I forget the last time China won a war?
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Vietnam also fought China in the 80s. Dunno who won what.
But agreed the USA didn't exactly win in Korea either. It was likely for the reasons of all out war that they stopped.
It seems communist China has won quite a few more minor conflicts. But hardly wars they're directly involved in.
USA technically didn't lose the Vietnam War. It was a bigger narrative for any hippies. The recall. Hell Nixon got reelected by a majority to win that war. But a change of presidency recalled any troops. Possibly citing a loss.
Until history repeats itself. Communism or otherwise reasserting itself. Regionally, China.
Yea the USA lost the Vietnam War by the standards of then and today. If a single conflict cost its majority that was indeed it. Of course it won the Gulf and Iraq. But just recalled from Afghanistan, loss, the narrative certainly lost.
Who was Deng Xiaoping and what were his policies?
Which side has the gibsmedat policies for a class of welfare parasites? It's not China.
Which side has "gay" marriage?
(((Taiwan)))!!
That China hasn't won much, no, almost never in warfare.
Communist China has had quite a few more victories in warfare. Again China as a whole if we're talking China as a whole.
Any war here would be a remarkable victory for China? Going by its record.
The point of debate.
Not that they'd win. There. Eventually who knows what happens. Easier to play sides by funding whatever wants to trade. Easier to acquire resources from stability. Easier to get those resources cheaper from a tyrant.
Who knows, who cares. But the narrative didn't win shit. They became a bunch of mollycoddled cravens.
My mention is due to absurd press popping up. It stirred my ire. They dropped their weapons and ran. They didn't resist. The only resistance was from the Taliban. Anybody else was mollycoddled and paraded as fantasies. The Taliban and their networks simply exploded bombs daily. Those who claimed to align faster detonated them. Women, children, personnel trained turned into foes.
But the narrative hasn't won anything. It put up ballet school's and women's football teams. Some kind of resistance and indoctrination?
Yes it present a problem. Who claims and who gains. Iran, not liked, not even when it was Persia. India and factions. Pakistan and factions. China and the investment. Meanwhile it breeds these other fanatics who faster incite who knows.
I think there's probably more opportunity if it's not got an invader inciting them against. When the cameras are off business gets done. Who knows. It was a heap of bullshit, and the propaganda was even worse.