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Italy Joins China's New Silk Road Project

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132 points pseudolus | 2 comments | 23 Mar 19 13:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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outwebbyyou ◴[23 Mar 19 14:59 UTC] No.19470706[source]▶
Hmm. Italy allies with an evil dictatorship that has a concentration camps for millions of minorities, and prosecutes religion by shutting down churches and jailing pastors. Sounds familiar...
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coliveira ◴[23 Mar 19 16:13 UTC] No.19471016[source]▶
The US has allied itself with China since the 80s...
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adventured ◴[23 Mar 19 17:29 UTC] No.19471373[source]▶
The US is not an ally of China. It cooperates with China to maintain peaceful military and political relations in Asia and it has vast trade with China. There's a dramatic, fundamental difference between being an ally and being a global competitor that you try to get along with (ie try not to go to war with as you collide repeatedly on matters of perceived national interest).

Britain, France, Germany, Poland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, etc. Those are allies of the US. I don't think there's actually much confusion in the difference between a US ally relationship like Britain and the modern US relationship with China.

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1. coldtea ◴[23 Mar 19 20:52 UTC] No.19472307[source]▶
>There's a dramatic, fundamental difference

Yes, the difference being "when it suits the US it's OK, when it suits somebody else, it's bad".

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2. coldtea ◴[24 Mar 19 13:03 UTC] No.19476097[source]▶
>China is built on thievery and finally after decades of escalating theft US is looking like we’re being more aggressive, maybe.

Yeah, more proving my point.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2013-02-01/piracy...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/06/we-were-pirates-too/

Not to mention that the same exact argument was once leveled at the "subpar" "copycat" "ripoffs" of Taiwan and Japan (regarding cars, electronics, etc) back in the 60s and 70s. Funny how that turned out...