U.S. issues China travel advisory amid increased tensions

Re:U.S. issues China travel advisory amid increased tensions by yourbandsucks on Thursday January 03, 2019 @03:22PM (#18818932)

I mean, in the long arc, sure, but I'd really like to not see it get there.

The Huawei thing just seems so avoidable. We renege on a deal with Iran that the Iranians were honoring, we start a trade war with China for mostly domestic-political reasons, and then we lump the 2 together into a justification for borderline-kidnapping of their citizen in Canada?

Whatever happened to getting together at the table and negotiating about this stuff?

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Re:U.S. issues China travel advisory amid increased tensions by joejerryronnie on Thursday January 03, 2019 @03:33PM (#18819016)

Not that I disagree with your reasoning (and that going after Meng Wanzhou is a strange and seemingly unnecessary escalation), but China does not really negotiate honestly or play by any set of recognized international rules. I guess you could say the same of the US, but then you see the dilemma.

My, unfortunately cynical, takeaway is that no matter how “woke” we like to think we have become as a global society, everything still eventually boils down to might makes right.

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Re:U.S. issues China travel advisory amid increased tensions by chillacy on Thursday January 03, 2019 @09:28PM (#18821485)

Germans called it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik

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