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Russian President Vladimir Putin reinforced Russia’s support for China, backing Beijing’s claims over Taiwan and downplaying concerns about Sino-Russian cooperation.

At the Valdai forum, Putin stated that Russia views China as an ally with a “reasonable” policy on Taiwan, accusing Taiwan of provoking a Ukraine-style crisis in Asia.

He highlighted the strong trade and security ties between Russia and China, asserting that joint military exercises between the two nations are defensive and comparable to U.S.-Japan drills, and pose no threat to other countries.

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    5 hours ago

    Funny, I said in another thread that I think Trump isn’t going to start WWIII, he is going to create Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia.

    Looks like I could be right.

  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I wonder how much Trump is going to sell the Seventh Fleet for. I’m sure it will be the best deal ever, right?

  • PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Wow, I’m sure this announcement coming right after his puppet was elected to the US presidency is just a coincidence.

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    17 hours ago

    Isn’t this a bit of a predicament for Trump? Traditionally the US has supported Taiwan’s independence, and it seems to me that’d be continued under Trump’s “China bad” rhetoric/policy. However, getting chummy with Putin might require rescinding support for Taiwan’s independence.

    Am I missing something here?

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      17 hours ago

      Traditionally the US

      There’s your mistake. Trump doesn’t give a fuck about what the US traditionally does, and neither do his supporters. Same as Trump being blatantly pro-Russia despite the US, and the US right in particular, traditionally being anti-Russia.

      They don’t give a fuck if they’ve always been at war with Eurasia or Eastasia. All they care about is having the proles crushed beneath them, and whatever Big Brother figure promises them that, they’ll gleefully bootlick for.

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        16 hours ago

        Yeah, sure, he doesn’t care about tradition, I get that. But it also seems to me Trump has always been fairly anti-China. Ofc he’s also plenty happy to misrepresent his intent if it makes his base happy, so maybe that part was just a facade?

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      12 hours ago

      Traditionally the US does not support Taiwan independence. Go look it up.

      Though it is true that they are quietly trying to push their puppets in Taiwan to declare independence because they know damned well that is the only way they will get the war they so desperately want.

      The vast majority of the Taiwanese want the status quo to remain exactly as it is

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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    12 hours ago

    I wonder when they will fight each other. As the chinese idiom goes: two tigers cannot hide in the same mountain, with two egocentric leader going so close together, when their perceived threats is not there they will start stepping on each other’s tail.