Faith without works is dead. Not saying China needs to start sinking ships, but unless they do something beyond strongly worded letters, it is, actually, “accepting” what the US is doing.
I’d really like to see China put sanctions on the US over this.
Can they do it? Without control of the reserve currency?
I don’t see what the reserve currency has to do with this. China effectively has a monopoly on production of many essential goods that the US needs. They can just choose to stop exporting them.
What is with the obsession over the reserve currency lately? I had a lib friend randomly spouting off about how China could never hold the reserve currency for… reasons? In response to me saying I might need to learn mandarin to flee eventually as well (I’m joking, I know I could probably never make it happen).
I don’t really get it either, seems like another bit of mythology about American greatness people memorized and are now regurgitating uncritically.
Which is, of course, quite silly. I’m guessing that a counter-hegemonic financial system has already been developed and is very much an active part of the strategy of surviving as a socialist project while global capitalism exists. I just haven’t tried to understand that fully yet. I appreciate any insight you or anyone else might have.
Yeah, the pivotal point was Russia getting kicked out of SWIFT. That forced a creation of an alternate financial system out of necessity, and over past three years it’s expanded significantly within BRICS. The reality is that you don’t need to have a reserve currency, you can just do direct currency swaps. But more importantly, China is basically the world’s factory, and has a massive trade surplus with the rest of the world. Which means holding yuan is useful for other countries, since they can always exchange it for something tangible they need.
china said (implied?) they would help venezuela defend themselves too. let’s see if they end up putting their money where their mouth is.
go ahead and give us some faith for humanity.
It would be nice if China actually did something materially meaningful here.
im glad china is taking such decisive actions
If they don’t sink naval fleet off the coast, then it is either acceptable, or they’ve received some other unrelated acceptable concessions for not sinking the fleet.
There are other options. For example, China could easily cut off the US from critical supplies by putting on sanctions.
You think escalating against Trump is a good idea?
Sinking a navy is not an escalation for an illegal invasion. You can order the US to leave before doing it. Unacceptable has a meaning other than threatening to complain longer. Sinking a fleet is more appropriate and less of an escalation than blockading Taiwan from US trade.
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Correct, Hong Kong is no longer colonized by the UK.
whataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhatabout
nothing China did in HK comes remotely close to bombing and invading a country to capture its leader
go lick boot elsewhere, imperialist
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how is anything China did or didn’t do remotely relevant to this conversation? all you yankees can do is deflect
yeah actually
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Imagine blaming China for the actions of the HKPD.
Also zero deaths caused by HKPD compared to the rising death toll caused by America. Again.
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You’re on a communist website, the fact that a lot of communists disagree with you for similar reasons isn’t evidence of people using other accounts.
22·6 天前Here on my sixth account to agree with myself. /j
You dumb dog, I saw your chickenshit report your made and came over to call you a running dog for American imperialism
Juche Account Duplicacy
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found the colonizer fascist
liberalism served up the old fashioned way: with condescending racism
following decolonization, the CPC has been making moves to address wealth inequality and poor living conditions in hong kong, so yes they aren’t doing wrong, they’re doing quite the opposite actually
The rioters in Hong Kong certainly did do a lot of wrong,
like burning a person alive, stoning a person to death,
placing bombs that would have killed innocent civilians,
attempting to derail a train that would have killed more innocent civilians,
demanding to have no consequences for these murders,
nor for their insurrection at the Hong Kong capitol equivalent,
nor their dozens of injuries they caused on police or
Chinese bystanders they deemed not local enough.Also demanding a murderer to walk free
and not some murderer who “bravely killed the CCP [sic]” mind you,
but some Hong Kong young man who choked his Republican Chinese ex-girlfriend to death in Taiwan,
for being shown a sex video of her having sex with someone else.Even the US insurrectionists of Jan 6th were more peaceful
and less crazy in their demands by comparison.I don’t really like how you characterized the Chinese ex-girlfriend, it seems pretty gross to speak of her that way.
I haven’t checked on the story in a while, so I might not have everything accurate.
I’ll tone down both characters and write from what is known about these two.[edit]
Her actions are actually worse than my characterizations of her.
So I remembered her doing something wrong, but it’s worse than what I misremembered.
I’ll change the story accordingly.The important bit is that she was strangled to death by an incel, not the justifications the incel gave for it.
What!? No!
It seems to me that you’re not concerned at all about whether or not someone is characterized negatively, just who is characterized negatively.
I will remove the word incel from the story as well now.
I’m sorry if you get the wrong idea, but it is no way an attempt to justify his actions.
It is in fact to showcase how hypocritical the black guard movement is.
I’m showing that the motive was non-political,
unless it’s about the type of politics they would have agreed upon,
you know, murder being bad, motive being the other person having done personal bad things,
but in no way justification for murder, and the black guard movement and the DPP,
had been actively blocking the arrest of the murderer of a young woman out of spite.While I’ve seen supporters of the black guard jump at every other opportunity to have a women protected,
the moment it’s about US empire, they turn around on a whim and just ignore this injustice.I don’t understand. You could easily just reword it like
"Also demanding a murderer to walk free and not some murderer who “bravely killed the CCP [sic]” mind you, but some Hong Kong young man who choked his Republican Chinese ex-girlfriend to death in Taiwan [for personal reasons]. "
On to the j6th contrast.
I’ve shortened it.
The most important thing is that these black guard supporters
know that they are going against their own values.
I understand your intent, that’s why I tried to suggest tweaking your language with how you spoke of her. No matter her sexual habits, she didn’t deserve to be strangled to death, that’s the point I was making.
Her doing something wrong? What are you referring to? If it’s having multiple sexual partners, you can get out of here with the slut shaming. If it’s an accusation of infidelity, that’s really a personal matter and we don’t know the details of their relationship. If it’s showing him a video, again, that’s personal, and we don’t know the context.
I’d just remove all detail of what she did, no matter how you phrase it it reads as potential justification. Those details don’t matter.
It is important, because it showcases that the motive isn’t political.
Yes, but it’s the degree of specificity that is irking us I believe. You don’t have to showcase it. You could just say, “the motive wasn’t political.”
I think just saying he killed his girlfriend isn’t taken as “political” but I think killing your girlfriend and killing your girlfriend because she cheated are both actions with a political content
