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On January 3, the United States blatantly launched large-scale military strikes against Venezuela, forcefully seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, and took them out of the country. It claimed that it would “run” Venezuela and even did not rule out launching a second round of military operations on an even larger scale. China is deeply shocked by and strongly condemns the unilateral, illegal, and bullying acts by the United States.
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Venezuela is an independent sovereign state with every right to defend its sovereignty and national dignity. Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are important forces in maintaining world peace and stability and promoting global development and prosperity, and they have every right to independently choose their development paths and partners.
No country can act as the world’s police, nor can any country presume to be the international judge. China firmly supports the Government and people of Venezuela in safeguarding their sovereignty, security, and legitimate rights and interests. We firmly support regional countries in upholding the status of Latin America and the Caribbean as a zone of peace.
We demand that the United States change its course, cease its bullying and coercive practices, and develop relations and cooperation with regional countries on the basis of mutual respect, equality, and non-interference in internal affairs. China stands ready to work with regional countries and the international community to strengthen solidarity and cooperation, uphold fairness and justice, and jointly safeguard peace and stability in Latin America and the Caribbean.
this sounds kinda like techbro long-termism
Sounds like “Chinese socialism will survive on top of the skulls of millions of Latin American and Middle Eastern people, what do we care”
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Leading BRICS in hastening de-dollarization and enacting harsher trade and export controls in response to blatant acts of aggression would be a start. Anything other than the usual strongly worded letter and the “expressions of concern” we’ve come to expect from them. Putting any kind of skin in the game and use their place in multilateral institutions would show some solidarity.
China reaffirming their “best trade buddies” position with the US after the invasion doesn’t help for sure.
It isn’t “what do we care” it is “what is to be done”
Do you think weaking ing the soviet position to eventually lose was a worthy trade for the USSR? I doubt it. However at the time would you have said Afghanistan was worth the risk of saving it? Probably right?
So if you can picture a better way to project force into the American sphere of influence with out risking the lives of all the children on earth you have a better tactical understanding than China does of their own capabilities
The difference is a strategy. Tech bro bullshit is based on belief that the magic of technology alone will justify any sacrifice now. This belief in China isn’t based in magic, but a very planned strategy with concrete steps. And it doesn’t justify any sacrifice now, just more than you may feel comfortable with.
The fault of tech bro longtermism isn’t in thinking about long term effects, it’s the magical thinking which is grounded in little to no material reality
Which, as they want to see most people die and live in a shitty plastic utopia full of slaves and AI marvel movies, is a good wat to get what you want.
Hammer, nail, etc