Russia and the CCP?

Do I get paid twice?

Edit: Busted!

What does “Busted” mean? Do you think you’re on an episode of Mythbusters.

Anecdotes are not data. People’s social circles are often echo chambers that don’t reflect the entire population.

the only reason the old constitution hasn’t been amended is because China regularly threatens to start a full scale war if there’s any amendment to reflect the current reality

What makes you think that’s “the only reason”? Because some people on reddit said so?

It’s a lovely place and they’re a lovely people.

That’s the most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard in my life.

But it’s true.

No, of course they don’t have expansionist ambitions, because they consider a large part of Siberia theirs, including Primosky Krai which was ceded by the Qing

This article was literally about China not wanting Primosky Krai, and the president of Taiwan asking why.

You didn’t read the article, did you?

International waters or other countries waters are none of chinas business.

Someone upthread asked how China was blocked in, and I was helping to answer their question.

what’s your take on the massacre on Tianmen square and also the prosecution of the yughurs?

My take is you can’t spell either of them correctly.

My point is that the US has an unusually high degree of control over the waters near China’s coast.

The Opium wars were part of the century of humiliation.

In mainland China, the century of humiliation is considered to have ended in 1949 with the founding of the People’s Republic of China. In Taiwan, the century of humiliation is considered to have ended in 1945, when the ROC became a founding member of the United Nations with a permanent seat on the UN security council. (That seat was transferred to the PRC in 1971.)

Remember Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Philippines and Malaysia are US allies.

It’s a little more than just being allies.

The South Korean military is under US control. (South Korea has symbolic control during peace time, but “operational control” reverts to the US during wartime.) South Korea has been asking the US to give them operational control of their own army for decades, but the US has never done so.

And Japan does not have its own army. As per the US-Japan Security Treaty (which was forced on Japan after WWII), the US military is in charge of the defense of Japan. The US has more troops in Japan than in any other foreign country.

Maybe, but they don’t want any part of that “Han Motherland” you speak of.

I didn’t say anything about a Han Motherland, so I don’t know why you’re using quotation marks.

And Taiwan does desire the reunification of Han areas. Under the government of the ROC.

And the Viet Cong.

who has humiliated China for centuries

A century.

It was the century of humiliation. Not centuries of humiliation.

That’s a weird headline. Guam is part of the United States. It should say they plea to Washington.

Yeah well some of those “Han states” don’t consider themselves “Han states” anymore.

I assume you must mean some place other than Taiwan, because Taiwan is still very much Han.

They want what every country that once owned 1 speck of sand beyond their borders 1000 years ago wants: “Repayment of past injustices!”

No, they want the unification of ethnic Han states, which is why they want Taiwan and not Vladivostok.

Because China has never had expansionist ambitions. I know that goes against hundreds of years of Yellow Peril tropes in Western media, but it’s true.

China’s history has been a cycle of ethnic Han states uniting into a larger ethnic Han state, and then splitting, and then re-uniting. As Han populations spread, those areas would eventually be integrated into China, but China had very little interest in annexing non-Han areas.

Before anyone asks, Tibet was unified with China when both areas were conquered by the Mongols. It wasn’t an act of Chinese expansion.

And Vietnam was considered to be a Han area. The literate classes of Vietnam spoke Chinese and were culturally Chinese before being incorporated into the Han dynasty.

“it’s not fair that the US DARES to talk to other countries anywhere near us!?!?”

I don’t believe that’s what I said.

This would be more like EVERYBODY vs Russia.

I do not share your confidence about that.

Countries with nuclear weapons include China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and possibly Iran. And while I don’t think any of them want a nuclear war, if a nuclear war breaks out, I can imagine three or four of them siding with Russia.

China might side with Russia simply because they’re sick of the US trying to hem them in militarily through the “island chain” strategy. The US has the entire coast of China surrounded by military bases, which could be used to cut off China’s trade routes, which is an existential threat to China because their economy is so dependent on exports.

North Korea has a historical beef with the US, and Russia helped North Korea survive through a period when the US tried to starve them.

India and Pakistan have a long-running dispute over Kashmir, and if India backs the US, it’s possibly Pakistan will back Russia just to oppose India.

And Russia and Iran have been solid military and economic allies for a while now, working together in recent conflicts in Syria and Iraq.

“Relentlessly taxing; burdensome; exacting to the point of exhaustion.”

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grinding#Adjective