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Oh, is the wolf warrior now wondering why it doesn't have any friends? Who'd have thought that being a belligerent bully would have consequences?
Probably because they began the genocidal sinicization of Tibet in 1950, yet the world largely ignored it while continuing to support the Chinese economy through manufacturing.
Only with the Uyghur genocide of the last decade have nations begun to care enough to criticize, likely due to their production of goods through forced labor.
Maybe the world would’ve cared sooner if they forced the Tibetan monks to make cheap plastic junk for Amazon and Walmart.
It is but it’s only accepting friendships with Chinese characteristics.
Still expecting others to be subservient and obsequiously pay tribute to the middle kingdom after all these years. You'd think they'd have permanently snapped out of it after they got clapped by a few metal ships ~180 years ago but they seem to have forgotten about that.
The funny thing is that the Belt and Road initiative as a way of buying friends has utterly failed. For example, China built a billion-dollar bridge in the Maldives connecting Malé with its airport on another island but public opinion of China in the Maldives is still low. That's despite the fact that the entrance to the bridge has "China-Maldives Friendship Bridge" written in large letters on an arch over the carriageway.
If I were in Iran's position I wouldn't be too happy about a road into central Asia for tanks to race down and a rail line to resupply them.
The problem is, as bad as public opinion is amongst the public, the elected officials (this round) are the ones who sign the agreements for lockins the next 15-20 years. Their hands are greasy as fuck, I hear.
"I would do anything for clout..."
"But I won't do that!"
Let's trade goods but don't mention the Uyghurs. It makes us look bad. mmkay?
What's a little genocide between friends.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
China’s chief diplomat told Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly Friday that Beijing wants to “inject momentum into the restoration of normal relations,” but said the Asian power will brook no criticism of human-rights abuses or its menacing threats to the island democracy of Taiwan.
In the Chinese readout of the meeting, Mr. Wang said the two countries have extensive common interests and they must work to improve bilateral relations and “move forward along a healthy and stable track.”
Last year, Ms. Joly expelled Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei after The Globe reported Beijing had targeted Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong and his relatives in Hong Kong in an attempt to gain leverage over the MP.
The Chinese Communist Party, which seized power in China in 1949, has never ruled Taiwan, where nationalist forces retreated after losing a civil war to Mao Zedong more than 70 years ago.
Canada has not recognized Taiwan as a sovereign state since 1970, when then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau switched diplomatic relations to Communist-led China, but maintains strong informal ties.
She said Canadians should take note that Ms. Joly’s Beijing stop was sandwiched between substantial visits to South Korea and Japan, two of the most important allies for Ottawa’s Indo-Pacific strategy.
The original article contains 1,005 words, the summary contains 204 words. Saved 80%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Why do all stories have random bolded sections now?
It should be up to the readers to pick out important parts of an article.
…. Or you know, the authors choice to bold what they find important, y’know because they’re the ones writing the story and you can and should be looking at multiple sources for a bigger picture
The authors aren't bolding these sections, though.
Author of the article, author of the post, etc
You don’t put restrictions on citizens, you highlight the dangers and let them decide for themselves. The authors choice to put a bolded section here is and should always be interpreted as their own and people should read the article themselves.
Everything that I said before still stands in this case
Bolding sections may or may not be carryover from the original article and can be confusing. People should read the article and reach their own conclusions of what's important without influence, which you keep agreeing with me about. Altering an article is editorializing it, and last I checked this is a news community that should be posting unaltered articles.
My first post was a simple question and statement. I'm not sure what crawled up your ass this morning but there was nothing said that gave license for you to be a dick in your responses. Good day.
Nothing crawled up my ass, I’m being pretty civil here. Not sure how you’re reading it in your own head cannon, but I promise it was just conversational. Sorry if any of what I said led you to think otherwise.
The original source is still posted, bolding sections is probably the absolute least amount of “editorial” as you can get.
Just pointing out that the use of bold font in summarizing an article is pretty harmless. That’s all.