Decoupling isn't phoney – The global trading system is starting to rearrange

Re:Decoupling isn't phoney – The global trading system is st... by bllguo on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @02:23PM (#37326612)

of course, forget the history behind the formation of Taiwan. forget that the US props it up to maintain a military enclave where it has no right to be, in order to threaten China. it's just an innocent independent democratic people that China seeks to assimilate for no legitimate reason!

Even _without_ the historical context it is completely justifiable from a national security perspective to push out the military presence of the most aggressive nation in the past century.

Lastly - the gall for an American to invoke "self-determination" after its track record.. simply incredible. We are what, one week removed from the leaks re: Imran Khan?

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Re:Decoupling isn't phoney – The global trading system is st... by sdfghswe on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @04:53PM (#37328953)

> forget the history behind the formation of Taiwan

> where it has no right to be

Would you like to tell us your version of history according to which Taiwan has no right to be? Because in the one I'm familiar with, one of the factions fighting the civil war won almost everywhere but failed to invade that island.

The fact that they've resisted and survived certainly gives them the right to be, by definition.

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