• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      10 months ago

      A lot of people focus on China’s actions in Africa as China being peaceful, but China has border disputes with most nations surrounding it, including adding more claims recently. It also has claims to the South China Sea that are well beyond any other kind of claims that other countries have. It also tends to treat a lot of those claims rather aggressively with its surrounding nations, trying to isolate each neighbor and use the size disparity to get a favorable agreement.

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        10 months ago

        And how does them having local, low level, territorial disputes with it’s neighbours demonstrate that they would be a world hegemon?

        It also has claims to the South China Sea that are well beyond any other kind of claims that other countries have.

        How did you determine that?

        It also tends to treat a lot of those claims rather aggressively with its surrounding nations, trying to isolate each neighbor and use the size disparity to get a favorable agreement.

        And how did you determine this?