NorthOfNorth wrote on Jun 10
th, 2021 at 12:36pm:
Ah, no, I didn't completely ignore his comment, I was making the point that the militaries of all nations tend to be trained through the strategies and tactics that proved successful in a war previously won (or lost). As a Chinese regime shill, you would know that the 'cold war' being fought now is via cyber-attacks, something Hitler, Stalin and Mao did not have at their disposal. Bringing down the infrastructure of the enemy via a cyber attack is how the next 'war' will be fought at least in its first and maybe second act.
And the "third act"? You think those nukes will be left idle?
.. and what kind of an utter fool would rush to fire nukes first.. especially a fool with a dense population?
Quote:All empires have lost territory historically, why should the Chinese regime get back what it had historically? By that logic, the Mongols could demand their empire back, or the Japanese, or the British, or the Italians, or the Greeks, or the Persians etc... etc.. etc...
The issue is the passage of time. The Qing collapsed in the face of European technological superiority
only 100 years ago. Your chance for democracy after getting rid of the corrupt ruling cliques and you stuffed it.
Now the tables have turned, and the democracy ideologues can't rampage through China in the same manner they did in 1900.
Meanwhile Israel was recreated in Arab lands
after 2000 years. ....without the agreement of the Arabs.
But you are right to the extent that since 1946, "the acquisition of territory by force is inadmissible" ...EXCEPT the "freedom" (individual sovereignty) ideologues forced the veto onto the UNSC, thereby rendering it incapable of defending the new (post WW2) vision of an
international rules-based system. ...
Quote:The regime is doing nothing for the world with the BRI that does not ultimately serve the purposes of its want of monolithic world domination.
Nonsense as expected from a blind democracy ideologue. China is not interested in empire, it is interested in global development because it benefits everyone - unlike the "America First" ideologues in the US who rendered the IMF incapable of international development. In contrast the Chinese actually build infrastructure.
Quote:All Uighurs in mainland China are, by their ethnicity, suspected of being separatists (neo foreign devils).
Guilt by association... group guilt... absolute reversal of the rule of civilised law. The West got rid of the loonies there, then the Japs, to help you on the road to democracy - and you stuffed it.
Some of them ARE separatist terrorist ideologues, like other islamist organizations in Africa, M.E. and Asia.