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blahblaher • today at 1:06 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

the big difference is that China is not bombing anyone, and causing chaos to it's allies..

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nairboon • today at 4:29 PM

Or threatening to invade it's allies.

lenerdenator • today at 1:12 PM

> not bombing anyone

Not that they wouldn't bomb Taiwan if they thought they could get away with it. The reason they can't, of course, is that doing so carries the risk of starting a thermonuclear war with the United States.

> causing chaos to it's [sic] allies...

Well, there's two ways to think about this.

1) China doesn't really have allies. They've a long history of pissing off their neighborhood extending back centuries.

2) They very much are causing chaos to allies, given that the Vietnamese went so far as to buy American military goods to help defend their portion of the South China Sea, which China sees as theirs.

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thesmtsolver2 • today at 5:02 PM

Except

  1. Illegally occupying Tibet and cleansing the region 
  2. Occupying and cleansing several regions like Uyghur or Hong Kong
  3. Wars with neighbors like India and conflicts with all neighbors except North Korea
  4. indirectly arming Russia
  5. Taiwan
If China had a fraction of American power, they would be making life miserable for a lot of countries.
bamboozled • today at 1:17 PM

They are supporting countries doing the bombing…