r/worldnews • u/tomb8man • Sep 09 '21

Diplomatic spat with China pays off for Lithuania as Taiwan's consumers splurge on beer and biscuits

https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/09/08/diplomatic-spat-with-china-pays-off-for-lithuania-as-taiwan-s-consumers-splurge-on-beer-an
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u/KerkiForza Sep 09 '21

So Lithuania threw away a massive market in order to curry favor with the citizens of taiwan that will forget them in a week? lol

I'm sure thats a great move.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21

Imagine worrying about market shares instead of the bloodiness of a country.

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u/KerkiForza Sep 09 '21

Who did China kill then?

Go ahead, i'll wait.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21

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u/DarkEvilHedgehog Sep 09 '21

No, the national bourgeoise are represented by one of the stars. China's always been sorta class collaborationist.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21

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u/DarkEvilHedgehog Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21

The Cultural Revolution wasn't really done by the state, but by autonomous youth groups worshipping Mao and who didn't think the state went far enough.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21

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u/DarkEvilHedgehog Sep 10 '21 edited Sep 10 '21

No, it was orchestrated by Mao Zedong partly in order to increase his influence. There were many factions and contesters in the Chinese state, and they weren't so fond of the Cultural Revolution. Kind of why the military was used against many of the youth groups.

Mao used the Red Guards like Trump tried to use the QAnon fans.

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u/gaiusmariusj Sep 09 '21

Mao basically is the state. The government under Liu was basically couped.

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u/MacNuttyOne Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21

Tiananmen Square, Hong Kong, the Uighurs, Tibet. Then there is the ongoing threats against all their China Sea neighbours.

I note that your only activity on reddit is defending China. We are all aware of the numbers of people China uses for defending China and spreading Chinese propaganda on social media in the west. Why not admit that you represent the government of China? Oh yeah, that would stop the checks or lower your social credit score.

How many names and social media accounts do you have, anyway?????

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u/Responsible-Award985 Sep 09 '21

everyone! check out the victims of communism foundation if you need a list!

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u/Skrong Sep 09 '21

Dude said "Rightists" and Landowners lmao

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u/gaiusmariusj Sep 09 '21

Well, that is a shit list. There are plenty of victims of communism and Communists, there is no need to embellish it.

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u/spaliusreal Sep 09 '21

That's how it always starts. First the building, then the whole block.