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AssassinsMace

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The irony is they claim Chinese tourists are bad-behaving yet everyone wants them because they're the biggest spenders in the world. Why would anyone want Taiwanese tourists for them to think they're so more desirable as tourists? A lot of Taiwanese are stereotypically like what you see in banana republics that are pro-US. Their variety shows are hosted by the ugliest Asian middle aged men with crazy hair styles. Do they think they're attractive?
 
Randomuser

Randomuser

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delfer said:
Losing Venezuela is an inconvenience, I’ll admit, but at the same time, it’s fairly meaningless to China.

At this point, China wants to move forward with nearly total self-reliance and independence. They want to make what they need on their own, and if they can’t, cut it out entirely and replace it with something they can. Relying on other countries for imports and exports at this point is merely a bonus, not a necessity. China is now advanced, independent and powerful enough to literally be its own trading partner, customer, and supplier.

And at the end of the day, if China truly needs these countries on its side, it can quite literally sit all this nonsense out while it patiently builds up its military and force-projection capabilities to the point of ridiculous proportions, and simply head out and flip the tables on the US by regime-changing and threatening all the weak, spineless countries that submitted to the US back towards their side.

That’s the thing about countries with no backbone, competence or integrity. You can turn them any direction you want. You just need to scare them enough. I understand that peaceful cooperation is the preferred method, but with countries like this, only power and intimidation does the job.

Today, the US made them cower in fear and turn to their side. Tomorrow, if necessary, China will be the one to make them cower and turn to its side. If all those pathetic leaderships folded under such little pressure, China will be able to make them fold the same way if need be. The key, however, is force projection. You have to be able to get to them first if you want to frighten them into submission.
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There are some idiots who think China has a massive reliance on Venezuela for oil when its single digits in reality.

I mean think about it. Any strategy game you played, I highly doubt you would put all your supplies gathering in one place far away which is very unstable and high risk. No remotely rational person would do that.
 
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Randomuser said:
There are some idiots who think China has a massive reliance on Venezuela for oil when its single digits in reality.

I mean think about it. Any strategy game you played, I highly doubt you would put all your supplies gathering in one place far away which is very unstable and high risk. No remotely rational person would do that.
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Not just single digits. Low single digits.
 
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AssassinsMace said:
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The irony is they claim Chinese tourists are bad-behaving yet everyone wants them because they're the biggest spenders in the world. Why would anyone want Taiwanese tourists for them to think they're so more desirable as tourists? A lot of Taiwanese are stereotypically like what you see in banana republics that are pro-US. Their variety shows are hosted by the ugliest Asian middle aged men with crazy hair styles. Do they think they're attractive?
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Does yahoo have japan office?
 
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han1289 said:
Another 10,000 sqkm of those mountains wouldn't move the needle strategically. This victory is "quiet" because everyone knows its meaningless.



I'm referring to all these world organizations that were gung-ho over Russia/Ukraine. The issue isn't China not sanctioning US over this, it's that the entire world will not take any action, besides some UN statements. It shows that we're past the point of "rules based order" and fully in the era of power politics. And the Chinese leadership, relying on measured approaches and developing quietly, is being caught off guard.
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I mean its 10,000km of tangible territory for China directly that acts as a front against the largest country in the world that is nuclear armed and has imperialist ambitions especially against China. Unlike Venezuela or Syria, this stuff actually directly affects China on its borders. You need to give a much stronger basis for calling it meaningless without further detail. Indians who aren't on BJP kool aid certainly don't think its meaningless and are actually angry at Modi for his silence on it.

We have thousands of people who have died to take this one village you never heard of in Ukraine. Tangible land as long as it doesn't cost much is always something people want.
 
Phead128

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han1289 said:
Another 10,000 sqkm of those mountains wouldn't move the needle strategically. This victory is "quiet" because everyone knows its meaningless.
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Galwan/Aksai Chin is the trigger of Sino-Indian war of 1962 and only major highway route connecting Xinjiang and Tibet. It's the main overland choke point between Xinjiang and Tibet. Lose it, Lhasa can't reach Kasghar/Xinjiang reinforcements. It's as strategically valueable as you can get military wise, the main land defense of Tibet is literally G219 highway which crosses Aksai Chin.

China is capturing 2000 sq km of territory of a strong nuclear power, unlike US getting hyped over clubbing weak countries that can't even fight back. When China takes land, it just does it, and you won't even hear about it because Indian izzat/honor feelings would get embarrassed and hurt.

han1289 said:
I'm referring to all these world organizations that were gung-ho over Russia/Ukraine. The issue isn't China not sanctioning US over this, it's that the entire world will not take any action, besides some UN statements. It shows that we're past the point of "rules based order" and fully in the era of power politics. And the Chinese leadership, relying on measured approaches and developing quietly, is being caught off guard.
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Agreed. China needs to go exponentially increase its defense spending as there is no more rule of law, but rule of jungle.
 
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bebops said:
I read an article last year saying China's true military budget was 700 billion.

The biggest gap they need to fix is the submarine and underwater warfare area. I think they are waiting for 095 and 095 before they start pumping it out like crazy. If it is almost here, then just wait for it.
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I think what you read is equivalent PPP in the USA, about right $700B probably more
 
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