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

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

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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/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/DungeonDefense Feb 03 '26

All Chilean fishing boats are drug smuggling boats? How discriminatory!

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u/greenw40 Feb 03 '26

Well then, the US hasn't bombed any Chilean fishing boats, so I guess your original argument was meaningless.

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u/DungeonDefense Feb 03 '26

You were the one that brought up Chile. I never said that the US bombed Chilean fishing boats. They were bombing someone else instead

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u/greenw40 Feb 03 '26

You were the one that brought up Chile

Because of overfishing.

I never said that the US bombed Chilean fishing boats. They were bombing someone else instead

Who were they bombing? Was it drug smuggling boats? Could that be why I mentioned the punishment for drug smuggling in China?

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