Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point.

China is hypocritical as FUCK

They take Tibet, they take Hong Kong despite practically the entire island coming out to say no thanks, they threaten Taiwan every second day, and the only reason they haven’t taken Taiwan is because they wouldn’t have been able to hold it against the west

Now they see how weak Europe is and the nutter in command of the US, and their plans have accelerated, this is simply an opportunity to further push propaganda on something they were always going to do

On top of that I actually wouldn’t mind if we had a judge that aligns closer to American/Western values

China is literally right next to the totalitarian dystopian hellscape that is North Korea

Executions for watching south korean tv, 3 generations of jail as punishment for committing crimes

i would have no problems if even china which is not great even by itself could bring some sense to north korea

Even going so far as planning in details how to invade the International Criminal Court, if it ever dared to prosecute one of their soldiers for, say, murdering children in the streets.

They did. The statement is "it cannot accept countries acting as 'world judge'" meaning countries also cannot judge them, that's exactly what China is claiming.

I'm not so sure it does. China is openly arguing against Trumps logic here, and the US just did demonstrate their military is still highly effective. The US seventh fleet hasn't moved away from Taiwan, and Trump is clearly signalling he intends to keep China down.

I'd argue Xi is not happy Trump decided to actually do something like this, because it increased the risk of his plans with Taiwan as well now that the US is openly hostile and MAGA cheers it on.

China needed him to keep up the whole peace pretense and for MAGA to stay on board with that. Now that that's gone, Trump has cleared the way for more military intervention.

China claims Taiwan is theirs. Invading their own country to free it doesn't really need any extra motive (even if there is) like what Trump needed, and is not playing world police.

"cannot accept" = asking them nicely to stop. It's a nothing burger

While I agree you always need to look at who is saying what and what their motivations are, China has been investing in Venezuela, just as they have in many other countries.

They literally can't. Nor can the US dump theirs.

The US, the EU, and China are economically tied to one another. One of the reasons there hasn't been a shooting war between the East and West is how much we depend on the other's economy. Without foreign backed assets, there's nothing to trade against.

Chinese made goods are bought with American dollars. If they're not putting them back in to the US, there's no need to take them in the first place. And then who, exactly, would China be making all that crap for?