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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Why would they do that when they're strategy of peaceful economic integration has been working so well?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Same reason Russia did it. The allmighty leader gets older and wants to see it happen before he dies as some stupid form of legacy.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Except China has a vibrant democracy with a 95 percent approval rating, Xi isn't that old, and Russia is a nakedly corrupt bourgeois "democracy", sure

Or literally any historical analysis as opposed to marvel movie understandings of politics

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