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To: sushiman
You are mistaken. I speak, read and write the language, I’ve lived there. I know their history pretty well, perhaps better in fact than you. The CCP shares with every other governing communist party in history a fundamental belief in totalitarianism. They wield this instinct ruthlessly against anyone who threatens their power, be they Uighurs, overseas dissidents, the American government, that poor guy in Beijing who bravely hung that banner on the bridge recently, anyone.

Yeah, they have officially 55 (or so, I forget the exact number) minorities, but the overwhelming majority of the population is Han. The borders of the CCP empire — except for Mongolia, and parts of it still possessed by Russia — coincide with those of the Qing empire, because that’s the land “China” is supposed to rule. The 55 minorities are there in the world to obey, and to make money for, the CCP leadership.

All countries are “complex.” Their governments are not all as brutal, as repressive, their leaders as eager to cultivate hatred of the foreign as the CCP now is. The next few years are going to be a dangerous time, as the CCP copes with the fruits of its self-imposed isolation and decline even as it tries, with as much violence as necessary, to remake the international order. That order is imperfect, but a lot better than any in which the CCP would be calling a lot of the shots.

That, not bromides about “complexity,” is the reality.

11 posted on 10/28/2022 6:42:51 AM PDT by untenured
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To: untenured

imho the biden admin by constantly baiting the chicoms has unmoored Xi and the communists there.

the sec of state blinken has started to say recently that the chinese have moved up their schedule for the invasion of taiwan.

ya think?

do you have a feel for how soon the invasion will come?


13 posted on 10/28/2022 6:59:56 AM PDT by ckilmer (q)
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To: untenured

Bottom line is , neither the US nor anybody else has any business telling China how to run their country . Ours is far from innocent or perfect . Who has China invaded recently ? Who has the US invaded over the past 75 years ? Always meddling in other countries’ business . Take care of America ; it is disintegrating in front of our eyes and it is not China’s fault .


28 posted on 10/28/2022 6:25:48 PM PDT by sushiman
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