- US puppet fucks around with China’s national interests
- China retaliates
- US puppet finds out
- repeat
postfascist empire seeks to gaslight aggrieved neighbor over former ruling party-in-exile’s petulant whining
The Kuomintang isn’t currently ruling in Taiwan province and has generally adapted a more reconciliatory approach towards Beijing
yes yes, i’m shitt poste
If the dispute drags on, a drop in Chinese visitors, such as the fall of roughly 25% seen during an island dispute in 2012, could deliver a significant economic hit for Japan, said Takahide Kiuchi, executive economist at Nomura Research Institute.
Worries about such a hit caused a dip in tourism-sensitive shares in Tokyo, with department store operator Isetan Mitsukoshi falling 11.3%, while Japan Airlines gave up 3.7%.
Yeah, the Japanese corpos probably got annoyed and yanked her leash a bit. Bourgeois dictatorship remains a bourgeois dictatorship.
When even your tourism economy depends on China, I wouldn’t try to bark at them, but fash girlboss gotta fashgirlboss
American lapdog to act as envoy in Taiwan dispute
China’s consul general in Osaka, Xue Jian, said “the dirty neck that sticks itself in must be cut off”.
Is it normal for Chinese diplomats to be that blunt?
There were a few years starting in 2019 where aggressive “Wolf warrior diplomacy” became quite prevalent, but China has backed down from that recently because it was wrecking their reputation in the recipient countries. Xue seems to be one of the holdovers.
If there’s one place in Asia that needs and deserves that sort of diplomacy, it’s Japan
Perhaps that’s why he’s one of the holdouts
Remember when Marsha Blackburn said something racist about Chinese people and Chen Weihua called her a lifetime [slur] in return?
That’s just gamer diplomacy.
