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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

China is super xenophobic, like many Asian countries.

Those savages. Yeah, that doesn’t sound racist at all, not orientalist at all. Are you Josep Borell?

If China then decided that they want to finish the job on making the Korean peninsula Chinese, who would realistically stop them?

What are you talking about? Koreans are still in Korea, speaking Korean. If it were in China’s “nature” to make Korea Chinese, then why didn’t they do it at any point over the centuries?

[–] m_f@midwest.social 1 points 16 minutes ago

Those savages

If that's what you jump to, you might want to introspect on that. They're not savages for being xenophobic, that just makes them human like the rest of us.

If it were in China’s “nature”

That paragraph is a commentary on power relations and geography. It's not in "China's nature", but if they decided to invade in a world that looked like ours today but without the US, there would realistically be nobody to stop them. Perhaps North Korean nukes would be enough of a deterrent actually, but shy of that there would be no realistic opposing force.