Could China fight for more pie? Sure. Do they deserve more pie? Maybe. But the idea the US should rubber-stamp all Chinese pie-demands isn’t grasping how abandoning the international liberal order will work
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
My comment isn't really about China, it's about what US elite commentary about China says about the US. And they're worried China will stop them being stupid.
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Replying to @mr_scientism
okay sure i agree with you abstractly in wishing our “foreign policy community” be sentenced to re-education camps in scenic rural Hunan
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @mr_scientism
(but there is a strong case that China is actually revisionist whereas anti-Russian sentiment is 99% meme)
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
I mean, obviously they're revisionist. No country would put up with the Taiwan situation. Or being surrounded by foreign military bases. Or an international order that says its political system shouldn't be allowed exist.
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Replying to @mr_scientism
lol everyone will be surrounded by foreign military bases all the time if we successfully dismantle liberal interventionism
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @mr_scientism
if they were pushing for taiwan reunification while signalling devolution for Central Asia and magnanimity w/ maritime rights that might be different - but right now it is pure expansionism (which is fine, but i understand why US treaty commitments entail opposing them)
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
What do you mean by devolution of Central Asia? Xinjiang?
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Replying to @mr_scientism
like Tibet, Xinjiang, to a lesser extent other parts of Tarim Basin/Inner Mongolia it’s not like PRC is ideologically principled Wilsonian nationalism, so there is no equilibrium pt for their demands
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
I don't think they have any ambitions to expand beyond there. They claim less territory than the ROC.
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:) well, what i’m telling you is that your gut instinct about how to tell whether Xi Jinping is a teddy bear doesn’t line up with the analysis ppl do to determine whether “just this once, honest” is consistent with evidence or BS (in general case)
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