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[escobar]

How is the PLA constrained? It's building up its military strength at a rapid pace and without any limit; you spend enough time on this forum to know that. China is even openly expanding its nuclear deterrent and the only response the US could come up with was putting some (wrong) Chinese flags on an empty table. How laughable.

Quite frankly, the only reason there's peace is because peace suits China's interest. It can build up its military unimpeded, so why start a risky war today when your enemy's going to be a pushover tomorrow.

Yeah, until that day. I don't know what you do for a living, but one field I don't think you're suited for (no offense) is marketing bulletproof vests. I imagine your sales pitch to potential customers would be, "This vest is great! It works every day until the day you get shot."

Strategic patience is all China needs because it's the winning move.

You don't see PLA being constrained. Then all this talk is pointless

 

[escobar]

I see I hit a raw nerve. You got caught out with your first statement. And now you move the goal post. Figures coming from you. Instead of addressing the issues, you attacked the person instead. Sounds like you.

losing a low level ally like afghanistan is what change CN strategic environment?

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

You don't see PLA being constrained.

It's not about what I see, it's about fact. The fact is that the PLA's only constraint is the budget the CPC allocates to it.

 

[Andy1974]

Some people from TW now get it

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1439101731065925633

this is the best way that reunification happens.Taiwan will VOTE to reunify, but this is gonna take until 2049.

 

[escobar]

It's not about what I see, it's about fact. The fact is that the PLA's only constraint is the budget the CPC allocates to it.

Yes not about what you see, as PLA officials themselves often talk about how they are constrained by being surrounded by U.S. forces

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

Yes not about what you see, as PLA officials themselves often talk about how they are constrained by being surrounded by U.S. forces

Playing up the "America threat" in China serves the same purpose as the "China threat" in America: getting politicians to raise military budgets. Show me a link to these PLA officials and what they said.

And don't equivocate. You know (or you should know) that I'm talking about the PLA's build-up, not that it would have to face the US in a war in the Pacific.

 

[Temstar]

You think that because those alliances haven't been tested. Japan and South Korea haven't had to deal with an overwhelmingly powerful China in the modern era, so an alliance with the US has little downside. But China only grows more powerful and wealthy by the day, and soon they and other countries in the region will face a stark choice: Continue in a relationship with an increasingly weak US and face the enormous risk of being on the losing side of a conflict, or ditch the US and switch to the winning side. That's when we'll see the real backstabbing that comes with alliances - when the US loses its predominance.

Yes indeed, there's a Chinese saying for just this sort of situation: 不上秤值千斤，上了秤值四两

 

[Jingle Bells]

Yes indeed, there's a Chinese saying for just this sort of situation: 不上秤值千斤，上了秤值四两

It's funny that I hear a lot of that saying from this geopolitics youtuber named 博通：

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His really good. Sadly he speaks only Chinese, and there are not subtitles in this video .

 

[supersnoop]

Great. They lost a Major Non-NATO Ally. How much the Strategic Environment has changed positively in CN favor. because that's what it's all about

One major strategic change is that without Bagram, the US no longer has any Central Asia military bases. This actually was kind of critical in the the Afghan evacuation since refuelling was not always possible. In addition, it firmly cements the central Asian states back into the China-Russia sphere after a brief flirtation with the US.

 

[Petrolicious88]

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They are trying to get Meng to admit guilt and pay a fine in exchange for her being release. Seems likely another trick though... or attempt to use a guilty plea to advance another agenda

Once you admit guilt, you are guilty forever. Then Huawei is guilty forever.

The bigger fish has always been Huawei. Meng is just caught in the geopolitics of it.