• baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    tfw "rules-based international order" means we're allowed to break those rules whenever we want but our enemies aren't allowed to do the same

    • anachronist@midwest.social
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      4 months ago

      China never would have allowed these transfers to begin with. And if they did happen they would have been reversed with no recourse to the foreign investor. China has actually screwed foreign investors in a million different ways without any real response from the west.

      • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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        4 months ago

        Yes, they broke the rules the West invented and the West complains about. Now the West is breaking the rules, undermining their entire position that all nations must follow the rules or be punished.