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More lies from China: "South Tibet" is as fanciful as "the Chinese province of Taiwan" and the "ten-dash line."

India has the right idea with China: ban Chinese apps; screen/block companies and strategic investments; refuse China's requests in other areas until the border is settled; and fight back when China physically attacks (ex. at Ladakh and Doklam).

The only surprising thing here is that the CCP is using the name "Tibet" when it's trying to erase the name and culture of this country it is brutally occupying. I guess they've told so many lies that even they can't remember them all.

https://worldcrunch.com/world-affairs/tibet-xizang-name-change

JJEToday 05:04 pm JST

Being confined to a rusty, asbestos ridden hulk that is illegally grounded

As I say each time you regurgitate this falsehood: there's nothing illegal about the Philippines putting a Philippine ship in Philippine waters.

WoodyLeeToday 03:00 pm JST

The world has yet to meet a democratically elected leader who wishes harm to Democracy.

There have been plenty. Orban, and Erdogan are in power right now, for example. (Though their recent elections have been a total sham, originally they were somewhat fairer.)

Trump would likely be even worse than them.

Mr. Zelenskiy better start thinking about the HUMAN cost

He is. He's trying to stop Russian invaders killing his people. As is NATO, and the free world.

deanzaZZRToday 02:54 pm JST

Because Lai effectively called for Two Chinas or One China, One Taiwan. The PRC will never allow this to happen.

It's not for the PRC to decide; it's for the people of Taiwan to decide. And the people of Taiwan overwhelmingly reject rule by the CCP.

You don't "punish" someone simply for speaking to their electorate about the platform which that electorate just endorsed (unless you are a brutal dictatorship, like the PRC).

Or perhaps, to be on the safe side, Lai should've just held up a blank piece of paper instead? (Oh, wait... that's "bad" too.)

China "allowed" the Philippines to operate legally in its own internationally-recognized waters? How magnanimous of the Emperor.

a claim Manila's coast guard said was "ridiculous".

Exactly right. Xi may be more suited to stand-up comedy than brutal dictatorship.

deanzaZZRToday 01:52 pm JST

Reagan's White House agreed to decrease arms sales to Taiwan over time. White Man speaks with forked tongue, indeed.

Your information is from over forty years ago.

Things tend to change when an adversary (and China is, despite the diplomatic niceties) assumes an aggressive posture, implements the fastest and most opaque military build-up since WWII, and repeatedly lies to you (ex. we won't militarize the SCS, we have ratified UNCLOS, we'll honor the Sino-British Joint Declaration, we won't cyber attack you, we'll provide full disclosure on COVID-19, etc. etc. etc.)

Another day, another needless provocation by the totalitarian menace that is China.

In May, days after Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te took office, China launched war games around the island as "punishment" for an inauguration speech that Beijing called a "confession of Taiwan independence".

Sums China up perfectly: "punishing" someone for an election speech.

deanzaZZRToday 11:27 am JST

As the Shanghai Communique clear reads, politics is to be decided by the Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

1) Invasion and annexation, as the PRC is threatening, is not politics but military action. That is everyone's business.

2) Taiwan wants to settle this matter through politics, but the CCP refuses to meet with the duly elected DPP.

In both cases (and in the case I cite above), the CCP is the root of the problem.

JJEToday 08:51 am JST

Important to crucially note this is an 'ambassador' to an entity that lacks UN recognition and is not a valid, independent state.

As covered above, and many times before: 1) the lack of recognition is entirely down to the CCP's threat of invasion, 2) it doesn't matter.

The problem here is 100% China, 0% Taiwan.

Legality of this is somewhat dubious under international law, which means it does not comply with it.

And which "international law" are you talking about here? Please quote the exact law.

To me, there's nothing illegal, or even dubious, about appointing a director of the American Institute in Taiwan.

JJEToday 07:29 am JST

Kishida is being dishonest. Russia had not moved its border further west one inch from 1991 to 2014 when a certain country was hijacked by a western backed coup. Moscow launched a full-scale strategic counteroffensive, defensive in nature, after effectively being lied to for eight years and a list of provocations before that. Surely Kishida knows the NATO-orchestrated Georgian War of 2008 was the first direct clash between a Western proxy and the Russian on the territory of the former Soviet Union; that was the Rubicon crossed and the current conflict is a scaled-up version of that but for the exact same reasons.

Word-for-word Kremlin propaganda, rooted not in facts or history, but in Putin's warped view of reality.

In short, exactly what I expected to find here from you.

TheRegulatorToday 10:32 am JST

Reading the comments above it seems most are from people taken in by the media narrative about Ukraine. Note how there are almost never any articles which attempt to explain what has been happening over the last 30 years or even accurately present the Russian viewpoint. That is a feature of propaganda.

There are plenty of articles on Putin's viewpoint (and for longer than 30 years), and we all know what that viewpoint is: "NATO expansion," "color revolutions," "Ukraine is really part of Russia," etc.

The problem is that Putin's viewpoint is based on a warped view of reality, as stated above. It is pushing that warped view of reality that is propaganda.

Ukraine today could be East Asia tomorrow.

This is exactly right. Luckily, Xi knows that the free world's response (military and economic) to a Taiwan invasion/blockade will be utterly devastating to China: we need to keep it that way so that he never moves. (Also, luckily the PLA is rotten with corruption and completely untested, which further complicates Xi's dreams of conquest.)

However, Xi is a brutal dictator, and brutal dictators sometimes do stupid things (cf. Putin's disastrous Ukraine folly), so we cannot relax our guard.

"The geographical boundary of 'Euro-Atlantic' or 'Indo-Pacific' is no longer relevant in safeguarding global peace and security.

Also exactly right. East Asian countries (China, North Korea) are fueling Russia's war machine right now. Russia (and Iran) may aid their future aggression in East Asia, depending on how well/badly it recovers from Putin's disastrous Ukraine folly.

The pro-authoritarians always attempt to delink these regions/events, both in official discourse and via their internet trolls. But that is because cooperation among free world countries (particularly with the world's premier military force, NATO) is what scares them the most.

The People's Liberation Army marched into Tibet in 1950 and announced its "peaceful liberation".

And the CCP is still stealing territory today, and still spouting totally false claims to "justify" its naked aggression.

The CCP hasn't changed one iota, and never will change unless the free world stops it.

deanzaZZRToday 06:13 pm JST

Funny how the pro-Uncle Sam team is perfectly comfortable with Japanese imperialists hoovering up the Ryukyu Kingdom in 1879 and USA imperialists hoovering up the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893.

Funny how your line of reasoning does not excuse China in any way for this latest shameful incident, but is simply designed to (and fails to) deflect from China's constant belligerence.

But then tu quoque is one of the CCP's favorite fallacies, so I guess we shouldn't be too surprised.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

A monster ship from a monstrous dictatorship. How nice.

China yet again disproving its own "peaceful rise" and "win-win cooperation" myths.

Pukey2Today 08:12 am JST

Next, we'll be hearing how China is over-combatting climate change. China produced more solar panels last year than USA has done in its entire history. Bad bad bad China.

China cares nothing about climate change. Its green tech/EVs are nothing more than a strategic move to dominate these industries, influence geopolitics and increase the power of the CCP.

Making solar panels and EVs isn't "green" when you're powering your industry by building six times more coal plants than the rest of the world combined:

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-six-times-more-new-coal-plants-than-other-countries-report-fin

quercetumToday 08:45 am JST

EU knows that China isn’t subsidizing the production of EV cars.

This comment is the exact opposite of what the EU has formally stated.

I know which of you I believe.

Great idea. Disinformation is a huge problem all over the web (one need only look at some of the posts here on JT for a start) and must be addressed so that the people aren't fooled.

Taiwan should also be included in this initiative, as it is the biggest target of China's disinformation and can provide valuable input on how to combat it.

marc ladenToday 08:11 am JST

Why we need another NATO...

The article says nothing about forming another NATO.

Any buoy illegally set up by China must be immediately removed. No statements about the situation being "regrettable", no waiting for (fallacious) explanations from the totalitarian menace: just do it.

China only understands firm action, and cannot be trusted in any way.

President Vladimir Putin told navy chiefs ... that a major modernisation was under way

Well, the job should be much easier for you, Vlad, now that you have hardly any ships left to modernize.

Looking forward to seeing the sorry remnants of your once-feared Black Sea fleet joining the Moskva, Sergey Kotov, Saratov, Askold, Rostov-na-Donu, Minsk, etc., etc...

Hello Kitty 321Today 10:39 am JST

Pure conjecture. You might as well say all threatened by the U.S.

It's not "conjecture" when Russia is actively invading its neighbor militarily, and China is doing the same via grey zone activities and lawfare. Anyone who doesn't acknowledge the threat likely doesn't know much about authoritarianism or geopolitics, or is perhaps shouting for one of those countries (after all, they both have well-funded influence operations, as I'm sure you're aware).

For North Korea, I don't think anyone can be sure of its aims as it is a total basket case.

Good news. The free world's ties become stronger by the day. This is the kind of cooperation we need to defeat the authoritarian bullies.

China still doesn't understand that threatening countries doesn't get you what you want: it just makes them team up against you. And, under the CCP, it sadly never will understand this.

rocketpigToday 05:22 pm JST

If you just look at the domination of the Chinese in the field of mathematics

On what metric are you basing this Chinese "domination" exactly? If you're talking about academics, the best universities appear to be in the US and Europe.

https://www.topuniversities.com/university-subject-rankings/mathematics

https://edurank.org/math/

AI domination will come as no surprise.

China will not dominate AI as all its models must adhere to Xi Jinping Thought. This simple fact detaches them from the real world and immediately destroys their value.

quercetumToday 02:01 pm JST

Americans prefer to be humanities majors who read novels and use big words to talk about the world

A laughable generalization.

Han's word cannot be trusted: he is a Beijing stooge. I will take these "strong ties" he seeks with a very large grain of salt.

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/taiwan-speaker-beijing-02022024005209.html

quercetumToday 01:34 pm JST

There will not be war in Asia.

There already is: the two Koreas are still technically at war.

And China is doing a very good job of trying to start one, by threatening everyone in sight and stealing their territory.

Typical, brazen lawlessness from the totalitarian dystopia. Economic decoupling, increased defenses, and coordination/alliances among free world countries is the only way to deal with them.

TokyoLivingToday 08:19 am JST

Reunification in process..

As stated many times, there is no such thing as "reunification," as the CCP has never controlled Taiwan. It is a CCP propaganda term.

What you are referring to is "illegal annexation."

And, of course, Taiwan.

FosToday 06:14 pm JST

For your record: China has not been engaged in military activity for the past forty years.

For your record:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_China%E2%80%93India_border_standoff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_China%E2%80%93India_skirmishes

China does not have a history of military aggression beyond the defence of its own borders.

Tibet, India, Korea, Vietnam, South China Sea, East China Sea.

And no, the unlawful 10-dash line does not count as China's "own borders."

our best chance of preventing history repeating itself lies in a pandemic agreement.

It depends totally on who is involved in the outbreak, agreement or not.

If a pandemic begins in a responsible country like Japan, it will share the necessary data speedily, allow full and transparent investigations, and do everything it can to help the international community.

If it's a country like China, as we saw with COVID-19, it will deny, obfuscate, lie, and stymie investigations. Even today, the CCP continues to prevent a full, transparent investigation, meaning that the world does indeed remain "ill-prepared for the next pandemic."

A pandemic agreement will only work if those involved actually live up to their word, and authoritarian countries simply will not.

BertieWoosterToday 07:25 pm JST

Knee jerk reaction by those who have swallowed the propaganda.

Decades of CCP brutality, coupled with its current aggression toward a whole host of countries, is hardly "knee jerk."

But you go to bat for them if you like. After all, Japan is a free country - very much unlike China.

ianToday 09:02 pm JST

Lol talk about being brainwashed and prejudiced.

Yes, those that follow the CCP and amplify its propaganda certainly are.

"We will also not accept the hype of 'xenophobia' and hate speech by individuals," the government-controlled People's Daily said in an editorial on Friday.

Well, stop promoting it as CCP policy then.

Or perhaps they mean it's okay for the Chinese government, but not for "individuals." Probably.

No. Just no.

FIFA is every bit as corrupt as the IOC and, as those above have said, we will see all the same bribery problems we had with the Olympics.

The government should use the money to fund grass roots sports: provide the kids/residents with affordable, local facilities where they can develop their talents and love of sport.

protect regional peace with an aggressive and overwhelming response

And there's your problem, Kim: your own aggression. If you weren't threatening to turn South Korea into a sea of fire, and firing missiles all over the place (including right over Japan), etc., other countries wouldn't gang up on you. But you do, so they do.

Just like with China and Russia, it's the authoritarian countries' own actions that cause a response from the free world.