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       Re: China and United States Relations 
   DIR By: rp
       Date: February 12, 2026, 9:49 am
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       Lol. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black:
  HTML https://www.npr.org/2026/02/12/g-s1-109738/u-s-says-peru-could-lose-sovereignty-to-china
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       Re: China and United States Relations
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: February 25, 2026, 5:30 pm
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkBynYq906c
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       > there is
       > 4:01
       > someone playing for the New Zealand
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       > team, nobody's talking about them.
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       > There's someone Americanb born playing
       > 4:06
       > for the UK team, nobody's talking about
       > 4:09
       > them.
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       Even though the American Revolution was literally against the
       British Empire. This is further evidence that US rightists are
       not Americans at all, but Western occupiers. Commenters have
       also noticed this:
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       > They didn't say shit when Armand Deplantis won pole vault gold
       for Sweden, even though he was born and raised in the US.
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       But then False Leftist Fiorentini starts failing:
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       > heralding Alyssa Louu's win and
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       > saying she just became the first woman
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       > to wi woman to win the freekate gold
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       > medal since 2002 and she refused to
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       > compete for China and she's woke. I mean
       > 4:34
       > this is quite literally the meme of like
       > 4:39
       > you know the fighter jet dropping a bomb
       > 4:41
       > and the Democrat one has like you know
       > 4:43
       > an LGBTQ plus flag like she's woke but
       > 4:47
       > we still hate China.
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  HTML https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/alysa-liu-trump-comments-resurface-205405952.html
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       > What has Alysa Liu said about Trump?
       >
       > While Alysa Liu hasn’t directly said anything about Donald
       Trump himself, she has criticized his policies. “I definitely do
       care what our country is doing,” she said in an interview with
       KARE 11. “I think it is really important also to notice the
       faults in our own government. Things are a little rough. There’s
       so many protests that are going on and I’ve attended. Coming
       from a family of immigrants, I think immigrants deserve rights.”
       >
       > “I mean, coming from a family of immigrants, like, I think
       immigrants deserve rights. I think it’s a little silly,
       especially in America.”
       >
       > Alysa’s teammate, Amber Glenn, who’s a fierce critic of the
       Trump administration and an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, also
       posted a TikTok carousel featuring the two rocking out their
       gold medals. She captioned the post, “If ‘Woke’ means people who
       use their platforms to advocate for marginalized communities in
       the country that they are actively representing……. Then yeah
       sure?”
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       I do not see a problem with US leftists praising Liu for being
       anti-Trump. In fact, I would like to see China proactively
       praising Liu as a true American, thereby implying that US
       leftists are the true Americans. Unfortunately, "New China" is
       all about comparing Liu unfavourably to Gu:
  HTML https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czr07r0vengo
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       > one is being hailed a trailblazer, while the other is deemed a
       traitor. At least that's the case in the eyes of some in the US.
       On Chinese social media, it's the other way around.
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       So long as this continues, can we blame US leftists for finding
       it hard to like China?
       In fact, the only difference is that whereas US rightists have
       no problem with US-origin athletes representing other countries
       so long as these countries are Western (as Fiorentini accurately
       pointed out), "New China" attacks Chinese-origin athletes
       representing other countries even if these countries are
       non-Western:
  HTML https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3321581/chinese-table-tennis-fans-slam-harimoto-over-medical-timeout-against-wang-chuqin
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       > Chinese table tennis fans have accused Japan’s Tomokazu
       Harimoto of feigning injury to take advantage of a medical
       timeout as he won the World Table Tennis Champions Yokohama
       title against Wang Chuqin.
       >
       > Harimoto, who was born to Chinese parents, stunned world
       champion Wang 4-2 at the Yokohama Buntai arena on Monday to win
       his first WTT Champions crown since lifting the European Summer
       Series in 2022.
       >
       > However, Chinese fans cried foul play, posting images of
       Harimoto calling for a medical timeout and seemingly gesturing
       towards his left leg, only to have a physiotherapist massage his
       right leg.
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       I actually agree that Harimoto is an extremely annoying
       individual. But this is still no excuse for Eurocentrism:
  HTML https://www.chosun.com/english/sports-en/2025/12/08/CUL46ZMRIVGXBJ3MDWGXLDJNBE/
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       > In the third round between Japan and France, Chinese
       spectators cheered “Fight!” whenever a French player scored.
       They showered Japan with jeers when they scored.
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       Re: China and United States Relations
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: March 4, 2026, 6:33 am
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a9Q_wS79Ms
       I agree that the reporter's question was not offensive, and that
       so many felt offended by it is a problem with the entire "New
       China" mentality that will keep US-China relations inside a
       vicious cycle of negativity.
       I also suspect that Gu being given the prestige that she has in
       China is itself a symptom of  Eurocentrism. The US-born athletes
       mentioned in the previous post who choose to represent
       UK/Sweden/etc. are not especially prestigious in those
       countries. Why is Gu so prestigious in China (above even other
       athletes representing China with more medals than her)? I think
       we all know why.
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       Re: China and United States Relations
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: March 9, 2026, 3:43 am
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  HTML https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/us-china-running-world-together-china-says-no-thanks-rcna262278
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       > The concept of a “G2” — a more exclusive version of the Group
       of Seven or Group of 20 forums — was introduced in 2005 by
       American economist C. Fred Bergsten to underscore the importance
       of communication between the world’s two biggest economies.
       Though it was initially embraced by some policymakers, the idea
       fell out of favor in Washington amid rising tensions with
       Beijing, including during Trump’s first term.
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       This was the correct approach, an application of successional
       unipolarity as I explained previously:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/duginism/msg28598/?topicseen#msg28598
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       > One thing I can't stand is how many useful idiots have picked
       up the Duginist term multipolar world and now use it with
       positive connotations (thereby unwittingly serving Duginism).
       Back in the Counterculture era, the very notion of a multipolar
       world would have been considered both barbaric and hazardous.
       What we believed in back then was a unipolar world at any one
       time, with the pole being voluntarily passed from one country to
       another over time. Just as America took over from Britain, we
       were expecting Japan to take over from America, and then China
       to take over from Japan, and then India to take over from China,
       and so on. (Of course, the tacit understanding was that no
       Western country would ever be given the pole again.) To advocate
       for a multipolar world is to disrupt this orderly process of
       succession just described. (Homework: which civilization has the
       greatest selfish incentive to support a multipolar world?)
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/duginism/msg28609/?topicseen#msg28609
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       > One pole at a time offers enough flexibility (compared to the
       same pole all the time) for a subsequent pole to address
       problems neglected or poorly handled by its predecessor. It
       allows each current pole country to voluntarily step down as
       soon it feels the next country is ready to step up, as opposed
       to trying to hold onto the pole for itself at any cost long
       after its prime has passed, and crashing catastrophically when
       it finally loses its grip. This should be the preference of all
       with sincere folkish intentions (ie. not Duginists).
       >
       > I personally view the successional unipolar world as a product
       of hydraulic thinking. Initially one river supplies the most
       water, so we build canals from that river, and the main village
       on that river manages the water supply. But later we notice
       signs of the river drying up, so we reroute the canals to an
       adjacent river, whereupon of course a different village (surely
       one on this new river) should now manage the water supply.
       --- End Quote ---
       The US disrupted the expected line of succession outlined above
       by refusing to pass the pole to Japan following the end of the
       Cold War, instead pre-emptively using:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord
       to sabotage Japan. But if the US can now pass to China, at least
       the principle of successional unipolarity can be saved.
       Unfortunately, China is rejecting it. Back to the first link:
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       > Wang said China will “never seek hegemony or expansion” and
       that it wants to build “an equal and orderly multipolar world.”
       --- End Quote ---
       Duginist alert! An "equal and orderly multipolar world" is
       oxymoronic. That poles exist implies non-poles exist also, which
       already ensures inequality. That multipoles exist ensures
       disorder greater than with a unipole only.
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       > “Looking back in history, great power rivalry and bloc
       confrontation have invariably inflicted disaster and pain on
       humanity,” he said.
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       Great power rivalry and bloc confrontation are literally what
       you get with a multipolar world, you moron! A pole is literally
       the same thing as a great power, and a bloc is the pole + the
       totality of its followers, therefore having more than one
       guarantees trouble.
       Looking back in history?
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Sinica
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       > Pax Sinica (Latin for "Chinese peace"; traditional Chinese:
       中華治世; simplified Chinese:
       中华治世; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Zhìshì)
       is a historiographical term referring to periods of peace and
       stability in East Asia,[1] Northeast Asia,[2] Southeast Asia,[1]
       and Central Asia[3] led by China. A study on the Sinocentric
       world system reveals that the multiple periods of Pax Sinica,
       when taken together, amounted to a length of approximately two
       thousand years.[4]
       --- End Quote ---
       Back to first link:
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       > “The agenda of high-level exchanges is already on the table,”
       he said. “What the two sides need to do now is to make thorough
       preparations accordingly, create a suitable environment, manage
       the risks that do exist and remove unnecessary disruptions.”
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       You know someone is incompetent when they talk while saying
       nothing.
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       > Wang reiterated Beijing’s calls for an immediate halt to
       military action and a return to dialogue, saying the war with
       Iran “does no one any good.”
       --- End Quote ---
       On the contrary:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/iran/msg32306/#msg32306
       But, as I said above, Wang is a Duginist.
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Yi#Russia
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       > In his 2022 meeting with Wang at the SCO, Russian foreign
       minister Sergey Lavrov attended praised the "traditional
       friendship" between Russia and China.[19] Wang reaffirmed
       support for Russia, saying that China will "firmly support
       Russia, under the leadership of President Putin … to further
       establish Russia's status as a major power on the international
       stage".[78]
       > ...
       > In December 2022, Wang defended China's position on the
       Russo-Ukrainian War and said that China would "deepen strategic
       mutual trust and mutually beneficial cooperation" with
       Russia".[79]
       > Wang and Xi at the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, 22
       October 2024
       >
       > In February 2023, Wang announced his peace initiative for the
       Russian invasion of Ukraine at the 59th Munich Security
       Conference.[80]
       > ...
       > While the plan attracted support from Hungarian Prime Minister
       Viktor Orbán, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that
       the plan "doesn't have much credibility because [the Chinese]
       have not been able to condemn the illegal invasion of
       Ukraine."[82]
       > ...
       > In July 2025 Wang Yi allegedly told European diplomats in an
       unofficial meeting that China does not want Russia to lose the
       war in Ukraine.[85][86]
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       #Post#: 32601--------------------------------------------------
       Re: China and United States Relations
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: May 10, 2026, 5:08 pm
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPsgtsrRmbo
       Realistic comments:
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       > Trump would give up Taiwan for a perceived big deal.
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       > they'll both be scoring points with each other for buddying
       with Putin. I see Ukraine losing ground over this meeting.
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       Hopeful comment:
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       > I still have the feeling that this summit will not go ahead as
       planned. There will be some reason Trump doesn’t go.
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       I would definitely prefer no dialogue between the US and China
       until both Trump and Xi are out.
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       Re: China and United States Relations
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 6, 2026, 5:06 pm
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       I have no idea what is going on here:
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSxgKhhmlEM
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Chao
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       > A September 16 letter from the Oversight committee to Chao
       documented allegations that the Department of Transportation was
       forced to cancel a trip to China in 2017 that Chao had planned
       to take because State Department ethics officials challenged her
       attempts to include her family members in official meetings with
       the Chinese government.
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       #Post#: 32816--------------------------------------------------
       Re: China and United States Relations
   DIR By: Sunlight
       Date: July 7, 2026, 7:13 pm
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       I'm gonna have to let time clarify that one
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