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China’s Ambassador to France Says Ex-Soviet States Lack Basis for Sovereignty
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#22I'm seeing a lot of behavior that can only be described as incompetence among China's diplomatic corps. This contrasts with their pre-Xi effectiveness. Anyone know what's going on? (EDIT: A friend pointed me to this [1]. Not a complete explanation. But an obviously brain dead strategy designed for domestic appeasement, not external goals.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_warrior_diplomacy
It is not a small topic to talk about, but in short Chinese are somehow like a spring. If you behave more gently, they will behave more violently, while if you behave more toughly, they will behave more obediently.
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#23I'm not saying China = Nazi Germany, but I wonder if statements like this came up during the lead up to WW2? Did Von Ribbentrop make statements to the media that "the State of Austria lacks a basis for sovereignty" before Germany annexed the country? I imagine something similar? It often occurs to me to that when you start to put all the pieces together on China the situation is far more serious than most people appr…
Taiwan's fate seems to have been decided already from my POV
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#24Is this a thinly veiled claim by China not only on Russia but also on other ex-soviet republics?
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#25(e: Low) quality troll. Ex 16+1 baltic countries dish hard against PRC sovereignty issues with respect to TW recently but can't take when theirs get questioned. I don't think this is part of some new grand PRC strategy - people who met him while Canadian ambassador said man enjoys talking shit. Same dude who suggested pro-independence TW faction will be getting some re-educating. Eitherway, probably fine for PRC to troll Baltics who are deep in US camp for domestic lulz.
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#26Given that mainland China is a revolutionary government dating from 1948 or so, they should be careful discussing who has and lacks sovereignty…
East Taiwan doesn't have sovereignty to declare themselves their own nation.
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#27If he is also including Russia in this group then I would guess this might be the basis for China reclaiming lost territory from Russia after it loses the war. Today the Chinese are buying Natural Gas and Oil from fields that were once Chinese territory. I'm sure this must really hurt their pride, that Russia stole this land from them.
China deciding to invade Russia instead of Taiwan would be a quality and welcome plot twist.
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#28Of course it does. This is the country that insists that Taiwan is not allowed to exist either.
Doesn’t Taiwan continue to claim rightful ownership to all of mainland China as well? Or has that changed?
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#29I'm seeing a lot of behavior that can only be described as incompetence among China's diplomatic corps. This contrasts with their pre-Xi effectiveness. Anyone know what's going on? (EDIT: A friend pointed me to this [1]. Not a complete explanation. But an obviously brain dead strategy designed for domestic appeasement, not external goals.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_warrior_diplomacy
Yah - usually Chinese government employees are smarter. This sounds like some recycled Russian drivel.
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#30I'm seeing a lot of behavior that can only be described as incompetence among China's diplomatic corps. This contrasts with their pre-Xi effectiveness. Anyone know what's going on? (EDIT: A friend pointed me to this [1]. Not a complete explanation. But an obviously brain dead strategy designed for domestic appeasement, not external goals.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_warrior_diplomacy
China is simply normalizing the notion that borders are ephemeral. Who’s entitled to them and where they are should be left to powerful states, like China, to dictate.
Clearly ... presumably with Taiwan in the background. I don't think the Chinese much care about these territories or Russia's announced, preferred, status except what it means for them domestically again Taiwan.
Surely it's occured to them that maybe Britain wants HK back cause, you know, things are not clear. Not that the British would be that dumb --- but it's an argument that cuts multiple ways none good.
Finally,you gotta believe china sees Russia currently as a giant baby sitting project well considering how that plays well for china.