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The US seems to be pushing for continuing the status quo and showing strength when Xi is clearly making serious short term invasion plans known publicly. The US would probably prefer a KMT government in Taiwan because it simplifies their stance on the Taiwan issue, but if the people of Taiwan choose otherwise it’s not hawkish to try and stand up against serious threats from the CCP. Such a stupid concept “by refusing to disarm and abandon this country you have forced us to invade” Typical commie BS.
The US used to prefer a KMT administration, but not anymore.
So who should we blame now, China for leaving pedo in power or religious people? Obviously the religious ones since China must've gotten a lot of heat back in the day for being a "communist atheist racist" or whatever:
Not defending this creepy behaviour. That being said, this does nothing to discredit the Tibetan independence movement, although I’m sure the CCP is already trying to use it for that.
^ In a way, albeit a small one, it does. It just highlights for an Nth time how crazy religious people are and Tibet is deeply religious, maybe on the "religiosity score" something similar to Afghanistan or Morocco and they have among the worst economies in the world if they were a separate country. Sure you can say North Korea are hardcore atheists and still poor but they're exception to the rule not the norm.
The behaviour of an individual does not reflect the values of the Tibetan Buddhist religion or the population of Tibet as a whole. I think we should get back Taiwan as the topic. If a DPP politician were to have a scandal, they’d resign from the Party and a new leader would be re-elected. Very different situation from Tibet and the Dalai Lama, who is more akin to a Pope-type figure than a politician.
No one wants a war in Taiwan. That’s why the CCP needs to drop the 1C2S demand and go back to the 1992 consensus and back to pursuing “eventual” reunification with no timeline or specifics of what regime it would be under. That is the way to achieve peace. Even the most hardline green politicians are not going to declare independence as a Republic of Taiwan any time soon, so Xi needs to get the Communist Party to hold up their end of the deal and stop these crazy war plans
So who should we blame now, China for leaving pedo in power or religious people? Obviously the religious ones since China must've gotten a lot of heat back in the day for being a "communist atheist racist" or whatever:
to be fair, china actually have laws that ban underage from religious practices.
that child would be ban even if he's there to do a service for Buddhism.
in practice though, they would only enforce if there is actual risk of harming the child emotionally or physically. In which this case would be debatable and should be avoided imo.
To your first point I can agree, but this is the real world. Unfortunately, might equals right in this world. No such thing as rule of law. Powerful nations will always to an extent push weaker nations around to protect or serve their own interest. Doesn't matter if it's the U.S., China, or Russia. No nations can claim the moral highroad. I think the U.S. policies against Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, and Mexico have been horrible, but I suspect most of my fellow countryman wouldn't see it that way. The U.S. simulates invasions against other countries. They call them drills. All nations with the resources make battle plans. I can certainly see how China is viewed as the aggressor in the conflict, though I believe an argument could be made for the U.S. being the aggressor. After all they are funneling billions of dollars’ worth of arms. These efforts seem to be a ploy to provoke China into starting a war. Imagine if China suddenly starting arming Cuba.
The US isn't claiming that Cuba is an inalienable part of America's sovereign territory, or that it is the yearning and desire of all American citizens that Cuba be established as an American territory. America has no plans to invade Cuba, nor does it regularly claim that has a right to, or engage in constant incursions into Cuban waters. For its part, Cuba isn't trying to wage war with the US, or constantly testing American defenses with its own incursions. There's near 0% appetite for conflict between the US and Cuba at this point. If China did decide to arm Cuba, the US wouldn't exactly be happy about it, but also wouldn't start throwing CCP-style tantrums over it.
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