China [Sammelthread]

Außerdem:

Hier zeigt einer der ganz großen Diplomaten unserer Zeit sein meisterhaftes Handwerk:

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So zeigt man dem Autokraten Stärke!

Mal abgesehen davon, dass Majestät diesen Dialog über Taiwan mit dem großen Vorsitzenden mit einiger Wahrscheinlichkeit frei erfunden hat, ist seine Antwort in ihrer Uneindeutigkeit dennoch ziemlich eindeutig.

Karen Kuo [Sprecherin des Präsidenten der Republik China/Taiwan]: "We want to ephasize that the republic of China is a sovereign and independent democratic country. Beijing has no right to make claims over Taiwan. We also thank President Trump for his continued support for security in the Taiwan Strait since his frst term..."

Zitat von Arnaud Bertrand - TwiX, 18.05.26

This is a major mistake that many mainstream media outlets made when they reported on this : they overwhelmingly said that "Taiwan has insisted it is a sovereign, independent nation" (which is what the BBC wrote: https://bbc.com/news/articles/cx2132w81jqo).

But if you actually listen to the official statement, that's not at all what's being said: they're saying **the Republic of China** is a sovereign and independent country, NOT Taiwan. It's very much not the same thing.

If they had said that Taiwan was an independent country, it would be a major deal, as it'd mean that Taiwan had declared independence - which it didn't.

As a reminder, the Taiwan issue is an unresolved civil war between two rival governments - the Republic of China (the ROC, now based in Taiwan) and the People's Republic of China (the PRC, based in Beijing) - both of which, to this day, formally claim sovereignty over all of China. Saying "Taiwan declares it's independent" and saying "the ROC reaffirms its sovereignty" are two completely different statements with fundamentally different implications.

The ROC saying it's sovereign and independent is a non-story. It's literally the status quo, they've been saying this since 1949. But by changing "ROC" to "Taiwan," mainstream media are created a fake crisis headline out of thin air, making it sound like Taipei has just crossed Beijing's reddest of red lines.

It's pretty insane when you think about it: mainstream media are framing the Taiwan issue in terms more radical than Taiwan's own pro-independence party (the DPP, currently in power). They're so biased in favor of Taiwan independence that they're falsely reporting it already happened

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Es war doch so, dass die Regierungspartei die Unabhängigkeit von Taiwan nicht mal propagieren kann, ohne offen gegen die Verfassung zu verstoßen.

Zitat von Wemir

Es war doch so, dass die Regierungspartei die Unabhängigkeit von Taiwan nicht mal propagieren kann, ohne offen gegen die Verfassung zu verstoßen.

Ja eben.

Aus deren Sicht ist Taiwan sozusagen nur ein Teil der Republik China, der zur Zeit auch deren einzig legitime Regierung beherbergt. Die durch die Revolution 1949 gewaltsam an die Macht gekommene kommunistische Partei der (von dieser so benannten) Volksrepublik China wird von denen nicht als legitime Regierung des gesamten chinesischen Staates angesehen.

Zitat von Arnaud Bertrand - TwiX, 20.05.26

Yet another striking illustration of just how ideologically rigid the West has become compared to what we used to be.

This was the obituary The Economist published for Mao in 1976 - at the height of the Cold War.

Read this part:

"In the final reckoning Mao must be accepted as one of history's great achievers: for devising a peasant-centred revolutionary strategy which enabled China's Communist party to seize power, against Marx's prescriptions, from bases in the countryside; for directing the transformation of China from a feudal society wracked by war and bled by corruption, into a unified egalitarian state where nobody starves; and for reviving national pride and confidence so that China could, in Mao's words, 'stand up' among the great power."

Show this text to any Economist "journalists" today - without telling them it's from their own paper - and they'd reply: surely it's "CCP propaganda"

Yes, incredible as it may sound, there used to be a time when Western journalists could assess a geopolitical rival honestly and respectfully without being accused of being a traitor. And this honesty was in no small part a key factor why the West won the Cold War. Today we call honest assessment "propaganda," and we harass, smear, and blacklist people for it. And we're puzzled why the West is in steep decline.

Truth matters.

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Hm, na ob die nicht eigentlich über ein anderes Land schreiben:

https://www.csis.org/analysis/…ploit-beijings-weaknesses

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A U.S. Campaign to Exploit Beijing’s Weaknesses

The Issue

The United States must pursue an invigorated hybrid warfare campaign that capitalizes on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) enduring vulnerabilities. The CCP prioritizes narratives over facts, is built on endemic corruption, suffers excessive strongman rule, is paranoid about U.S. intentions, and has few friends to help reduce its dependence on the United States and allies. A U.S. hybrid warfare campaign built on exploiting endemic CCP frailties will provide the United States more flexible policy options against China with the added benefit of anticipating predictable CCP responses. As the United States formulates this campaign against the CCP, it must avoid sunk cost fallacy, be risk tolerant, coordinate appropriately to achieve scale, and scope objectives to achieve clear, measurable outcomes.

Mal abgesehen von dem ein oder anderen ideologischen Tiefflug des Videocreators ist der China-Hype real. Sein Optimismus, die EU könne und könnte da irgendetwas in eine vernünftigere Richtungs einschlagen, ist bemitleidenswert