https://www.economist.com/china/2022/05/05/china-wants-to-increase-its-military-presence-abroad

https://archive.is/1Dvwt

  • Rom [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    So are they saying that having overseas military bases is a bad thing now, or?

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    • BrezhnevsEyebrows [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      They're trying their damn hardest to conjure up some sort of whataboutism to throw at people who point this out

        • robinn_IV
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          10 months ago

          Whereas China forced the countries to let them possibly consider propositioning them

      • Rom [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        America, Britain and a handful of other military powers have a global network of bases that have existed for decades and are mostly legacies of empire, the second world war and the cold war.

        "legacies of empire" lmao. "We're not building new bases, just continuing to occupy 800 existing ones, so that totes makes our imperialism okay guys!"