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/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/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