As the first press conference of its new foreign minister #QinGang shows, #China has taken sides.
It has decided not to side with #internationallaw, #stability or #peace.
It has decided to side with military #expansionism and an open attack on the peace order we have seen post cold war.
It has decided to side with #Russia.
The consequences of this decision will rattle the world. This is bad news of the top shelf. And the prick holds a little red book. #fucktheCCP
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/07/china-foreign-minister-warns-of-potential-for-conflict-with-us-and-hails-russia-ties

re: nations being unsalvagable

@toomas_ilves @glynmoody
@whvholst

Walter, but you can't impose #Vergangenheitsbewältigung (the "struggle of overcoming the past" in post-Nazi Germany; kind of #lustration) upon mentally infertile population from outside by simply asking "pretty please?".

And despite #ruscist paranoia / propaganda, *no-one* is willing to "go in and make them".

For centuries the crime (of colonialist #expansionism) paid off royally; the thug, military brass and ruler classes profited, but even the serf masses felt they weren't the *worst-off" people in the empire — the colonized "minorities" were.

The will to embrace civilization must come from inside, but for that to even be possible, #muscovia must return its loot: the colonies to the native colonial subjects and other violently stolen territories. Otherwise it'll be once again "fuck this eternal cesspool, let's go and steal from neighbours who have plumbing and indoor toilets and everything...!"

OTOH #German #ThirdReich was shocking exactly because it arose and took hold within a population with deep roots to #Hochkultur. And even there the lustration wasn't a complete success: there is a 'thriving' neonazi 'community' and German industrialists couldn't be more eager to collaborate with (genocidal and expansionist) despots... foreign ones will do if none are available domestically...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergangenheitsbew%C3%A4ltigung

#russia #ruscism #nazism #imperialism #colonialism

@jcast
Yes Ukraine is divided.

Its nice to know that from 2015-2016 the US have been funding neo-Nazis in the #Ukraine.

There was supposedly an agreement never put into writing, in the early nineties that Ukraine would not be in NATO??

Imagine how the US would act if Russia or China put weapons/troops in Mexico.

Maybe US invites war? No faith in #USD/#corpoShit, so rally the troops?

The US has a devastating history of #expansionism. Which banks invested in 1938?

@kravietz @obsolete29 @edsu

@smpl
We also call for ecological repair. Before concerning yourself with savers (and arguably environment savers too, by extension) please cast your attention to #propertyDevelopers and #landholders who wish to profit from land #rezoning for #urbanOverdevelopment, #monoculture and actual #mining.

Bitcoin could be the furthest concern from your mind. It fact it is a remedy to debt fueled #expansionism.

#warOnSavers #rentseeking #bigCapital

From stiffening international #investors first in the #tech sector and now in #realestate (Evergrande, anyone?) to crackdowns on gaming and the toxic rhetorics aimed at rivals, #China presents itself in a worrying state. It all smells an awful lot like #siegementality.

More importantly, pundits have been saying that #Beijing is playing the long game and that it has a strict plan all the time. With #AUKUS, time has started to run against China's #expansionism in the #FarEast. What's next?

As the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership #RCEP goes to show, #freetrade with Chinese characteristics may well include #expansionism against clear #UNCLOS rulings and yes: petty #tradewars if a country does not act as #China wants.
#Australia|n coal, wine and lobster, anyone?

Do not sign contracts with #China.
Do not become part of #Beijing's larger plan.
Steer clear of its #beltandroad initiative that often comes with a built-in #debttrap.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/23/manila-hits-chinas-blatant-disregard-of-south-china-sea-pledge

No: #China is not "reforming" the electoral rules for #HongKong. It's factually eliminating #civicrights and #democracy with its drivel about #patriots.

For the #CCP, patriotism is swallowing all of its crap without any complaint. It's servile #submission.

No wonder #Taiwan won't buy into the #onestatetwosystems nonsense when #Beijing is ignoring the second part of the promise while pushing through with the first.

Down with the #CCP!
Down with China's brazen #expansionism and #militarism!

The newly formed #Xinsha district of the PR #China is deep in the EEZ of #Vietnam, the #Nansha district is deep in the #EEZ of the Philippines.
#China has put itself in contempt of an international court with these actions. #Beijing's rulers should be treated as what they are: A territorially expansive and highly oppressive regime in contempt of international rule.

Isolate #China and stop this #expansionism as long as diplomacy can still do so. The clock is ticking. #Spratly #Paracel