China Sees U.S. as a "Giant With a Limp"

Jack Grealish said:
Even if China accepted all the treaties that would split its sovereignty and territorial integrity, like it did at the end of the Qing dynasty, that still wouldn't actually solve anything. It would just be feeding Japanese militarism once again. And that Japanese militarism is the same one that attacked Pearl Harbor during World War II. What Americans can't seem to understand right now is that U.S. interference in China's affairs, and all those moves aimed at weakening China, won't do the United States any good. A whole, unified China would be the most reliable ally the U.S. could have in East Asia. Japan cannot be trusted. Someday, Americans will come to realize this. Hopefully, it won't be after the U.S. has paid another heavy price.
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I admittedly don't understand the fear of Japan.
 
martin said:
Well, thanks. You made a valiant effort anyway.
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Notice how Marty can’t refute a single thing I said so he just brushes it off as a 'valiant effort.' Lol. The poor bastard is a prisoner to the morons he reads. I wonder if Marty can find and share a single piece of work from the writer that has stood the test of time and scrutiny? I don't really wonder, he can't.
 
Guno צְבִי said:
Look no further then the 30's and 40's
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They're the only people on the planet who've been nuked, but they've done pretty well post-occupation without empire-building or colonial pursuits. Also, we're the ones who nuked them, not China.

You could very well be right about them, but I'm just not seeing it. I see the bright, colorful lights of Tokyo and polite, industrious people.
 

China energy imports drop amid US-Israeli war on Iran​


China’s crude oil imports fell by 20 percent in April to 38.5 million metric tonnes compared with a year earlier, according to customs data released.

China imports about half of its crude oil from Iran, where the US blockade of the strait has slashed the number of tankers carrying oil and refined products to the world.

Saturday’s data from China does not distinguish between oil arriving by sea and oil coming in via pipeline. Data from ship-tracking firm Kpler, however, put seaborne crude imports at 8.03 million barrels per day, the lowest since July 2022.

Natural gas imports also fell by 13 percent to 8.42 million tonnes, although the data does not separate seaborne liquefied natural gas (LNG) from gas piped overland. China imports significant quantities of LNG from Iran.

China’s crude oil imports for the first four months of the year are still tracking 1.3 percent above last year’s level at 185.3 million tonnes.
 
CasualLurker said:
They're the only people on the planet who've been nuked, but they've done pretty well post-occupation without empire-building or colonial pursuits. Also, we're the ones who nuked them, not China.

You could very well be right about them, but I'm just not seeing it. I see the bright, colorful lights of Tokyo and polite, industrious people.
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Some deep cultural issues just can't be understood with that simple, straightforward, American-style way of thinking.
 
martin said:
A grinding war in Iran has so severely drained American firepower that Chinese analysts are openly questioning Washington’s ability to defend Taiwan. That shifting calculus threatens to undercut President Trump’s leverage in his high-stakes summit next week with China’s top leader, Xi Jinping.

Since the war began in late February, the United States has burned through around half of its long-range stealth cruise missiles and fired off roughly 10 times the number of Tomahawk cruise missiles it currently buys each year, according to internal Defense Department estimates and congressional officials.

To some Chinese military and geopolitical analysts, the war has done more than deplete U.S. munitions stockpiles, it has also shattered America’s aura of dominance. They argue that it has exposed a major flaw in U.S. war strategy: its inability to make weapons quickly enough to replenish its arsenal in a sustained, intense conflict.

This depletion “has significantly diminished the U.S. military’s ability to project its combat power, laying bare the shortcomings of its global military hegemony,” said Yue Gang, a retired colonel of the People’s Liberation Army, in an interview.

Such arguments help fuel a narrative among hawkish Chinese commentators, and potentially in the government, that American forces could no longer effectively defend Taiwan should the United States and China ever go to war over the self-governed island. The logic of Chinese nationalists is that since the United States has been unable to achieve a quick victory against Iran, a regional military power, then it would most likely have even less success against China, which the analysts see as a peer competitor.

From this perspective, the U.S. impasse with Iran weakens Mr. Trump’s position going into talks with Mr. Xi next week.

“Trump originally intended to visit China with the air of a swift victor, leveraging his position to increase pressure on China,” Mr. Yue said. “Now, however, with the conflict deadlocked and the military campaign stalled, he finds himself in a difficult position.”

Mr. Trump, he added, “will be unable to project the same arrogance.”


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China Sees a ‘Giant With a Limp’ as U.S. Drains Weapons on Iran War

America’s ability to deter China in a war over Taiwan is weakened, Chinese analysts say, giving Beijing leverage in an upcoming summit with President Trump.
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Every single nation on the planet, save for Japan finds the US lead by MAGA and Trump as the laughing stock of all time. Nobody takes Trump serious, they just find him a fuckin mental case.
 
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