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[Blowback S5] China not looking so hot in this season. (hexbear.net)

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I'm finishing the last episode of S5 now, and I'll be fully caught up on this series. Between Afghanistan and Cambodia, China's willingness to play ball with the US and its agenda is frustrating to learn.

It leaves me wanting to learn more about the Sino/Soviet split. The way this division manifested really aligned China with some dark forces, it would seem.

I also imagine the process of "normalization" with the US plays a huge role in the way this history unfolds as well.

It makes me wonder what they knew about The Khmer Rouge's operations. I was left with the impression, based on how the history was laid out, that China was aware of just how aggressive and bloody the Khmer Rouge's policies were.

Something about that stretch of time between 79 and 89 seems to have resulted in a bunch of weird geopolitical stuff.

Need to finish this episode, I guess.

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[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 3 weeks ago (18 children)

History proves them right then 🤷

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

I don't think it's that simple. It's impossible to say now how much or if any of their mistakes were actually necessary to that survival.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

If losing four decades of progress while waiting for the PRC to reach parity with the US and establish multipolarity when the USSR was already at near parity, then china sacrificed the interests of humanity in service of its own, full stop

We passed 1.5C ffs

[–] RomCom1989@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

One could argue letting the US have a unipolar moment induced a terminal delusion in the minds of it's ruling class and untethered them a lot from reality,and now we're beginning to see the payoff

The soviets,by doing those things,kept the western world on its toes and made it necessary to boot out any cranks or truly incompetent people

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