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After Mao conquered other people and created one “China” did they seek international legal agreements?
@xinyiquan666 10 million in Syria and 8 million in Afghanistan. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Maharajah of Kashmir signed an instrument of accession to the Union of India by which Kashmir joined legally joined India. The butthurt religiously fanatic country launched an illegal invasion in that region. Then, the newly formed Indian republic successfully thwarted the attack. As *Peaceful* Nation , India didnt accelerate the war further and an agreement was reached. BY 1971, the head of states agreed that Kashmir, as administered from Srinagar is part of the Union of India.
*the both heads of state in respective countries.
@PJ Winkels u described urself then
When someone tells you they really think…believe them the first time!
Xhina is the threat!! WAKE UP!!
The man tells you what he really thinks, I guess he forgot he’s Chinese.
“Fool Me Once, Shame on You; Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me” – Anthony Weldon
@Victor Souza HK and Macao already returned to China. TW has been China for the very beginning… and under the ROC.
China: “Our ambassador does not represent us.”
Well, there’s your problem, don’t you think?
For once, the ambassador has honestly revealed the Chinese mindset.
A delegation of French senators arrived in Taiwan yesterday. This morning one of them, former defense minister, declared that in the event of a Chinese invasion France would align its position on that expressed by the USA. Brilliant, M. the ambassador, very well done.
What China said about Lu Shaye’s remarks seems to be a blanket statement when any of them misspeak. I find it doesn’t hold much water considering how they view the independence of Taiwan.
@ca mu Clearly the double standard of Chiina is:
Taiwan can never be independent, but Crimea can!
@Zack K obviously it’s not China that started this double-standard game.
@Crystal “one china” policy has nothing to do with Russia. If you meant “open door” policy, it’ll be more relevant.
But by end of ww2, it’s USA that signed Yalta treaty with USSR to sell China’s Manchuria. Nobody is innocent in this game, China is the one more on the victim side.
@Farm Ground Clearly it is a double standard of Chiina that
Taiwan can never be independent, but Crimea can!
Everything is being exposed
By that argument the CCP would also be illegal (for exactly the same reasons) so Taiwan should be put in charge of mainland China.
well， respect of “sovernty and territorial integraty is two different thing i guess.
Then did you just prove that Taiwan is part of China?
“If it looks like a duck… “. That diplomat could not come up with this statement unless it was the prevalent idea of the Chinese government.
When are imaginary borders a indisputable “fact”?
Because, Mexico, would like to know.
They didn’t talk about anything else behind closed doors…
@Philip W first of all, it’s not his place to decide whether they are recognized, did he really think European leaders would not react negatively
Imagine how this is playing out in those former Soviet Republics in Asia, (like Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc.) that China has been trying hard to court.
In Belarus they have probably done their best to insure that no one hears this, but Lukashenko is going to be weakened and is closer to developing ulcers.
What can these small countries do?
@Zhen 15 russia cant even defeat ukraine, what makes you think they could defeat those countries
@Zhen 15 they can choose not to work with China and work with Europe and US and others. China doesn’t understand how Europe works. They are very very into county sovereignty and will do anything to have security in Europe if that includes not doing business with China they will pick that.
China needs to remember its 2 biggest exports are Europe and America. And that China is a country that is very reliant on exports. It needs to listen to them and not Russia. But they aren’t so far.
No, these countries are fine with Almaty declaration 1991. They are safe.
A stunning development. This would allow China to say that they never full recognized Russia as a legitimate entity. That is *not* a card they wanted to show just yet.
@Yaqi Wang but it was the implication that they even needed to, it’s not his place to decide that anyway
@Tasreas Fatemsa China and Russia will ba obliterated before that ever happens 😂😂
@汉服百度 Hanfu Colorful did the ambassador? 🤣😂🤣😂🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
So then I guess a US ambassador to China can say “I support Taiwan’s sovereignty, and do not recognize China’s claim to the island nation” since they should not be the subject of over-interpretation.
True. Love to see him speak his mind.
@martin van buren then why are you still here?
😂 日本冲绳也是中国领土包括关岛这不是美国领土包括阿拉斯加
@cc beh You~tube is a US website!
Yet France out here having a hard on for China to help reason with Russia 😂
How do you think the ambassador would react to a claim that China is really only a vassal state of Mongolia, as it was for Ghengis Khan?
I am fine with Northern Eurasia Confederacy with the capital in Ulaanbaator.
We defeat Mongolian. Mongolian empire capita l is in beijing China. Rofl. I am Chinese race. Hk resident
Good on you Lithuanian your comment was so firm and strong
Lu Shaye is knowledgeable about the world, especially the countries of the Soviet Union. he said a truth that didn’t live up to the EU’s expectations
The Alma-Ata Protocols were the founding declarations and principles of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus had agreed to the Belovezha Accords on 8 December 1991, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved and forming the CIS. On 21 December 1991, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan agreed to the Alma-Ata Protocols, formally establishing the CIS. The latter agreement included the original three Belavezha signatories, as well as eight additional former Soviet republics. Georgia was the only former republic that did not participate while Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia refused to do so as according to their governments, the Baltic states were illegally incorporated into the USSR in 1940.[1]
@Thiện Phú He is right about
That India is one part of UK not very long time ago!
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time”-Maya Angelow
Being nice can’t help stop them sending representatives to Taiwan, let’s try being a bad guy this time.
Lu Shaye is knowledgeable about the world, especially the countries of the Soviet Union
@Thiện Phú He is right
That India is one part of UK not very long time ago!
“Fool Me Once, Shame on You; Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me” – Anthony Weldon
Bush and Trump’s America
If what this ambassador said is true then what about the Russian Federation? Remember what the Ukrainian ambassador to the UN was saying about Russia leading up to the war?
So if China wants to say old Soviet states are not valid… that includes Russia also.
The guys behind lavrov be like he’s gonna invade us if we say anything… Those faces. 😂😂😂
A Chinese official and specially a Chinese ambassador has no personal opinion.
Everything he/she says is the opinion of the Country and the CPC.
He/she would never risk to come with a different opinion in public or to anyone outside the inner circle as he/she very well knows that he/she will at least lose his/her job doing it, and very well risk a long time behind bars or even at worst, lose his/her life.
So, when the ambassador said this, you can be 100% sure that this is exactly the view China have.
If you know anything about the history of the ambassador he doesn’t speak in a disciplined way so you’re just speaking out of ignorance when you say that’s the official Chinese position
Besides Russia absorbing the former soviet states will make Russia stronger
China wants a weak Russia so it becomes a vassal state
But wants Russia to remain strong enough to remain a strategic distraction for the west
@Get a forehead reduction
China need to always keep the narrative that Taiwan is not an independent nation and that it belongs to China.
Just like Putin and Russia are having the same narrative about countries that was once under the Soviet Union.
A Chinese ambassador that more than once speak outside the party line will not continue to have his job.
In most cases they would not have that job anymore after the first time they do it.
You are extremely naive if you think he can.
He would not have that job for that many years if he didn’t do exactly what they want him to do and have exactly the view they want him to have.
Yup. China have that social ranking.
Anyone who does not follow rules by govt, his social points decrease.
Drastic decrease by not following rules are announced in public, even tell companies not to hire these people, for not following rules of society.
As any ambassador, this person has to follow its country rules as it will affect his social points.
We are sliding off the edge of reason into international lunacy.
Impressive diplomacy.
“The EU can only suppose these declarations do not represent China’s official policy.” I wonder if EU ever thought about where did his ideas come from? If I recall correctly, Chinese officials don’t really have “personal opinions”.