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2020-04-17 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by 3dc 2020-04-17 05:23|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 Xi going Erdogan?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-17 06:04|| 2020-04-17 06:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Hmmmm. And what about tubby up in North Korea? He didn't show up for his grand-daddy's birthday celebration. Not his sis.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-17 06:59|| 2020-04-17 06:59|| Front Page Top

#3 /\. * Nor his sis.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-17 06:59|| 2020-04-17 06:59|| Front Page Top

#4 If it were in any way a significant attempt they wouldn't be reporting it.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-04-17 08:20|| 2020-04-17 08:20|| Front Page Top

#5 BS. Smells like Stalin's 1936-era charges against "Trotskyites" and the "Right Opposition"

Posted by Lex 2020-04-17 08:29|| 2020-04-17 08:29|| Front Page Top

#6 A purge is still notable. This could mean that Xi felt (justifiably or not) threatened enough that he needed to wipe out the rest of the CCP's power brokers all at once. That would almost certainly hasten China's return to a Maoist-style political state, which no Chinese person other than Xi has seemed to want before this. If the economy crumbles to that degree as corrupt military corporate state transfers to outright communism, China will be unable to become a peer to peer power against the US.

And frankly, that would be good news for everyone outside of China.

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2020-04-17 09:37|| 2020-04-17 09:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Seems like a smokescreen to flush potential coup people out, and/or to scare those thinking about it.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-04-17 10:14|| 2020-04-17 10:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Google "Stalin, purges", Anakin.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-17 10:17|| 2020-04-17 10:17|| Front Page Top

#9 A modern version of it was what I was thinking too, Grom.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-04-17 11:04|| 2020-04-17 11:04|| Front Page Top

#10 See also, Yippee Erdogan.

Posted by AlanC 2020-04-17 11:07|| 2020-04-17 11:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Winnie Flu is f---ing evil. A dangerous clown

Posted by Lex 2020-04-17 11:07|| 2020-04-17 11:07|| Front Page Top

#12 Definitely not as exciting as Lin Biao
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Posted by 3dc 2020-04-17 12:09|| 2020-04-17 12:09|| Front Page Top

#13 You know they have to be thinking about it. Emperor Xi's big plan is an even bigger bust. The always rickety economy is heading down hard, so hard even they can't hide it.

By thoroughly up-screwing the Wuhan virus, regardless of whether it was an intentional act or simple idiocy, the once unthinkable. highly charged idea of decoupling is now a voluntary act devoid of political stance.

They may be commies, but they are not imbeciles. They have a problem that is more immediate than communism or poverty, and that's the not too bright tyrant, wanna be emperor.

Posted by Cesare 2020-04-17 12:15|| 2020-04-17 12:15|| Front Page Top

#14 From yesterday:
China's spy agency reveals details of a failed coup plotted by a former official...

Posted by Clem 2020-04-17 15:15|| 2020-04-17 15:15|| Front Page Top

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