Indian state and some Malaysian waters now inside 'nine-dash line'
    • bottle@kbin.social
      102·
      1 year ago

      I mean yeah, but at least they’re not sucking peoples blood.

      Edit: my comment was meant to be a joke about iamascaryvampire’s username. Sorry if people don’t get it ☹️

    • newcockroach@lemmy.worldEnglish
      227·
      1 year ago

      Dude its not just the CCP man even the nationalist party of taiwan have similar policy for expantion but we may never know they would have done if they were in power

      • Wogi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        We’d have been close allies and they would have gotten away with whatever they wanted, likely heavily influenced by Western interests in the region. At some point we would have meddled with their elections, as would have the soviet union, and they likely would have fallen in to a fascist dictatorship, either pro or anti US depending on which superpower won the game. And by today they’d be in a very similar stance, not super close to anyone but closer to the country who’s flag shares the most in common.

  • Pohl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    610·
    1 year ago

    I mean reject all you want but unless you have the force of arms to keep Chinese ships out of those waters… well, them’s the breaks.

    That is not a defense of Chinese imperialism, just the reality of how human tribes control territory.

    If only those countries had strong ally that could easily enforce the treaties and international law. I bet modi had fun at the BRICS party. And TSMC killing that fab in AZ is surely in the best interest of the TW people.