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[luosifen]

They're now back home:

 

[56860]

Never heard about the Church of the East. That's very interesting...either way, whatever allows Christianity with Chinese characteristics is how China should approach it.

As long as religion propogates loyalty to country and party as its most importabt commandment, I have no problem.

 

[texx1]

should read the original. it reads nothing like how they claim it reads.

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The link in Taylor Fravel's twitter post led to the same article your posted. They are right in the sense that Chinese official readout doesn't contain words Ukraine (乌克兰), no limit partnership (中俄关系无上限) or unilateral sanctions (单边制裁). Going by key words alone they are not wrong. Although, analyzing the entire statement could result in different opinions.

 

[zhangjim]

I came across this interesting article describing Church of the East recently, which apparently had a long history in China. Would Church of the East give more influence to China compared to other sects of Christianity?

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Completely lose influence.
They have been politically cleaned up many times in history.
This religion has been confined to a very small group of believers: ethnic minorities.
Moreover, missionaries also face many problems: poor translation, the theory of original sin contradicts the theory of good nature in China, and too much borrowing of Buddhist concepts leads to being regarded as Buddhist heresy.

So the spread of Christianity in China later had nothing to do with Nestorians.

Out of all the Christian sects, China should encourage the Chinese Orthodox Church (which was granted autonomy by its mother church, the Russian Orthodox Church, in 1957) over the others. Unlike Catholicism, where the Pope is sovereign, the Orthodox practices Caesaropapism where the head of the church, the Patriarch, is subordinate to the head of state. Protestantism does not believe in any hierarchy as the relationship with God is personal and so disavows the Pope or any other authority over individual views on morality. The Central government is better able to exercise power with Orthodox Church to keep down the more Western influence via Catholic and Protestant sects and grow even closer to Russia and Eastern Europe.

The problem with this assumption is that China has been guarding against Russian influence. In China, the spread of Orthodoxy was completely dependent on the expansion of Russia.
And the atheist dominated regime is also unwilling to see the church encroach on social leadership.The influence of the Church has never been limited to within the church.

 

[zhangjim]

I concluded the same.
Reading the leaves, it seems that China won't give the same treatment to Russia as it did before (basicaly treating it as an equal miltary/economic/diplomatic/sphere of influence power)

The next 6-12 months are going to be interesting, I very much think we will see further signs of this happening in the near future

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1570481479989497859

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1570426774328074242

I don't know what they care about.

China will work with Russia to extend strong mutual support on issues concerning each other’s core interests

I think this sentence is enough to express a lot of things.
However, the visit in recent days shows that China is bound to gain more influence in Central Asia.
In China, an often surprisingly vocal civilian (considered a crazy guy) called for an early agreement with Russia on the distribution of interests in Central Asia at the beginning of the war.
Clear interest demands can reduce unnecessary suspicion.

 

[Temstar]

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I remember there was that meme going on in reddit about China will collapse in 30 days or something? What day are they on now?

 

[solarz]

Off topic but Sometimes I forget how big Russia really is, or Kazakhstan for that matter.

The sizes are misleading due to the Mercator projection.

I remember when I saw this giant Earth globe at my local science centre, it was the first time I realized how big Africa actually was.

 

[56860]

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[daifo]

Feels familiar...

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[Nutrient]

Isn't CHIPS 4 a textbook example of government subsidization?

That's the rules-based order -- whatever rules the US wants, it gets.

Countries around the world are realizing that the US dollar is part of the rules-based order: those who make the rules can steal your money from you when they feel like it. The trust is gone.

So nearly everyone is dumping the dollar, slowly but steadily.

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, to 71.5% in 2001, to 66% in 2014, and to 58.8% in the fourth quarter of 2021. I would love to see what the percentage is now, after $300 billion got stolen from the Russians.