The leader who's standing up to China(reuters.com)
reuters.com
The leader who's standing up to China
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/taiwan-china-tsai/
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Curious, why do they describe her as a technocrat when her background is in law?
"Technocrat" doesn't necessarily imply "technologist". It's like the more colloquial "wonk", i.e. someone who's more interested in the minutiae of policy rather than party affiliation or personal aggrandizement.
Offtopic: dear god that article is a design trainwreck. I don't think I've ever been more thankful for Firefox's reader view.
Offtopic: dear god that article is a design trainwreck. I don't think I've ever been more thankful for Firefox's reader view.
I thought it usually implies a Subject Matter Expert, rather than someone who dabbled too much in policy
The constant onslaught of US "news" drumming up war on China and Russia is very scary. The production value of this site and the detail of its design are a problem. Reuters is a problem. This is indeed war propaganda. I do think the United States is on the offensive in this "cold war", and they they want it to be hot. United States foreign policy has historically been, let's say, less than helpful. I really do not believe China is a threat to the world.
What exactly is there to stand up to? Why not cooperate with China for mutual good? I believe Chinese leadership when they say all they want is a more multilateral world. US simply can't stop being world hegemon. Looking at the way people post both on this site and on Reddit about China, it's all same old Yellow Peril racism if you ask me. Really getting sick and tired of everyone just uncritically taking in US war propaganda and jumping on the war wagon.
What exactly is there to stand up to? Why not cooperate with China for mutual good? I believe Chinese leadership when they say all they want is a more multilateral world. US simply can't stop being world hegemon. Looking at the way people post both on this site and on Reddit about China, it's all same old Yellow Peril racism if you ask me. Really getting sick and tired of everyone just uncritically taking in US war propaganda and jumping on the war wagon.
> I really do not believe China is a threat to the world.
Tibetans, Uighars, HKers and citizens of almost all the countries that share a land or sea border with China will disagree with you.
And so will all the countries, such as Lithuania, and private companies who have been forced to toe CCP line.
I can keep going on…
Tibetans, Uighars, HKers and citizens of almost all the countries that share a land or sea border with China will disagree with you.
And so will all the countries, such as Lithuania, and private companies who have been forced to toe CCP line.
I can keep going on…
> I believe Chinese leadership when they say all they want is a more multilateral world.
They say but don't do it. China's behaviour towards Canada, Lithuania and most of Eastern Asia is anything but multilateral. It is plain and simple imperialism.
They say but don't do it. China's behaviour towards Canada, Lithuania and most of Eastern Asia is anything but multilateral. It is plain and simple imperialism.
Repeat after me, Mr Robot: Premier Xi looks like Winnie the Pooh. What? I can't hear you!
> Reuters is a problem.
Any independent news organization is a problem for the CCP.
Any independent news organization is a problem for the CCP.
Well, as a matter of fact, any independent news organization is a problem for any modern government. CCP and US establishment are equally fearful of independent news organization. For example, Assange and wikileak.
I guess you mean that President Trump closed down CNN because it said so much against him, just like President Biden has closed down Fox News.
What? They didn't?
What? They didn't?
I'm not old enough to read mainstream news during the 80s, but learnt that there was a period of anti-Japanese fear mongering due to Japan's rising economy. It caused riots, burning of japanese products, and street violence to people who looked like Japanese.
I'm not too worried about war between nuclear powers, but I do fear for Chinese and Chinese-looking people living in the west.
I'm not too worried about war between nuclear powers, but I do fear for Chinese and Chinese-looking people living in the west.
We should all worry about the kind of people who would harass Chinese looking people in the west, but as someone in Australia, I’d like to assure you that while it is definitely very hard to move to a new country, a new language a new culture, and there are racists everywhere who tend to be loud and impulsive and hurtful, people here are deeply proud that this is a place where people from around the world have been able to come to make a life and contribute their culture. With each wave of immigration there has been initial wariness and eventual embrace. If you ever get the chance to come to Melbourne, ask people about the post war Vietnamese migration, if you read the media from the time you’d think there was hostility towards Vietnamese, what you’ll actually encounter is pride that Vietnamese are here and a real love for the Vietnamese people. Read about the visas given to Chinese students after Tiananmen, and the pride people have in the hybrid Indigenous/European/Asian culture of Broome which was exempt from the White Australia Policy, and you’ll see the world people want is a very different place to the fearful place our national leaders are dreaming for us
By all means down vote, but please take the time to say why
> Why not cooperate with China for mutual good?
This works until it doesn't. "American exceptionalism" is not unique to Americans.
This works until it doesn't. "American exceptionalism" is not unique to Americans.
Yep just another piece of the Manufacturing Consent apparatus, this one seems more of just a puff piece though.
“Peace for our time”, right?
Russophobia is omnipresent in the Western press too. It is simply another form of racism.
Speaking as a Latin American, Russia is just another banana republic with 100 million people and nukes.
> simply another form of racism.
That's just plain stupid. I fear their authoritarian and murder leader, I don't fear their people.
> simply another form of racism.
That's just plain stupid. I fear their authoritarian and murder leader, I don't fear their people.
I don't think it's racist to be worried about a nuclear power colonizing its neighbors.
Superpower logic is far too cold for terms like colonizing. There is very little focus on such ideological by-products of power when the General Staff makes its considerations and recommendations for the security of the state. If you think in terms like these, from some liberal shitlib university, against military superpowers who can guarantee MAD with nuclear weapons you are not going to make heads or tails any of it.
It is best to purify your mind and just read Thomas Schelling.
It is best to purify your mind and just read Thomas Schelling.
I‘m a Russian language learner for many years. When you listen to Putin what he tells his Babushkas, you now you cannot trust him one word. BTW, I recommend to listen to him as a learner: He speaks slowly, very articulate with clear pronunciation, so he can tell Babushkas that foreign power are threatening Russia.