China tells India to 'stay calm' in border map row

India is angry at a new Chinese map which it says lays claim to its territory in the Himalayas.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/2142660

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NotAnArdvark 28 points 3 years ago

If there's one lesson my wife has taught me it's that telling someone to "calm down" is a sure fire way to not have them calm down.

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anytimesoon 2 points 3 years ago

I've come to accept this as true from making that mistake a few times. I just don't understand it, though. People really seem to hate it.

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SheeEttin 17 points 3 years ago

Home invader tells residents to "stay calm" in occupancy kerfuffle

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Drusas 2 points 3 years ago

Except the home invader doesn't intend to leave, ever. This is their house now.

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someguy3 13 points 3 years ago

You will be assimilated. Please stay calm.

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captainlezbian 12 points 3 years ago

“We really don’t understand why you’re so insistent on this whole sovereignty thing”

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DmMacniel 5 points 3 years ago

Your level of calmness will be added to your permanent social score.

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DmMacniel 8 points 3 years ago

As a great Jaffa once said: "Thing's will not calm down. Things will in fact calm up." (which means escalating)

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Anonbal185 7 points 3 years ago

China is all aggressive because they know it's now or never. Even before the bad news with their economy it was already a foregone conclusion beforehand.

Everyone knew their population would decline. Then their comparative advantage disappears. Their advantage is a shitload of people, even with a lower GDP per capita it's still significant as it's 4x the population as the next country (besides India, who are on an even lower GDP per capita right now)

Due to the sheer numbers they can use their internal market as political leverage. Disagree with them and no money for you.

There's a few skirmishes but I think Putin has made Xi think twice. Although I do believe China can sustain quite a bit of losses if they do go to war before their advantage of many people disappears.

Firstly they have excess males so theoretically even if they lose excess soldiers it wouldn't affect their birth rate as the issue is lack of women not men.

Might be a two eggs in one basket outlook for them, gain a bit of territory and rebalance their gender ratio.

We can only hope Putin's war has made Xi think twice whilst we bide our time whilst their population decreases.

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TimeMuncher2 7 points 3 years ago

Stay calm. We're just taking this and this and this from your territory. No need to get so worked up. Don't know why you're getting so angry.

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kaitco 2 points 3 years ago

China: India - Be cool, brah.

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