Not a coincidence but it's part of a larger shift in how the west views China. Those Canadians were kidnapped and arrested as retaliation because the CCP often deals in hostage diplomacy and kangaroo courts. Just read about the Causeway Bay Books kidnappings.
I mean, it's only confirmed the moment an American president starts acting as the world's prime bully, no matter whether they are Democrat or Republican, because they are all the same, and everyone cheers.
Trump is a moron, and I don't agree or cheer for him at all. His antics do not make China look any better. He will be gone, hopefully sooner than later. But the PRC runs a literal police state to mass control their populace and kinaps journalists and dissidents. It's not equal, there's no whataboutism to equivocate the two.
You have to understand that many countries have been hurt more by the US than China.
The pivot against the PRC happened with Obama, not Trump. That is what the TPP was about. You keep making this about Trump but it's not that simple. There is international, bi-partisan support for re-evaluating how the west views the PRC.
It horrifies me. I want it all to stop. I want both to stop.
Trump bad, equals Trump bad. Period.
That's why I say Americans think they are the world police.
I agree completely with this. They are using their monopoly in a sector for their technological and trade wars. And they take other countries along with the ride.
Says the genius who equated the Trump administration's shitty stance on the environment to the enslavement of millions of Muslims. Here's how they're different - Americans can vote someone new in who does care about the environment. Let me know when the millions of imprisoned Muslims get a vote about their future. Both-sides bullshit you're spewing.
And why should the rest of Nato do what the US decides, exactly? How do you "get" us do do things?
That's my point it isn't just the Americans. The PRC's neighbours despise the PRC more than the US ever will, parts of Africa aren't too keen on the PRC's attempts of Neo-colonialism, Canada is being bullied endlessly, and Europe too is tired of foreign companies being exploited by the PRC, their abuses of WTO rules, and bullying other small European nations like Norway.
We would follow Canada, and other Western nation's shortly after. We don't dictate what other countries do, but when China is blarring using hauwei products and infrastructure tospy on everyone and people pretend hauwei is not an arm of prc I laugh
Pulled something like what? Go look at the list of companies China has banned.
Made In but not Designed in.
Well, you don't deal by unilaterally starting a huge trade war and disrupting the whole world's supply chain. There are many ways of averting the political influence of the PRC. This is certainly not the way, and it's not very effective.
Is there evidence of that? You need evidence, not suspicion or dislike of China. You could link evidence if it exists. I'd like to read it.
Lol.
"I hope they develop a better understanding of human rights." Nice handwave again of religious re-education camps. If only someone would just teach the Chinese government that it's wrong to enslave millions!
Ehm, the burden on proof is on the list that you cannot access those sites in China.
I don't refute that there is a massive difference in scale.
I always thought that America was our ally. But Trump has been threatening and treating Europe bad for a couple of years now. And if push comes to shove I don't know which side America would choose.
