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[–] 64 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That is a startlingly weak position for China to be in.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not really startling. No big player other than Russia has ever been on China's side RE Taiwan.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I feel like Russian support is pretty much a rounding error when it comes to Chinese power.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I suspect the concern is that no one, including China itself knows how strong they would be in a military conflict, since they haven't been in an at scale conflict in living memory, using economic power instead to great effect.

    If they are really wanting to violently assert their view on Taiwan, they want global attention divided.

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