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Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

NaanViolence posted:

You're right. The core of Vietnam (the northern part) was still occupied by China for hundreds of years. That doesn't give China any right to claim it as part of their territory. Same with Xinjiang.

u are objectively wrong about xinjiang so stop arguing about it

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Kurnugia
Sep 2, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo
i don't think feudal relations can really be expressed in terms of military occupation

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

NaanViolence posted:

You're right. The core of Vietnam (the northern part) was still occupied by China for hundreds of years. That doesn't give China any right to claim it as part of their territory. Same with Xinjiang.

Do you consider highland areas of Vietnam as under occupation? Those areas in the 20th century saw decades of insurgency against the Vietnamese state.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
lmao at that picture

https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1286492564590399488

huhwhat
Apr 22, 2010

by sebmojo

NaanViolence posted:

You're right. The core of Vietnam (the northern part) was still occupied by China for hundreds of years. That doesn't give China any right to claim it as part of their territory. Same with Xinjiang.

ive brought some filth from the deep dark recesses of the twitter mines that u loath so much, goon sire

https://twitter.com/coldtakesonly/status/1273739065544884225
https://twitter.com/coldtakesonly/status/1273812937052995586
https://twitter.com/coldtakesonly/status/1273766363522351105

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
so here's the walter russell mead article:

quote:

China’s rise is more than a problem. It’s a puzzle. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, most Western analysts have assumed that China is a communist country in the way that France is a Catholic one. That is, there remain Marxist believers in China and practicing Catholics in France, but Beijing is as little guided by Marxist ideology as Emmanuel Macron is led by the precepts of Pius IX.

That turns out not to be true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvTwv5o1Qs

quote:

While Xi Jinping likely spends little time reading Marx’s “Grundrisse” or debating the labor theory of value with his comrades,




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grundrisse

quote:

today’s China combines a Leninist party structure with state control (if not always ownership) of the means of production, a planned economy, an intolerant atheism and a ruthless determination to hold on to power at all costs. That Beijing incorporates market mechanisms into its communist system is not new; Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy in 1921 to speed recovery from the Russian Civil War. But the Chinese Communist Party—armed with information technology that lets it monitor and control economic activity on a scale Lenin could only dream of—has grafted market mechanisms onto a communist state structure with great success.
"n e o c o m m u n i s m."

i believe china calls it socialism with chinese characteristics. why does the west have to create new names? just call it what they call it.

quote:

Call it neocommunism or digital Leninism—it’s real. And while the U.S. foreign-policy establishment was congratulating itself on the end of history, China grew into a more formidable world force than the Soviet Union ever was. As the Tibetans and Uighurs can tell us, the new system is as ruthless as old-style communism and, thanks to technology, far more effective at crushing dissent.

American policy responses to this puzzling entity will have to take account of the geopolitical, ideological and economic dimensions of the new China. None of this will be easy. It’s unclear, for example, how entrenched the country’s latest bout of authoritarianism actually is. Clearly, under Mr. Xi China has taken a wrong turn. But perhaps in the future, as a result of either foreign pressure or domestic developments, the party might move again toward reform, and a different U.S.-China relationship could unfold.

In any case, America’s goal even in a competitive relationship can’t be to stop China’s economic growth or dictate its political development. The country’s rise is a great moment in human history and the U.S. has no desire—and has no power—to prevent more than one billion people from working toward a better life. Sun Tzu’s observation that the greatest general wins without fighting is still relevant; the best way to win a conflict with Beijing is to avoid it.

Nevertheless, the U.S. relationship with a revisionist and possibly revolutionary neocommunist China can’t simply be business as usual. Countries like China—and Russia—that claim they are actively seeking to undermine U.S. interests and counter American values need to be taken at their word. U.S. diplomats and agents must respond to attempts to extend hostile influence in strategically important countries and proactively defend American interests.

The U.S. can’t treat trade as a purely economic question. In neocommunist China, distinctions between state-owned corporations and private business can no longer be taken at face value. Chinese businesses and investors are under Beijing’s thumb.

https://twitter.com/ClancyReports/status/1284481417167147008

quote:

Given the party’s ambitions, other countries have no choice but to monitor Chinese investment and financial flows, to audit their supply chains for key materials to eliminate any strategic dependence on China, and to eschew the use of Chinese tech that threatens their telecom and infrastructure security. China’s attempts to achieve technological supremacy through theft and illegal behavior pose direct security threats to other countries. These dangers must be addressed, even at significant political and economic cost.

Beijing’s steady military buildup—combined with its expansionist territorial claims and increased efforts to form partnerships with countries such as Russia and Iran—has major implications for the U.S. defense budget. America must scale up its efforts to ensure primacy on land, at sea, in the air, in cyberspace and in outer space sufficiently to deter any rivals.

And while repression is nothing new in China, the extraordinary measures the Communist Party uses against ethnic and religious minorities require an international response. There are many elements of Beijing’s governance that Americans don’t like, but we don’t insist that Chinese practice conform to our ways to have normal relations. The deliberate destruction of ethnic cultures and religious communities, however, crosses a line that the U.S. cannot ignore.

Developing the right policies for this new situation is a difficult but necessary task. Neocommunist China cannot be allowed to dictate the terms of its engagement with a global system that it seeks to destroy.

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

The Yankee regime combines a two party structure with 1% control and cartelization of production, a planned stock market, an intolerant racism towards blacks & a ruthless determination to hold on to its genocidal & racist empire at all costs

susan b buffering
Nov 14, 2016

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

so here's the walter russell mead article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvTwv5o1Qs




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grundrisse

"n e o c o m m u n i s m."

i believe china calls it socialism with chinese characteristics. why does the west have to create new names? just call it what they call it.

https://twitter.com/ClancyReports/status/1284481417167147008

:barf:

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

We're reaching the point where the Wall Street Journal attacks on China are becoming indistinguishable from the Qiao Collective defenses of China.

I'm excited

THS
Sep 15, 2017

Top City Homo posted:

The Yankee regime combines a two party structure with 1% control and cartelization of production, a planned stock market, an intolerant racism towards blacks & a ruthless determination to hold on to its genocidal & racist empire at all costs

THS
Sep 15, 2017

wow sounds like whataboutism to me. so you're saying that the insane racist empire currently destroying the world, led by a demented game show host, can't throw stones from its glass house??

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Atrocious Joe posted:

We're reaching the point where the Wall Street Journal attacks on China are becoming indistinguishable from the Qiao Collective defenses of China.

I'm excited
it's like a particle accelerator experiment. we're going to smash these atoms together and see what happens.

Ferrinus
Jun 19, 2003

i'm finding this quite easy, i guess in part because i'm a fast type but also because i have a coherent mental model of the world
help! i'm being threatened with a good time!

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

THS posted:

wow sounds like whataboutism to me. so you're saying that the insane racist empire currently destroying the world, led by a demented game show host, can't throw stones from its glass house??

:d2a:

huhwhat
Apr 22, 2010

by sebmojo
wow being attacked from both the left and right side of the political spectrum, the ultimate centrist, befitting a nation named the the middle kingdom *bows head reverently* namaste konnichiwa *fart*

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

neocommunism sounds way cooler than 'socialism with chinese characteristics'

neocommunism makes me think of like, vaporwave marx



holy gently caress there's a shitload of this art it's too bad cspam went with a paper theme because vaporwave communism would have been fun

Fleetwood
Mar 26, 2010


biggest hochul head in china
gotta rebrand our enemies now that the American Neo-Confederacy is being established, it's like getting the new season's color trends before they hit the trades

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019

Grapplejack posted:

neocommunism sounds way cooler than 'socialism with chinese characteristics'

neocommunism makes me think of like, vaporwave marx



holy gently caress there's a shitload of this art it's too bad cspam went with a paper theme because vaporwave communism would have been fun

vaporwave communism thread where

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Grapplejack posted:

neocommunism sounds way cooler than 'socialism with chinese characteristics'

neocommunism makes me think of like, vaporwave marx



holy gently caress there's a shitload of this art it's too bad cspam went with a paper theme because vaporwave communism would have been fun
think they're going for this aesthetic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szjxpbGhjTM

and.. uhh not sure about this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTdOnDSPZ_Q

BrutalistMcDonalds has issued a correction as of 09:36 on Jul 26, 2020

sincx
Jul 13, 2012

furiously masturbating to anime titties
.

sincx has issued a correction as of 05:31 on Mar 23, 2021

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

so here's the walter russell mead article:

now that's a name that brings me back to high school. at least he was right about "suicide car bombers and afgan fanatics" :v:

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

sincx posted:

new cold war? nyet!

neo cold war

Новая холодная война

I probably should check out the mainland at some point.

Ardennes has issued a correction as of 21:15 on Jul 26, 2020

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

revolutionary neocommunist China

oh word?

sincx
Jul 13, 2012

furiously masturbating to anime titties
.

sincx has issued a correction as of 05:31 on Mar 23, 2021

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

wait what the fuck??

Top City Homo posted:

The Yankee regime combines a two party structure with 1% control and cartelization of production, a planned stock market, an intolerant racism towards blacks & a ruthless determination to hold on to its genocidal & racist empire at all costs

lol

The wsj editorial section might be the stupidest single outlet of western media. The atlantic and its ability to 'break' stories that have been known but suppressed for years is a strong contender tho

Hedenius
Aug 23, 2007
You might have heard that The United States sanctioned 11 Chinese companies for involvement in human rights violations in Xinjiang. Just a part of the new trade war with China I assumed. Turns out two of the companies were subsidiaries of Beijing Genomics Institute were my wife knows a few people.

The first was Beijing Liuhe BGI. They basically only do sequencing services for research of diseases. Her friends were confused about why that particular entity was sanctioned. They do sequencing for universities and pharmaceutical companies and basically never did anything coming from Xinjiang. But sure, there could theoretically be something shady going on off the books.

But the inclusion of the other company had them absolutely floored. This is the actual text from the US government document:

quote:

The ERC also determined that Xinjiang Silk Road BGI and Beijing Liuhe BGI are enabling activities contrary to the foreign policy interests of the United States through conducting genetic analyses used to further the repression of Muslim minority groups in the XUAR.

Now "Xinjiang Silk Road BGI" sounds a bit ominous. But apparently the whole company was laughing their asses off since "Xinjiang Silk Road BGI" was a name registered in 2016 for a project that fell through. Never employed anyone, never did anything. Opinions were apparently divided about 50/50 between "americans playing 11 d chess" or "another embarrassing gently caress up because some intern lied about knowing Chinese and just used google translate". Like it doesn't even make sense as some front for Chinese intelligence or whatever. You don't have huge public announcements of those kind of things. And it's not like they would need it.

Just bizarre.

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Fuligin posted:

lol

The wsj editorial section might be the stupidest single outlet of western media. The atlantic and its ability to 'break' stories that have been known but suppressed for years is a strong contender tho

as long as they paywall themselves into irrelevance who cares

sincx
Jul 13, 2012

furiously masturbating to anime titties
.

sincx has issued a correction as of 05:31 on Mar 23, 2021

Eox
Jun 20, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
https://twitter.com/ISNJH/status/1287511327095656448?s=20

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/ChinaDaily/status/1287563610751827968?s=20

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/janisfrayer/status/1287604926592385029

Ailumao
Nov 4, 2004

i worked like across the street from it for several years. i think the people who worked there kept this one "mexican" place nearby in business.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/XijinLi/status/1287401474788659200

The automated translation of the tweet reads: "The wife of the US consul in Chengdu compared the evacuation from China to "Jews hiding from the Nazis."

Rabelais D
Dec 11, 2012

ts'u nnu k'u k'o t'khye:
A demon doth defecate at thy door
yeah that's a decent translation and lol what a thing to say. Also, the quality of journalism at the SCMP is absolutely not worth paying a subscription for.

Gaupo Guacho
Aug 5, 2010

by Pragmatica

shovelbum posted:

Every time I come into this thread I'm in awe of China's ability to just.... Do stuff
how is this not an instant ban lol

sincx
Jul 13, 2012

furiously masturbating to anime titties
.

sincx has issued a correction as of 05:31 on Mar 23, 2021

Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.
But who would even be able to tell?

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

sincx in two years, on an NED panel: "I think I may have taken this joke too far."

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014



if only

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Prince Myshkin
Jun 17, 2018
Guy who just found out what a Uyghur was last year:

https://twitter.com/j_arthur_bloom/status/1287126023084150785

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