• legion02@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    I’m not really surprised. They’re the only nation really equipped to step into the power vacuum America is leaving behind and I’m sure it isn’t lost in Xi the kind of stability and influence that gave America over the years.

    The only question (and frankly the one they’re asking here) is will what’s left of the free world accept them even though they’re not really a free nation.

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      13 days ago

      The bigger question rather than letting them step into that spot is whether it means we’ll let them take Taiwan and other contested islands in the Pacific without a struggle. I think they’ll be allowed because there isn’t another option while Republicans remain in power in the US.

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        12 days ago

        I wouldn’t be surprised if everybody just “suddenly remembered” that we never recognized it as a separate country in the first place.