• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    China’s leader Xi Jinping declared people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are Chinese and want peace.

    Isn’t that pretty much what Putin said about Ukraine before invading?

    • TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip
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      It’s a common scheme, Authoritarian claims people in neighbouring country are ethnically/culturally the same as them, accuses the target country of suppressing “their” people, invades to “Protect” “their” people. Rinse and repeat.

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        Its hilarous how liberal just throw the term authoritarian whenever they like

        how many country the non authoritarians have invaded?

    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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      I also don’t think it’s anything new?

      I’m not sure deep into the details of taiwan and china, but iirc they both more or less agree that they are “the china”, and just disagree on the exact details

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      Also Hitler called Austrians German before annexing them.

    • Gates9@sh.itjust.works
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      Idk but I believe the pretext was ethnically “Russian” people living in Ukrainian territories. It is true that the two countries share a great deal of ethnic heritage. The Rus people were from Kyiv.