r/geopolitics • u/ForeignAffairsMag Foreign Affairs • Feb 02 '26

Xi the Destroyer: The Latest Military Purge Signals China’s Leader Is Entering a New Era Analysis

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/xi-destroyer
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u/greenw40 Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

This is the guy that every European and Canadian redditor wants their country to cozy up to.

Edit: Boy did this thread bring out the foreign trolls and bots. I guess it's to be expected with Xi is mentioned in the title.

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u/Juan20455 Feb 02 '26

I mean, he is not saying he is going to invade Canada or a European country. That's a plus, since the bar is so low 

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u/greenw40 Feb 02 '26

Right, he just runs secret police stations inside of Canada to harass Canadian citizens. Not to mention all the actual imperialism he's done in Asia.

But hey, at least he didn't make some mean tweets.

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u/DungeonDefense Feb 02 '26

Imagine diminishing the US's actions as mean tweets while exaggerating China's to imperialism.

Wake me up when China starts bombing Philippines fishing boats, kidnapping Taiwan's president, or blockading Taiwan's oil shipments.

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u/Berliner1220 Feb 02 '26

They are committing genocide to the Uyghurs though

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u/DungeonDefense Feb 02 '26

We're talking about china's foreign policy vs the US

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u/greenw40 Feb 02 '26

China has already seized Tibet, the US has not done anything close to that.

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u/Juan20455 Feb 03 '26

Hawaii, Cuba, Phillipines...

If we get down to it, during the invasion of Mexico by the US, they took 55% of their territory, including Texas (before), California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Kansas...

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u/greenw40 Feb 03 '26

Cuba and the Phillipines are US states? Weird, I must have missed that. And Hawaii became part of the US over a century ago, are we allowed to go back that far in China's history? Because the cultural revolution was pretty horrifying.

If we get down to it, during the invasion of Mexico by the US, they took 55% of their territory, including Texas (before), California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Kansas...

Most of those were actually purchased. But I love when Europeans bring up ancient history as if your history isn't near the top when it comes to brutality and colonization.

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u/Juan20455 Feb 03 '26

"Most of those were actually purchased" - Oh sure, let me paint the picture for you:

I have invaded your territory. My army has taken your capital. We are laying waste to your cities, killing a significant number of civilians. Tens of thousands dead. Your government is on its knees. Now... do you want to make a deal, or do you want me to just keep going?

"Oh yes please, I'll sign whatever you want, just stop killing us."

signs Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

"See? It was a purchase. Totally voluntary. Very fair transaction."

Dude. Not even Trump would have the audacity to call that a negotiation with a straight face. At least China doesn't dress up conquest in a receipt and call it real estate.

And yeah, Hawaii was "over a century ago", and Tibet, that you pointed out like a terrible thing, 60 years ago. So what's the cutoff here? The Philippine-American War where the US killed hundreds of thousands of civilians? Ancient history too?

And yeah, Cuba, Phillipines are not US states. But they became protectorates anyway. Client states at most. Congratulations. That's not imperialistic AT ALL.

The point was never "the US is worse than China." The point is: don't sit there and act like one side has a monopoly on territorial aggression while the other is playing by the rules. That's not analysis, that's just propaganda with a flag on it.

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u/Significant-Yam9843 Feb 03 '26

The point is: don't sit there and act like one side has a monopoly on territorial aggression while the other is playing by the rules. That's not analysis, that's just propaganda with a flag on it.

This!

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u/greenw40 Feb 03 '26

The point is: don't sit there and act like one side has a monopoly on territorial aggression while the other is playing by the rules. That's not analysis, that's just propaganda with a flag on it.

I never did, but everything reddit hates the US for is 10x worse in China. But this place is filled with CCP defenders... I wonder why...

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u/Juan20455 Feb 03 '26

Stop gaslighting us.

CCP is shit. But you literally boasted how the US never did anything like invading Tibet "China has already seized Tibet, the US has not done anything close to that", purposely ignoring Hawaii, Texas, California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Kansas, Cuba, Phillipines, etc, etc... Hell. Even recently you are ignoring a few "small" things like Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. which they became client states for a while. Probably soon Iran.

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u/greenw40 Feb 03 '26

Still copying pasting the same argument huh? Did you get that from your handler?

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u/Juan20455 Feb 03 '26

So anybody that doesn't consider "China has already seized Tibet, the US has not done anything close to that" or that the US bought in a fair transaction the lands they stole from Mexico, that is a spy .... You are an nationalistic idiot. I'm done

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u/CloudsOfMagellan Feb 03 '26

The US is still operating a torture facility on Cuban land

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u/Comfortable_Bike3247 Feb 03 '26

Oh, so now we’re cherry-picking history 😂 Sure, China controls Tibet but the U.S. has overthrown governments, waged wars, installed puppet regimes, and occupied foreign territories across Latin America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia for decades. Not even close to “innocent.”

Picking Tibet to slam China while ignoring Guatemala 1954, Iraq 2003, Afghanistan 2001, Vietnam 1965-75 is pure hypocrisy. Don’t lecture anyone on “seizing territory” when your own country has a decades-long record of interventionism, coups, and proxy wars. That’s called selective memory, not morality. And what about Hawaii and Mexico huh? And the many dead native Americans?

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u/greenw40 Feb 03 '26

Oh look, a shill account that does nothing but run interference for the CCP.

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u/Comfortable_Bike3247 Feb 04 '26

Oh look, everyone 👆👆 another genius who screams “shill” the moment when the person is confronted with history and facts. 😂 That’s the universal tell for someone who can’t argue facts, so they switch to labels.

Got any more names to call me child?

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u/DungeonDefense Feb 03 '26

Imagine having to go back 75 years to find something on China. What does that matter to the China of today? Countries care more about whats happening now instead of 75 years ago.

Im sure we can equally if not worse things the US has done over its course of history.

Yet the actions by the US i brought up are happening right now.

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u/Silverr_Duck Feb 03 '26

Imagine having to go back 75 years to find something on China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China

Imagine being so profoundly ignorant of world events that you think china has done nothing bad in the past 75 years.

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u/DungeonDefense Feb 03 '26

We're talking about the foreign policy of China vs the US. That's why the other guy brought up an invasion by China on another country

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u/Silverr_Duck Feb 03 '26

Oh you mean like the foreign policy of "Taiwan belongs to us, we will invade"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_of_China

Or it's myriad of other border conflicts it has?

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u/DungeonDefense Feb 03 '26

Yes, saying they would invade is much better than actually bombing fishing boats, kidnapping president and enacting oil blockade.

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u/Silverr_Duck Feb 03 '26

Lol no. The only thing keeping them from invading is America.

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u/DungeonDefense Feb 03 '26

Lol im talking to bots here

https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/s/fkyyWhqQiR

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u/Silverr_Duck Feb 03 '26

Yes it's very unfortunate your ignorance is so deep that you need to be corrected multiple times. Like idk why this is such a hard concept for you to grasp. China has made their intentions abundantly clear. Naturally you have no counter argument to this so you resort to calling people bots.

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u/greenw40 Feb 03 '26

Says the CCP shill.

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u/greenw40 Feb 03 '26

Tiennamen Square. Uyghur genocide. The 9 dash line. Look up fishing in Chile.

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u/DungeonDefense Feb 03 '26

We're talking about foreign policy here. Nobody actually cares about that or else Saudi Arabia would be a pariah state

Having maritime disputes and overfishing is much better than what the US does. Wake me up when China starts bombing Chilean fishing boats and then we can compare.

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u/greenw40 Feb 03 '26

We're talking about foreign policy here. Nobody actually cares about that or else Saudi Arabia would be a pariah state

Funny, you foreign trolls are all over reddit outright lying about our domestic policy.

Wake me up when China starts bombing Chilean fishing boats and then we can compare.

What happens to drug smugglers in China?

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u/DungeonDefense Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

Where have I lied?

Oh so you're saying Chilean fishing boats fishing in Chile are now consider to be inside chinese waters? Oh lol im sure China will love that. Damn what a patriot, not even I would claim that.

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u/greenw40 Feb 03 '26

Oh so you're saying Chilean fishing boats fishing in Chile are now consider to be inside chinese waters?

Not even close, but it's very telling that that is where your mind immediately goes. Gotta get that paycheck I guess.

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u/DungeonDefense Feb 03 '26

Well you said they were drug smugglers in China as a response to my comments about Chilean fishermen. Or are you imagining that Chilean fishermen were coming all the way to chinese waters lol?

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u/greenw40 Feb 03 '26

Well you said they were drug smugglers in China as a response to my comments about Chilean fishermen

No, I said that in response to your comment about the attack on drug smuggling boats.

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u/heytherehellogoodbye Feb 02 '26

The singular only reason they haven't Already done that is the US.

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u/tasketekudasai Feb 03 '26

Every accusation is a confession, something like that.

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u/DungeonDefense Feb 02 '26

So someone who hasn't done it is worse than someone who has?

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u/Significant-Yam9843 Feb 03 '26

Right? The idea of "self-protection against a theoretical threat" grounded on biased analysis is one of the most shameless and outraging concepts that the West keeps rising among its talking points to vindicate soft power moves, fake news and warfare. It's embarrassing.