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pff just wait daddy trump will fix it soonish....
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
Those countries ask the US, "Mofo with the 'strategic ambiguity,' what are YOU gonna do in the event of a Taiwan war??"
Japan has elections and the ruling party is quite unpopular.
They will keep playing the tough act until the election. After that, they will go back to licking daddy's boots
plawolf
Lieutenant General
You guys are focusing mainly on practicalities and missing the key fundamental difference between China and the west when it comes to meritocracy, which is the attitude of the people towards it.
China is not unique in world civilisation in that the core fundamentals defining features of civilisation survives the fall of past regimes and is enthusiastically embraced and continued by the new. What truly sets China apart is how intolerant its people are to bad rulers. In no other civilisation has the people overthrown their rulers as frequently and consistently as the Chinese when those rulers start loosing their way and become incompetent.
France and Russia are the only European examples where a revolution has actually uprooted the aristocracy ruling class, and they have only done it once, and relatively recently.
In all other civilisations the destruction of the aristocracy nobility also effectively destroyed the civilisation because it was the nobility who ran the machinery of governance, kept the history and records. And without them, there was no continuity of the civilisation, and things got worse extremely quickly after a fall and it took a long long time for civilisation to recover, so much so that what comes after is massively different from what was before.
This is why there is such a massively deep rooted cultural nostalgia about paradise lost and aversion to change in western peoples. They instinctively pine for lost past glory days of the post world war dynamism of the greatest generation; the world conquering dominance of the colonial era; the glory of Roman; the enlightenment of Greece; all the way back to the garden of Eden.
Their entire racial genetic memory and cultural teaching towards governance basically boils down to - don’t rock the boat with change or we risk another collapse and fall further from gods grace. This is why western democracy is held so sacrosanct, with zero tolerance shown to any idea or notion that it’s not the best form of governance that mankind can ever achieve and should not be changed in any way, shape or form. So in the west, while of course meritocracy exists, but it was largely limited to the plebeian masses as a means of rising (a little) above the station of their birth. But the nobility were able to largely keep themselves above such petty concerns and kept an iron grip on the paths into government and power. The self made ‘new money’ titans of industry built western economic and military power, but it was the ‘old
Money’ aristocracy that wielded that power.
In contrast, China’s civil service bureaucracy meant that the Chinese civilisation could easily survive the destruction of unworthy rulers, and things unusually got better quickly after bad rulers were overthrown as the machinery of government remained largely intact and functional afterwards.
This means that for the Chinese, it was not only possible to overthrow the corrupt aristocracy and not suffer a civilisation death, it was usually beneficial to do so. Which is why it happens so many times in Chinese history with the rise and fall of dynasties.
Not only did this allow the Chinese civilisation to refresh and rejuvenate itself much more frequently, it also meant that meritocracy as a concept was universally accepted by elite and commoners alike. When the elite thought themselves above meritocracy, the commoners overthrew them and made new elites who were competent.
It is this extension of meritocracy to the elites that is largely unique about Chinese civilisation. Because while elites from all cultures and civilisation tried to promote competence in successor generations, it was very much pure luck if they got someone capable and hard working enough to be any good, and there was no real mechanism for cleaning up the gene pool of the elites if they fell to decadence and corruption.
What makes this video especially credible is its prediction of American J-16 fighter bombers striking Communist Chinese targets! 
India still trying to start shit with China by backing the Tibet Separatist force. Like some succession issue which imo can be considered another form of war. Can't wait for the guy to croak and India be left holding the heavy bags. But I think its not enough. China needs to really punish India for this. Maybe do more to support the North East and North West to split from India.
One thing for certain is whenever jai hinds or whatever want to say India never did China any wrong, just keep bringing this up and force them to relent on it. If they refuse, you can see where they truly stand.
I'm afraid both you and SCMP are giving the Indian government more credit than they deserve.
India does not have the means to affect politics inside Tibet whatsoever.
Indian rhetoric concerning and support for the Dalai Lama and his entourage amount to nothing more than desperate chest beating intended to keep up false appearances of a strong and relevant India before domestic audiences.
The Chinese MFA inevitably feels a need to declare its indignation when asked about it at pressers, but TBF, it should be beneath the dignity of the Chinese authorities to address Indian patheticness.
Taiwan is on the fast lane to become Ukraine.
Sun Yat-sen statue in Taiwan vandalized by Taiwan separatists. The side reads "China's founding father," and below that it says "disgusting." The front reads "demonic butcher" with "eat shit" sprayed under that.
@DDGeopolitics
Taiwan is bracing for a political shake-up as a majority of directly elected lawmakers from the main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) face the prospect of early removal from office in unprecedented waves of recall votes slated for July 26 and Aug. 23.
The outcome of the public votes targeting 26 KMT lawmakers in the next two months -- and potentially five more at later dates -- could upend the power structure in the Legislature, where the KMT and the smaller Taiwan People's Party (TPP) currently hold a combined majority.
After denying direct involvement in the recall campaigns for months, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) recently pledged to mobilize its rank-and-file "on the scale of a major national election" to unseat the KMT lawmakers.
The DPP's decision to swing its full support behind the recalls has effectively turned what was a nominally grassroots, civic group-led initiative into a showdown between Taiwan's two largest political parties.
Sun Yat-sen statue in Taiwan vandalized by Taiwan separatists. The side reads "China's founding father," and below that it says "disgusting." The front reads "demonic butcher" with "eat shit" sprayed under that.
@DDGeopolitics
Taiwan is bracing for a political shake-up as a majority of directly elected lawmakers from the main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) face the prospect of early removal from office in unprecedented waves of recall votes slated for July 26 and Aug. 23.
The outcome of the public votes targeting 26 KMT lawmakers in the next two months -- and potentially five more at later dates -- could upend the power structure in the Legislature, where the KMT and the smaller Taiwan People's Party (TPP) currently hold a combined majority.
After denying direct involvement in the recall campaigns for months, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) recently pledged to mobilize its rank-and-file "on the scale of a major national election" to unseat the KMT lawmakers.
The DPP's decision to swing its full support behind the recalls has effectively turned what was a nominally grassroots, civic group-led initiative into a showdown between Taiwan's two largest political parties.
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