Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Blinken discusses Russia, Taiwan and trade with Chinese counterpart Wang | DW News" video.

  1. Autocrats like the CPC get more aggressive when they’re comfortable. Deterrence is more productive than appeasement, because then it compels the autocrat to direct its threats elsewhere and convince its neighbors that they can afford to stand down.
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  2. …or a well trodden track towards a violent collapse when the link between civil society and their autocratic ruler diverges to the point that it snaps.
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  3. Sounds like Washington is trying to feel if Beijing is ready to alter course and meet in the middle, because otherwise the US will continue distancing its capital and knowledge from the PRC.
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  4. China also had its entire state violently overthrown dozens of times from within when it stopped convincing its people that their country was worth dying for.
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  5. ⁠Those US bases are there because the host nations want them there. Case in point: the Philippines ejected the Americans at the end of the Cold War, and they’ve been losing their seas to China ever since.
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  6. Only in trying to get the Americans to yield, which they’re unable to force unilaterally. This is more like the Beijing needing fresh sound bites for its narrative that the ruling CPC remains “great, glorious, and correct” ☭🔊
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