kiddash3r

5y

my grandma still has a portrait of Tito in her living room

americana

5y

Goated

krishna bound

5y

There's definitely a lot of rabidly pro-China people but I think most of the reason people gang up against anti-China takes is because the default of anti-China takes is very unnuanced online (and irl tbf) and usually is dependent on either western propaganda or arbitrary western preferences. It's rare that most people present nuanced views of China in online discussions and people are mainly defensive because most of the "offense" tends to just be wrong which (understandably) sets off a lot of people's alarms. Especially if you aren't a super well known politics sxn poster, people probably dont' know your views and assume you're coming from that type of angle unless you make your views on it clear from the get-go contextually

ARCADE GOON

5y

It is a waste of life-time to argue with a schizophrenic like you so you will only get image macros from now on

americana

5y

Goated

krishna bound

5y

BRI is definitely a way of extending chinese influence in terms of soft power by counteracting american influence. I think in terms of it competing against american influence it's admirable and far preferable, and I don't think it's "imperialism" or "debt trap" which is the go to often uneducated but typical insult against it usually, but I do think that it's clearly a strategic move to build influence because china does not have the "soft power" cultural influence like the US does. Like it's basically just a form of diplomacy more than it is a form of ideological nation building. It's more or less a net good in general, but I don't like the people online who think BRI is some kind of weird secret third worldist ideological strategy and it's being done out of the good of China's heart or something.
Most of the current chinese administration is far past even that of Dengism and most of them advocate basically just mimicking a chinese version of the American Dream and calling for basically finishing the "american experiment" by picking up where america failed in both global influences (i.e. building an "ethical" version of the IMF or something) and in domestic goals. I was talking about this earlier in the thread (probably like 50-70+ pages ago by now) and had direct quotes from chinese officials on this stuff in literature published by them so it's not really some type of anti-china conspiracy.

Synopsis

5y

Thread booming lol what's going on

Synopsis

5y

Thread booming lol what's going on

kiddash3r

5y

my grandma still has a portrait of Tito in her living room

Fargo

5y

The execution of those b******s happened in 1988. How you Iranian and don’t know easily obtainable information about your country.

Fargo

5y

Libyan and Yugoslav friendship forever 🤝

americana

5y

Afghanistan man

ARCADE GOON

5y

CITGO was owned by the Venezuelan state when this song was made