I am not a part of the West, you're completely missing my viewpoint. It's like I call you an allien when you're not. I don't know if it's out of malice, unexplained anger, or out of what?
On trust me, I won't be sarcastic when I am actually angry.
It's not only economic and technological sanctions, but millitary posturing surrounding China, increasing weapon sales and deals toward countries that are directly going against China, new millitary bases around China, more millitary alliances, more soldiers stationed near China, more frequent freedom of navigation exercices, more US-led exercises alongside alies, more of the highest ranked US politicians visiting Taiwan of the US visiting and vice versa, then a plethora of lower rank politicians of the West visiting every week, de jure treating it like a country, not exaggerating, not just the US, but from Lithuania to everyone else.
Those are nothing but media propaganda posturing. You only see what Western propaganda machine wants you to see, because they are not going to report the other side of the story. These are perfectly convincing for anyone who is not trained in statistics, critical thinking and comparing numbers. In short: these are perfectly convincing for 文科生(non-STEM-educated people).
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ncreasing weapon sales and deals toward countries that are directly going against China": How much increase is that exactly? And how does that comparing to the growth of Chinese military power? If Chinese military strength grows by 100, and the US increase sales by 0.1, how is that not a act of virtual-signaling under the new rhetoric?
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new military bases around China": Where are these? How many did it increase or decrease during the last or 40 years? Isn't Afghanistan also technically around China? Didn't they just abandon that? Didn't the Americans quietly left their bases in central Asia?
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more millitary alliances": with whom? With whom that was not already a US ally decades ago already? What formal alliance did the US newly form around China, except beat the drum to fool common 文科生 like you?
"more soldiers stationed near China" Again, numbers, numbers, numbers! show me your numbers, instead of your empty claims. I am not a 文科生, you can't fool me with a claim without backing it up with real numbers.
"more frequent freedom of navigation exercices", again, to you 文科生s, sailing your ship in international water somehow trumps building actual groups of artificial islands. I guess if I am China, as long as I don't start WW3 and invade the USA mainland, you 文科生s will keep on calling me weak. I don't know how to take this.
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the highest ranked US politicians visiting Taiwan", well, that was aggravating, but I truly thank the US for doing that, which give China the opportunity to literally wipe out the so-called "Taiwan Strait Middle Line" (海峡中线). Before that, PLA aircraft never flew so close to Taiwan shore. So, keep it up. Hope McCarthy will man-up and visit Taiwan again, will make it much easier to do more.
Therefore, it's not only sanctions, it's everything. And no, it's not a small matter that one could simply ignore.
It's not just everything, it is 文科生's entire universe. Their world view are based on these.
China-Iran-Saudi Arabia happened because China increased the its assertiveness as well, in the international stage, it didn't happen because they choose to ignore US posturing and pretended it didn't happen like you recommend. Had they done that, no one would even think of asking them for that kind of a deal.
........... Now you are contradicting yourself?! Wouldn't this make your previous statement a total waste of time? Why bother to bullshit in the first place?
China plans to internationalize yuan even more, grow in power diplomatically and geopolticallly, restore their position in the world from, as the world leader, before the colonialism took over, how do you think they do that? They can't do that by being passsive.
废话连篇!
The matter of the fact is that PLA response after Pelosi visit was an adequate response during the first time, however, In the future, the same response would not suffice, there would be an even stronger response required if the provocations persist for China to keep the international image they've built. They can only either increase the intensity or the duration of the blockade, hence, be more aggressive, not passive. That's like basic logic.
.......... Why on earth do you even bother to contradict yourself? This is a prime example of a totally useless and meaningless exchange of words. Now I feel cheated to even spend the energy and time to respond to your circle of bullshit. Your entire point is nothing but an incoherent collection of gibberish: you claim one thing, and then mention that the opposite of that thing is also true. That's a contradiction.