https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/what-china-wan...
Obviously they project soft power further, but it is based on economic leverage in the same way that the USA has been doing since WW2. For example, that French museum exhibition was dependent on a Chinese museum to do their exhibition. That dependency came with strings. Only a fool would think that means the Red Army is about to invade Eastern Europe.
Are you trying to justify China’s claim about the South China Sea and surrounding areas as “internal affairs” with that blog post?
Whether or not the Red Army will invade Eastern Europe with the excuse of “internal affairs” has nothing to do with my point.
To be honest, if China succeeds in invading Taiwan because of “internal affairs”, they will likely go after Japan and Vietnam next (perhaps with other excuses), even though none of them fell to the Mongol empire.
I’m don’t want a lengthy discussion about what will happen next. I was just pointing out the arbitrariness of “internal affairs”. Sorry if you couldn’t get my point.
If China succeeds, soon it will claim every part of the Mongol empire (including almost all of Eastern Europe and some parts of Central Europe) is its internal affairs, because China considers the Mongol empire as merely one of its dynasties. Remember how China censored a French exhibition about Genghis Khan? [2]
Only a fool would believe their claim about “internal affairs”.
[0] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/21...
[1] https://www.js7tv.cn/news/201806_147250.html (in Chinese)
[2] https://www.france24.com/en/20201013-french-museum-halts-gen...