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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same with Taiwan if they had just kept their open for business face on from around the Beijing Olympics and hadn’t gone down the wolf warrior diplomacy path they would be well in the way to peacefully integrating by now. It would still require 20 or so years of positive diplomacy but I thought that was supposed to be Chinas strength… taking the long term view.

[–] severien 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

they would be well in the way to peacefully integrating by now.

I disagree. With the Hong Kong fiasco, any hope for re-integration disappeared.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes Hong Kong was the big reveal but they only had to wait there as well. It all could have happened peacefully if they had just been patient.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, HK was when hope for peace started to die.

Everyone expects Russia to Russia, but as deluded as they were, we still had hopes China could slowly join a peaceful international society.

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