After Promising to Go Hard on China, Biden Takes a Soft Stance

[FireDragon76]

The facts seem to disagree with this post.

Xi Jinping Says China to Become Dominant World Power Within 30 Years

"Only socialism could save China. Only socialism with Chinese characteristics can develop China," President Xi Jinping declared amid celebrations in Beijing.

www.newsweek.com

Xi ordered China's military to be ready to seize Taiwan by 2027, CIA says

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has ordered the Chinese military to be ready to seize Taiwan by 2027, according to CIA Deputy Director David Cohen.

americanmilitarynews.com

Those aren't facts, just CIA speculation.

China is committed to defending its interests, which is mainly to protect itself against foreign colonization (what happened in the 19th century as western powers colonized and carved up China). That isn't the same as trying to colonize the rest of the world.

 

[Tuur]

I don't think that's a fair or informed view. China is not a particularly militaristic nation. China didn't see the rest of the world as enemies, but as barbarians and uncivilized- to be left alone unless China was attacked by them. And judging by how the British pushed drugs like opium into China, it's not hard to agree with their sentiments towards the rest of the world.

Nations that neighbored China are apt to have held a different opinion. China and Korea have had a long and complicated relationship. Tibetans of today might have a different opinion, too. That China was on the receiving end not only of the Opium Wars but a whole lot more, and yet that wasn't even two centuries compared to a history that's much longer.

Whether or not you we consider the Chinese militaristic really has little to do with a world view that sees nations as enemies or vassals. When the British first arrived to seek more trade access (before the opium), China treated the emissaries as potential vassals rather than equals. That was a mindset, not a slur. You don't erase a mindset that spans centuries with just two of reversal. After all, China had seen reversals before and a restoration of prior things. If anything, thinks like the looting after the Boxer Rebellion and the Japanese occupation would likely only entrench a desire for restoration.

It's not in Chinese interests to invade Taiwan, they would lose valuable trade they depend on. It's also not in US interests to start WWIII over Taiwan.

Plants are in Taiwan and not the US because Taiwan invested in its people and infrastructure. The US did not.

To us it's not in China's interest, but how do the Chinese see it? That's the thing. Who owns those plants means nothing in war. In war, you destroy infrastructure that can aid the enemy. A China that would invade Taiwan would clearly be an enemy.

 

[Tuur]

Those aren't facts, just CIA speculation.

That's my speculation, too, and I'm just a yokel. That fits with Chinese history, and what I'm convinced is the Chinese view of things.

 

[Tuur]

Yes, because influenza is not a new disease, therefore it is not named as a new disease. Notice you aren't getting a "Victoria" or "Alberta" virus shot, etc. but you just get a flu shot. The WHO naming practices are only for "new human infectious diseases," not for new strains of old diseases. I also find the new naming conventions for new strains of diseases to be more worthwhile, using the Greek alphabet to identify the various strains if for no other reason that it makes it easy to see how it progressed (what order the strains mutated in). It is also worth noting, even under current Virus naming conventions -- if COVID had been a virus -- it would be known as the "Bat" virus and not China virus, like the bird flu, swine flu, etc.

It also doesn't ruffle the feathers of a country that was pretty chummy with the head of WHO.

 

[totallylovedbygod]

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