Israel was removed from Baidu Maps earlier today

Tourist endeavors really care about borders for 2 aspects: as barriers, and as places where legal or social rules change. If administrative borders had their powers limited to, say, statistical purposes, and not social obstacles, a tourist would stop caring about them.

Interfacing with humans does not necessarily have to be done along social borders. I'm sure it wasn't that way before the rise of the nation-state. Everyone knows where the Alps are, or where the Great Lakes are. Pretty much every place on Earth is covered by some geographical-not-political area name. Why shouldn't places be referred to in that way? It's harder to politically push for a change in the definition of the Gobi Desert than of an arbitrary administrative unit.

When we're borderless, there's no border for your car to cross.

>China is extremely offended by a lot of things done by a lot of countries

Yes, that's bad. Hence, "should be held to the same standard". You may reasonably disagree with that, but as it stands your implication is that the more bad things a country does, the less we should care.

Jack Ma never disappeared though, same case with the Chinese Tenis player. Thats the exact same thing the other poster was criticizing. Its the western media making up stories to fit the anti-china narrative.

It's not at all difficult to find open, unbiased, independent information about China. You could apply for a visa right now, travel there, and talk to people yourself. It's not difficult. This isn't the Mao era any more.

I didn't say all Muslims are Islamists. I said Islamists (i.e. political Islam) pose a threat to Chinese unity and the unquestioned authority of the state, which the CCP tries to project at all costs. Consider the political influence of Evangelical Christians in the US if you feel more comfortable talking about it that way. The difference is that (local) Evangelicals are a much weaker influence internationally than Islamists. The closest Christian equivalent I can think of are the Moonies in Japan but that's a regional cult generally considered separate from mainstream Christian sects.

I'm not saying anything negative about Islam here. If there were a similar international network of political Christians, China would likely be very concerned about Christian minorities as well, but as it is, Islamists pose the most direct risk of promoting separatist sentiments and this makes Muslims suspect, whether their religion is officially tolerated or not.

Heck, Tibet is another obvious example with separatist sentiments being directly tied to the religious/spiritual structure of the region and its opposition to the absolute claims to power of the central government. It's just a consequence of trying to project a monolithic structure for a territory this vast with this many ethnic groups and cultures within. Probably the weirdest and most impractical manifestation of this is in the single Chinese timezone.

> Uyghurs weren't subject to the 1 child policy

It is far worse than the one child policy. Many were subjected to sterilization and involuntary birth control.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide

https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-we...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53220713

From the top of my head - direct praises of hamas, sharing of the paratrooper meme, sharing of the star of david beheading babies meme and generally a lot of people direct or indirect calling that the Israeli deserved it. There are a lot of Mia Khalifas out there.

Since october 7th there I have observed (probably because a lot of people I follow on twitter are jewish, so they kinda amplify the nasty content) serious rise in "gas the jews" types of antisemithism on twitter.

Some of it edgelording of course, but a lot of the content there has serious bite.

I agree that this is often the case. I hate people who pull the antisemitic claim and throw it around without just cause.

Right now the main claim is about the university letters that claimed the fault of October 7th terrorist attacks are 100% due to Israel. This is dumb and devoid of factual basis. Also members of the squad said pretty ignorant things about the war.

It's a mistake even Jews make because of basic misunderstanding of the situation. E.g. the grand central demonstration.

This is all based on some correct notion: Israel has been terrible to the Palestinians. That's a fact that the Liberals are 100% correct about. There should be a Palestinian state and settlements should be removed...

But today in New York they had a demonstration which called for the formation of a Palestinian state from sea to river. That effectively means wiping out Israel.

That is the explicit charter of the Hamas. That is why it sabotaged the Oslo accord and stopped peace. Liberals are always against war, but in this case it's a war against a jihadi organization that has done everything to stop peace and a Palestinian state. Some violence is necessary to stop them.

They are also very media savvy and manipulate liberal sentiment with difficult pictures. I saw the Circus the other week. A young liberal was confronting Kamala Harris and said horrible things about Israel. He blamed Israel for the Hospital bombing and made pretty horrendous false claims. This is all false, but by the time it was proven false people don't notice it and move to the next piece of propaganda from the Hamas.

There's a liberal desire to help the weak, I'm a liberal and have that same desire. As a

You're kidding surely. that quote comes from random social media posts. A rather lazy narrative by VoA, which will get its readers to stereotype China as anti-Semitic, or as being more tolerant of anti-Semitism than the West, stereotypes you seem to have accepted too, when none of that is empirically established.

It's a strange motte-and-bailey, where media outlets are factual ("here are a few tweets"), but are always interpreted in irrational ways ("XYZ group has a big problem with ABC"), since average people are known to falsely generalize based on anecdotes. I'll take such articles seriously when they start presenting quantified empirical data. I'll be waiting a while.

> Nobody on the left or right in the west is that anti-Semitic, at least not publicly.

Jews in the west are afraid to go to universities. Stars of david were drawn on many houses in France. In a Palestinian demonstration where they called for a Palestinian state from river to sea (elimination of Israel), the only arrested person is a Jewish woman who confronted them.

I don't rush to call people antisemitic, I think most of them are just "useful idiots" for the Hamas/Iran propaganda. But there are also some people who are letting old prejudice rise and using this as an opportunity. This isn't mainstream but that's how these things start...

You haven't checked twitter after oct 7th. I have seen quite a lot of exactly that. Usually from "decolonizers"

So what I was wanting to say was that gab is not the best comparison specifically now specifically for antisemitism. Mainstream twitter is

> Nobody on the left or right in the west is that anti-Semitic

except for the neo-nazis..

I don't know how to say this but have you ever visited a site called 4chan? And that's not even the worst offender. Ever since Twitter fired most of its content moderation team, it's also pretty easy to find that kind of talk there, as well as the inverse (i.e. literal calls for genocide against non-Jewish Palestinians).

> that if both countries disappear it may be for the best.

Quoting in hopes that you read your own words and think about them a bit longer.

Nordic countries are traditional client states. Poland is semi-client with gradiose dreams of its own.

What do you mean? Whats wrong with them?

Norway is a US client state; Poland could become sovereign but they're too busy trying to annoy literally everyone doing any business with them from any side, for whatever reason.

Putin tried to be friends with Bibi, while Israel bombed Russia's Syrian allies where they see fit, and paid lip service to Ukraine.

In fact, still tries in the face of accusations that are flying around.

Interestingly, it turns out there's a wikipedia article about China's border disputes already:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_of_the_Pe...

They seem to have disputes with about half of the countries on their borders (land and maritime). That's a fair few. :/