Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 years agoChina backs Argentina’s Falklands claim, calls for end to ‘colonial thinking’www.scmp.comexternal-linkmessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkChina backs Argentina’s Falklands claim, calls for end to ‘colonial thinking’www.scmp.comAwoo [she/her]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 years agomessage-square83fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareConcured [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 years agoDon’t Argentina’s claims basically come from it being part of the same Spanish colony? Cause idk that doesn’t sound very de-colonialist to me. but like, on serious note, this is probably just China doing the whole ‘East Turkestan is a real country’ shit but in reverse.
minus-squareblobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoI mean it might be because it’s right there
minus-squareusernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoYou could also use that argument to claim any other island belongs to the nearby landmass. By that logic Florida has a claim on Cuba
Don’t Argentina’s claims basically come from it being part of the same Spanish colony? Cause idk that doesn’t sound very de-colonialist to me.
but like, on serious note, this is probably just China doing the whole ‘East Turkestan is a real country’ shit but in reverse.
I mean it might be because it’s right there![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/00d73f2c-847c-4a39-8b5e-52486fefa868.png)
You could also use that argument to claim any other island belongs to the nearby landmass. By that logic Florida has a claim on Cuba