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Great that they're supporting Palestine diplomatically I guess, but so far they're still trading with israel, even if with some "bureaucratic obstacles"
I guess that's the drawback of positioning yourself as an alternative to the US that doesn't interfere with foreign politics. The USSR was openly funding armed Palestinian resistance like the PFLP.
Yeah, the fact that China continues to have relations with Israel is a really bad look.
The USSR was openly funding armed Palestinian resistance like the PFLP
China was doing that for a long time, too :(
I guess that's the drawback of positioning yourself as an alternative to the US that doesn't interfere with foreign politics.
That right there is why I'm really worried about the next 4 or more years right now as a citizen of the USA. Like, we're just going to create this power vacuum through dumbass Don's executive fun time and China will happily exploit that and lap up the material rewards.
I feel like I'm watching a game of Civilization get played by a moron. It's excruciating. Only way any of it makes sense is that Trump literally is a Russian agent because otherwise why the fuck is he trying to drive our country off a cliff?
The previous president was a literal zombie. At some point you have to realize America is ran by billionaires who do not care about anything except short term profits
No war but class war, not disagreeing there, but also it's pretty clear there are policy changes and consequences for our elections.
I'm amazed how quickly my personal negative feelings about China are getting diluted right now.
Let's not forget that China is actively engaged in political and information warfare against the West. Any hypocrisy they can point out will just contribute to the fracturing of alliances between the West and the rest of the world. So it very much benefits them, strategically and financially, to point out stuff like this. Not that I think the people of Gaza will care about the selfish reasons a superpower might have for speaking up for them
If they want to score brownie points by supporting human rights who are we to stop them.
America should counter the Chinese propaganda by advocating for a one state solution called Palestine.
That's literally what USAID was for. For spreading anti-communist, pro-capitalist, sentiment by feeding the needy. Until the world's ~~evilest~~ richest man got rid of it and showed how nakedly corrupt the US political system is
USAID’s feeding of the needy was a fig leaf over its more nefarious work.
It was no secret that USAID was an arm of the State Department and used as a smokescreen for CIA business. But that won't matter to all the mothers who will watch their infants die because Musk pulled the plug with no warning
Obviously not.
USAID was also to send weapons to overthrow countries, and bribe countries into abiding by the US will, and stage color revolutions. To send money into the pockets of Elon for Starlink etc.
Not to deny that people were not helped by it, certainly people were, but overal USAID was a net negative on the world.
I think it's important to make such arguments without neglecting to point out that some very real, very desperate people are counting on the assistance USAID currently provides. People will die because of this.
A much less evil way to handle this is to reroute the funds to some benign organisation who will carry out the existing functions of USAID. But that's not what Musk is doing. There's no nuance. Much like his first month at Twitter, he's just taking a wrecking ball to the government and seeing what's left standing. Unfortunately the largest imperialist arms of the US government (State Department, DoD) are still left standing, while the one that is currently relied upon by some of the most desperate souls on the planet has been destroyed.
Let’s not forget that China is actively engaged in political and information warfare against the West.
BlueAnon conspiracy theorist has arrived
For the record, every major country is enagaged in Political Warfare against their enemies so I've said nothing controversial. Secondly, China is not inherantly bad or inherantly virtuous. They participate on the global stage just like everyone else, so you should ask yourself why you immediately dismiss China's agency here. Finally, and most importantly, China's approach to Political Warfare is laid out in the Three Warfares doctine, and has been well-documented. You can read more about it here if you're really interested acting in good faith: https://sci-hub.ru/10.1080/01402390.2013.870071
If not, you can continue to label people who say things you don't like as conspiracy theorists. Oh and I'm not a Democrat, I'm probably further to the left than most people on this app but I don't worship or apologise for vast and powerful nation states. Whether that's China or anyone else.
Edit: spelling
Don't worry, they're still abusing minorities in their own territory
I love how effective Americas anti-china propaganda is that anyone can simply refer to the Uighurs to counter any pro-china statement.
Big bad china must have gone into a bunch of mosques and taken the nice Uighurs into concentration camps because china hates Muslims, or something. Surely nothing else had happened.
Ah yes, the classical "only their actions matters" response that all racists use
Yup if we're expecting any wealthy and powerful person anywhere to do the morally right thing we'll only be left standing out in the rain. But it's not rain. It's piss. Turns out every civilization that killed the wealthy and powerful when times got tough ultimately took the only path weren't so backwards.
Yeah, that seemed like a big deal a few months ago. Now it just starts to look like they were ahead of the curve.
I wonder when the non Western world will finally drop the "two state" boondoggle. Obviously the West will never give it up, but surely people on the outside can see how it's not a real solution?
Talk is cheap. They could at least put sanctions on Israel.
Xi can you please end trade with Israel, handle rebuilding of Gaza, and fill it with all your best missiles? Pllzzzzzzzzz
Turkey is surprisingly quiet here.
This is rich from someone who was just a few days ago excited that Trump had taken over. Claiming that things were better in Palestine because Trump was president. You credited him with the ceasefire, food and aid in the streets, and crowing about how smart you are to have not voted for Harris.
