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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Unrelated to China, but why is the Vietnam War listed as Indecisive or unclear outcome?

[–] loaExMachina 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Immediately thought of Vietnam and Cambodia. OP really doesn't know much history... [Edit: I just checked because I wasn't sure, but China didn't invade Cambodia as far as I can tell. I knew they invaded Vietnam in support of Cambodia, but I didn't know whether some of the Sino-Vietnamese battles also took place in Cambodia, and apparently, no.)]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

List of wars being involved in is not a list of countries being invaded and occupied, nice try though.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

honestly the map is too unserious to merit discussion

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (21 children)

Except that it's not. China's development has been overwhelmingly peaceful, and China has played a positive role around the globe helping many other nations develop and improve their standard of living. On the other hand, the US has been at war throughout all of its miserable existence, and is responsible for carrying out countless crimes against humanity around the globe. It remains the greatest threat to human existence today.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (18 children)

See? You could have said that instead of posting falsified maps

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, apart from other areas of china (if you can call those "invasions and occupations") there's only been one time they've invaded another country and that was Vietnam in 1979.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Yog, where is P̶a̶d̶m̶e̶ Tibet?

Is it safe? Is it alright?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Tibet was liberated in 1951 thank goodness

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Stark comparison but China regularly has skirmishes with India on India's side of the border.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

There was also the time they invaded Vietnam.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

and with the USSR

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

During the first and second Afghan civil-war there were also border skirmishes

[–] sbv 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Liberating the people of Tibet from a feudal theocracy, from poverty and illiteracy. The horror they must be suffering.

I don’t think many Tibetans would welcome a CIA-backed Dalai “suck my tongue” Lama coup government.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Liberating Germany from Nazi rule, the horror!

If you count the Allied victory as the invasion & occupation of Germany, you must count the liberation of Tibet as an invasion and occupation.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

@yogthos
well... if the map also shows where the US has acted clandestinely for its own imperialist purposes, the map gets a little redder.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Ah. Xinjiang and Tibet should defintely be painted in red. Also Vietnam without a doubt. Korea is a matter of definition.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Not invading other countries is a choice, not a skill.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Big time, despite all the colonization the burger empire still can't keep up with China. Hence all the crying about over production.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (23 children)

@yogthos Your map is wrong. This comment from the linked thread probably sums it up best...

"loaExMachina
@sh.itjust.works

Image says “Has invaded since PRC was founded”, not “is occupying right now”, don’t try to change the terms of the debate when contradicted. You still could’ve made a point that China invaded much fewer countries than the US, but at least try to have an accurate map or the accurate words."

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