Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "South China Morning Post" channel.

  1.  @harchiehirondo8156  Sure, we can ask them. And almost all of them are pro-US or close US allies, barring the Iraqis.
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  2. What can the US do in the Israeli-Palestinian issue that it hasn't done already? That's like Afghanistan, a mess that just can't be fixed outright.
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  3.  @joeyharper4976  Isn't the US attacking Philippine ships and stealing their territory.
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  4. @John Smith Either way, they won't care. Mostly because the UK doesn't claim all of the Channel as theirs like a child, unlike China.
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  5.  @CP-28  China literally did it 3 weeks ago now, near Alaska. Nobody cared, because the US isn't a little crybaby like China is.
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  6.  @鱼人-v8y  Oh? And when did the US use trade wars, tariffs, and the US dollar as a tool against Japan? And if you unironically say "the Plaza Accord", you really will prove yourself to be pretty ignorant.
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  7.  @鱼人-v8y  Uh, can you at least point to a website and provide the title for a source? I know Youtube has a habit of deleting direct links. That's what I do to circumvent when I need to source. But yes, if China rises and replaces the US as the pre-eminent economic powerhouse, its possible the USD can be replaced; though it's not quite that simple. The British Pound wasn't replaced by the USD until after the Pound was crippled by the massive wartime effort of the UK in WW2, and the US had long surpassed the British Empire economically about 4 decades prior to that. Economic power is definitely a factor, but inertia and trust is paramount, and the British Pound lost a lot of trust with the collapse of the British Empire. It will take not only China's unabated rise, but also the US' genuine fall to make the USD fall in favor of the Chinese Yuan, but even then the Euro is far more favorable a currency to fall back on in terms of trust than the Yuan currently.
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  8. @Heloise O'Byrne If you actually bother to study any macroeconomics you'd know that it's done for a purpose. Don't be a sheep.
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  9. They are speaking for themselves; they don't wanna be a CCP lapdog and prefer to be free. You don't get to deny their sovereignty.
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  10.  @cocaineminor4420  It isn't when you use your brain and realize that the US tends to get involved afterwards, not before. Meanwhile China has expanded multiple times despite signing multiple treaties promising to recognize the borders and lands of others, and is openly supporting the Junta in Myanmar.
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  11.  Leo.s  The whole world also relies on the US, and people can hate on the US if they want. That's not really a reason to NOT hate someone.
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  12.  @dtango8345  Rejecting a ceasefire among the 5 members of the Security Council is not really lonely. Meanwhile, China is pretty much alone among 195 countries in the world today. The comparison is just weird lol
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  13.  @glennsriyousefbaun-cueto9287  You already have colonial mentality for China; China attacks and bullies and you still deflect to the US for your masters in Beijing.
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  14. I doubt that's all of Africa, and if we're talking about shoddy poor countries; then why are you comparing the second biggest economy in the world to that?
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  15.  @theuncomfortabletruth8348  Libya never got war games. Or Syria. Or Yemen. Or Afghanistan. So your point makes no sense.
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  16. ​ @theuncomfortabletruth8348  Well, duh. First of all, the US did not even attack Syria, Yemen, or Libya -it either joined a faction in an already present war or just was not involved at all. And Afghanistan was a defensive war. Second of all, the US is protecting its allies, not threatening an invasion. If anything, China is the one drumming up tension here, using it to justify the CCP's support by drawing on xenophobia against anything non-Chinese. The US does not need China to maintain its military budget; imperialist totalitarian nations like China already does that for it.
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  17.  @sonofben3322  What, do you think trying to convince the world that Tibet and most of the SCS are Chinese de jure territory isn't imperialism?
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  18.  @l5966  So CCP gets to oppress another people (Taiwan) because it's in their national interests? Would you permit a US nuclear launch against China to protect US allies because it's in their national interest? You people are disgusting hypocrites.
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  19.  @finkt5920  Considering most countries easily blackmail the US for more support or money, including weak Central American states, I'd say that yes most countries don't fear the US. After the Cold War US conflicts have dropped dramatically and thus trust has increased. Though certain powers who want more influence are trying to deflect anything wrong with the world to the US. Like you for example.
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  20. @The Professional US territories wanna be a part of the US, and we have freedom of media to confirm it. China hides everything and lies; with no one able to verify. So China concentration camps and oppression beliefs are based on China's constant need to hide the truth.
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  21.  @ralffe3465  Why are we giving them the benefit of the doubt when Taliban policy before and now has been consistent about women's rights? That is to say; they get none. Like, this is not something they deny.
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  22.  Bootloader  Abu Gharib wasn't a creation of America, boot licker. It occurred despite US government clearly not wishing it and all were arrested and prosecuted.
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  23.  @ameyapotdar461  Yep, and the Americans, like mature adults, didn't care. Too bad China is so utterly insecure that it needs to do this to feel better about itself.
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  24.  @ameyapotdar461  There are no "fake NGOs" nor are they making "fake news" against China. All the NGOs that talk about China negatively existed for many years, and most "fake news" is just Chinese nationalists and their defenders screeching that anything they don't like is fake news. Much like Trumpists did, funny enough. It wasn't the US that alerted the world to China's issues with Xinjiang, or Tibet, or hiding Covid-19. Other trusted international organizations brought it up first, but China acts as if the US brought it out of thin air in order to obfuscate the fact that the US came late to the party. Much of the world is also suspicious of the US, so why you think the US has this kind of magical pull with the rest of the world is just weird. What, can nobody think for themselves and it's all just a giant conspiracy against China? You weird CCP defenders need to get a grip; the US is rarely even the first one to criticize China, and the US had mostly allowed China to build its military islands on the SCS without complaint until the Philippines went to the US about it. Don't like the US grilling China? Then stop harrassing US allies. "America is panicking" Where, exactly? And why? The world has been turning on China for years now, the new allies China hoped to make are turning to the US instead, and now China has Russia, which is also a global paraiah instead of most of East Asia, as intended. If anything, the US is doing great right now if we're talking about this hole China is digging itself into.
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  25.  @zsarimaxim692  Taiwan declared it too, that doesn't mean we should accept Taiwan's control over the islands either. Are you a child? Do you assume something is yours because you claim it and nobody bothered to pay attention to you?
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  26.  @zsarimaxim692  In this context? No, because waterways which are critical to trade tend to become international waters so that people can't militarize them as a means to control and blackmail other countries. It's kinda a thing.
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  27.  @zsarimaxim692  Officially they can, but only because the US keeps doing it to spit on China's claim of the whole 9-dash line. If they didn't, then China may well start acting like that's its EEZ and prevent any ship from crossing it without permission. Which is exactly the issue; the militarized reefs, the enforced claims, all spits in the idea of the SCS being international waters and 100% would severely disrupt trade to the countries there. It doesn't matter how much the share of the trade is to and from China, what matters is that its also the majority from other countries, and China control over it spits on their sovereignty. Look how close it is to THEIR literal land. How do you expect these nations to just roll with it with no pushback? How would YOU feel if another country just claims the EEZ right up to a few miles of your literal land and 100's of miles away from theirs?
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  28.  @zsarimaxim692  I already answered your question. No, it doesn't matter; nothing in international law says that is the case, and international law guarantees open trade between nations with their own EEZ, with compromises allowing for variations; NOT self-declarations utilizing influence, power, and intimidation. China has an existential interest in keeping its OWN trade routes open, but no single nation has the right to declare an EEZ which violates so many other national claims by using military occupation as an excuse. The US Navy has not once attempted to blockade these trade routes, and has indeed been called upon by multiple nations in the region as a counterbalance to China's attempts at control of the region. And note that such military exercises are in RESPONSE to China building these militarized islands in an attempt to control trade in this part of the world. Yes, you're referring to NATURAL islands which have people there that WANT to be British. China CREATED artificial and militarized islands; one is fine, the other is an obvious attempt at controlling territory. It'd be like the US creating a new island in the region and claiming EEZ based off of that. That's not how this works. Greece and Turkey's issues with EEZ is literally my point btw; these two countries have big issues in deciding the EEZ, but neither have used the poor excuse of building military bases on reefs to reinforce their claim by force.
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  29.  @octavia7408  It's pathetic how often ASEANers try to frame everything as if conflicts only emerge due to Western interference. Sorry, but you don't get to dismiss your own imperialism when its convenient. Especially hilarious when ASEAN nations alternatively hate and then seek Western support.
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  30.  @TheIdiosyncraticMe-t3u  So is Russia's and China's history, but nobody blames them. This is more your bigotry aided by Kremlin propaganda.
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  31.  @charleskow5977  US' friends are the wealthiest on the planet, genius
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  32.  @vangpham2514  Let's be honest, if Hollywood was making a movie in Syria with the backdrop of a ruined city, then people would suddenly remember how scummy this seems.
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  33. Did you even watch the video? Japan acknowledged that, genius.
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  34. This news channel is in China, what, are they supposed to just ignore it?
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  35.  @Robin-hv5tv  China is supporting a country that threatens to start a nuclear war daily. You have no room to even speak.
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  36. @Angelez Romero The other dude was just saying how India invented stuff, not Europeans though
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  37.  @sosoable  US military in Japan aren't bothering anyone, and is Japan's business. Japan literally just sits there, and Russia and China are now bullying it. How is this American aggression?
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  38. The US literally doesn't care since Russia and China are allowed to do this. Only one side is crying like children about stuff like this.
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  39.  @calvinblue894  China can apparently steal the territories and lands of other nations with impunity, then claim that they're not being a threat? Much hypocrisy, beyond the US can even fathom.
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  40. ​ @stickymoney  >Russia literally supporting both sides and stealing Sudanese gold You: US at fault, please Daddy Russia colonize us more
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  41.  @imrankhankingofdonkeysalla848  Which is incorrect, because most terrorists have Russian or Chinese weapons, not US weapons. When was the last time you saw terrorists with M16's?
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  42.  @Majeed.  >US Leave! US prepares to leave, leading to more terrorist attacks. >US responsible! yeah, about what I expected.
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  43.  @johnded3874  Are you people insane??? You prefer literal slavery with some of the worst living standards of the planet to one of the richest countries of the planet because its liberal??? Humanity is doomed.
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  44.  @GeneralissimoJiang  Bootlicking is in vogue, I guess.
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  45.  @NinjapowerMS  Pathetic that people like you would screech if that logic was ever applied to you. You either defend sovereignty or you don't; North Korea has far less right to sovereignty to Ukraine and yet that's not the logic you used. Nation-states are the ones that fight conflicts or make international statements; an individual means nothing. And the West is helping Ukraine -so that's by itself having standards. On the individual level the problem are imperialists like you who are clear hypocrites.
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  46.  @mira-uf1ie  You Sino nationalists are seriously embarrassing. It's no wonder your neighbors are becoming so wary of you. You can justify literally anything these days...
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  47.  @sleepyhead6468  Other "non-Western" people are in agreement to this. So maybe the Chinese should stop crying about the imaginary Western conspiracy lol
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  48. They literally do, genius. Look it up.
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  49. ​ @exu7325  What a weak excuse lol
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  50. As long as its outside the EEZ, the US won't complain. Mostly because unlike China, the US isn't claiming more territory as its EEZ.
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