China hopes France can "stabilise the tone" of EU-China relations, vice-premier He Lifeng told a senior French minister in Beijing on Saturday, as European leaders debate how to "de-risk" but also cooperate with the world's second-largest economy.
  • 133arc585@lemmy.ml
    44·
    1 year ago

    > If France does that we will beat their ass.

    I wish I could say this response is surprising, but it’s really not. When you can’t win by diplomacy, reasoning, and discussion, and when you feel that you have the right to punish other countries for being sovereign, you resort to force and “beat their ass”.

    Do you believe France is sovereign, can make their own decisions, and can act in their own best interest, and are fully competent and able to do so? Or do you not believe they have the right to be sovereign and you (whoever “we” is) have the right to force them to align with your interests? If they end up in any agreement with China, it was their own decision and they did so because it benefits them in some way; do you feel you are permitted to punish them for that?

    • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works
      43·
      1 year ago

      Nah i and my Cookiejar will personally drive the 20 minutes to France and slap someone’s ass for it.

      China is a shithole, Dictatorship, with a ongoing genocide and i as a German think its absolutely not ok to even speak with them regarding anything except telling them they can fuck off until they stop genociding people.

      Feel the need to further this argument? I don’t care, China is like North Korea to me, fuck them both.

      And no, this is about EU matters so France is not sovereign regarding that.