to be confronted. Not sure when the world will work up the courage to do so, though.
>Han supremacy has all the markings of other supremacist movements and will unfortunately need to be confronted. Are you willing to sacrifice your life for the freedom of Tibet? I am not
Why were our grandparents willing to sacrifice their life for the Europeans?