• WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    China doesn’t want to hand a pretext to a dangerously trigger-happy power - all the more when patience alone delivers what it wants.

    This actually neatly sums up pretty much all of Chinese history.

    Unfortunate that so many Americans, and even politicians, still haven’t grasped that.

    • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      24 hours ago

      Woah, there, buddy. All of Chinese history is a long-ass time. For a pretty big chunk of that (noncontiguously) they were the trigger-happy power.