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Originally Posted by tame_deuces
The CCP is an organization of yes-man at the best of times, and under Xi Jinping the authoritarian needle has been cranked to near maximum in party politics. Members of the inner circle or near-inner circle are regularly "disappearing". That's hardly new, but is happening a lot now. That's something that give a lot of international players pause, even those who couldn't care less about China's general lack of respect for human rights.
But also outside the inner circle the current regime approach to any problem has been infamously heavy-handed during Xi Jinping's decade in charge. The current regime are the legacies of those who cracked down on Tiananmen Square in 1989, and it shows. Enormous amount of surveillance, ever increasing censorship, wide-spread persecution of journalists and activists and of course the horror of the Uyghur genocide.
On the business side of thing, the regime has favored increases in state control, giving less room for enterprise. At the same time, the Chinese model of simply stealing foreign IP and technological advances has reached absurd levels.
It's not some Hollywood-moment where suddenly every realizes what was wrong and change their minds, but China is certainly bleeding international goodwill.
Yes. So, I’m an American who at the end of the day would be considered pro American. I have been turned off by the “main stream” narrative for quite some time. Not because it’s “wrong” per say but the way events are being portrayed in foreign policy is too dumber down for me to enjoy hearing about.
I stopped watching Maddow after episode 1 million about “Russia gate” because it was a
stupid story.
There was no substance to the claim that Trump was working with Putin beyond his campaign promises to get along with Putin. Substantively, AmericaÂ’s posture towards Russia did not change under Trump from Obama. And the caricature of the leaders; if trump didnÂ’t have dads billion dollars not only would he not be smart enough to work at a gas station, he wouldnÂ’t have learned how to count and he would wear his underwear on his head and then Putin would call him up from an office in Kremlin drinking vodka shirtless and tell him how to spread white supremacy. And then Xi is a uniquely intelligent Asian leading China to a victory in WW3 through brute calculation.
The reality is that When I hear Putin he is a uniquely intelligent classy statesmen who, while first and foremost protecting Russian national interests, offers unique insights into the problems the world faces today. In contrast Xi seems to be the spoiled one and only sees two moves ahead, locked in a predictable and materialistic flight pattern to nowhere, his ideas are about what youÂ’d expect from a Chinese leader and nothing more.
Imagine if America was In Chinas position foreign policy wise and covered that way.
America builds re-education camps to Americanize Californians and Alaskans. America abuses Californians in camps calls them “ hippies” , human rights violations galore.
America claims foreign nation Florida is their territory, but Florida receives UN status as a state.
Will America bomb Maine?
Some say America could attack Maine by 2025.
Warning America builds first overseas military bases in Bermuda. 2 star general Mr. Zheng, leading one of ChinaÂ’s 23 military bases in Mexico says to cool tensions over the Florida keys
America is going to invade Maine by 2028, will the rest of the world fall too?
Rogue American leaders test nuclear bomb just three hours away from the Mexican border