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nixon_why69yesterday at 2:22 PM3 repliesview on HN

Name one country China has attacked/invaded in the last 40 years.


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seanmcdirmidyesterday at 2:57 PM

India, Russia, Philippines, Vietnam (south China sea island taking), Russia (their last border skirmish was in the 90s), itself (PLA soldiers were used and killed people in TS 1989).

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iepathosyesterday at 2:53 PM

The idea that China hasn't 'attacked anyone' in 40 years is factually incorrect. In 1988, they engaged in a deadly naval skirmish with Vietnam over the Johnson South Reef. More recently, the PLA engaged in fatal border clashes with India in the Galwan Valley (2020). On top of direct skirmishes, they have engaged in constant gray-zone aggression: violently ramming Philippine and Vietnamese vessels in the South China Sea, firing water cannons at supply ships, and surrounding Taiwan with live-fire military blockades. That doesn't even touch on the internal human rights abuses against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Multiple international bodies and governments have recognized what they are doing to Uyghurs since 2014 as genocide. Finally, it's hard to ignore their devastating handling of COVID-19. The active suppression of information, punishment of early whistleblowers, and refusal to cooperate with international investigations resulted in unprecedented worldwide damage, amounting to an act of gross global endangerment.

JumpCrisscrossyesterday at 2:25 PM

> Name one country China has attacked/invaded in the last 40 years

India [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_China%E2%80%...

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