• Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    22 hours ago

    The US killed a million innocent people in Iraq just a few years ago, and is *currently * drone bombing several countries in ME and north africa, and is currently supporting the apartheid state of israel with billions of dollars in military aid.

    The PRC has not been in a war since its skirmish with Vietnam in 1979.

    The US has a network of > 800 military bases across the globe, and has been involved in regime change in nearly every country.

    Which one is authoritarian?

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        take a look at that map and you will notice they are fucking over the entire planet.

        not just iraq, although usians like to ignore how much death and suffering they caused there. (all the while they sanction places like cuba)

        you couped my country and made it undemocratic to this day and you can’t even tell where i’m from.

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      Which one is currently genociding Uhygurs? Which one illegally annexed Tibet and Hong Kong? Both countries are authoritarian shit-holes.

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        Lol Tibet was still cutting off boys genitals to serve the lamas when china ‘invaded’

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        Nope, only one of them is a shithole.

        Which one illegally annexed Tibet

        I’m pretty sure virtually all of the Tibetan people are happy to no longer be suffering under theocratic feudalism. Happy to no longer be illiterate serfs and slaves, suffering depredation under a god-king. I doubt many of them are sad that CIA asset Dalai “suck my tongue” Lama is in exile. [1] [2]

        and Hong Kong?

        Entirely legal. In fact it would have been illegal for the UK not to hand it over.

        The UK’s 99 year lease to subjugate Hong Kong ended. A lease which had been forced upon Imperial China at gunpoint during the century of humiliation. Hong Kong reintegration after the lease expired was a foregone conclusion. The last minute, US-backed attempt at color revolution failed.

        Which one is currently genociding Uhygurs?

        Neither, but one of them trained, funded, and organized terrorists in the region, and then made up a genocide narrative, and then imposed illegal sanctions on it using the fabricated genocide narrative as a pretext. Previously.

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          Idk if it’s just me, but it’s insane to bring up Uhygur genocide, which has not been in the news or mentioned at all for years, while we watch US funded Israel blowing up starving children on a daily basis.

      • Horse {they/them}@lemmygrad.ml
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        Which one is currently genociding Uhygurs?

        none of them

        Which one illegally annexed Hong Kong?

        the uk, then they gave it back in 97

        most historically literate .worlder

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        illegally annexed… Hong Kong

        what

        Like I can get not agreeing with it but illegally annexed how do you expect to be taken even a little seriously

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          I keep hearing ‘illegal war’ in the media.

          What the fuck is a legal war? A war faught by lawyers?

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          While the transfer of power itself was fine and legal, didn’t they break the basic law they put in by violating people’s rights and freedoms? I do agree that it’s worded badly though

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            It’s weird to me that this particular law was the one the colour revolutionaries rallied behind.

            A Hong Kong resident confessed to having committed a murder on Taiwan. China extradites people summoned for court or with arrest warrants issued by the Taipei rebel government to Taiwan as long as it’s for non-political offences. So they would extradite this murderer to be tried on Taiwan.

            Different parts of China have different laws, because it’s a big country with autonomous regions. Hong Kong, not that big, but for historical reasons have their own laws as well. If someone has an arrest warrant issued by one of the other Chinese governments, they will extradite the person to their jurisdiction. If it’s a different country, with which China has an extradition treaty, then they will extradite them to Beijing (the Chinese national government) and Beijing will send them to that other country.

            Taiwan is neither a separate country, nor a Chinese government whose arrest warrants Hong Kong respects. But the guy confessed to murder. He should be tried. So new legislation is required to make it legal to extradite him to Taiwan, either directly or through Beijing.

            That was the initial controversy.

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        20 hours ago

        Only one country is genociding muslins.

        “illegally annexed” Hong Kong LMAO