https://x.com/netsensor1/status/2070848281379533008
China having a coastline? Don’t be silly. That’s propaganda. Even if they did have one, who would they want to protect themselves from? It’s not like they’ve ever been invaded by anyone. 
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I think if you take a maximalist interpretation of territorial waters for surrounding countries China does actually have extremely limited access to international waters. Like how they get accussed of violating Taiwanese airspace when they fly over mainland china.
Looks like a shitpost
reads like llm to llm interaction tbh
I think it’s AI translation, there’s a little Grok symbol there
I think this may just be a case of really bad translation? Or difficulty with just knowing the right term. Someone from an island nation probably would struggle to find the word to describe a…continental(?) country, I would probably call a nation on a continent “landlocked” as a brainfart myself.
Although their question about “where do the aircraft carriers go?” does make it seem like they think China is actually landlocked.
Maybe they think Vietnam has a Chile thing going on and just stretches up along the whole coastline?
Croachina
I support Long Nam on the basis that it’s funny
probably 30% or more of china’s population lives in that coastal strip, so viet long would be maybe 3/4 chinese which is also funny i guess
One Belt, One Road
One Coast, One Countrynow the same format with viet cong and viet long xD
内陸国, used in the original non translated tweet, literally translates to “landlocked country”. 内陸 is like interior of a landmass and 国 is country
Also if you go on their timeline their most recent retweet is some guy talking about a Chinese textbook from 1979 with no reference to the Nanjing massacre and heavily implying that because of this it’s fabricated soooooo maybe not someone worth the benefit of the doubt
Yeah, probably not worth giving them the benefit of the doubt. It was more just as someone from an island nation myself, I wouldn’t really know the thing to call a not-island country, so I could see someone making a similar mistake. The rest of their tweet does show that they probably weren’t just being ignorant of the term and were trying to disparage China somehow by calling them landlocked.
No, this person is just really that dumb. He’s a Takaichi supporter, and his entire tweeting history is full of absolute nonsense.
The internet really does enable the people who should be investigating the most and not speaking to instead speak the most and refuse to investigate.
OP is from a timeline where viet nam kept going in 1979
Someone from an island nation probably would struggle to find the word to describe a…continental(?) country,
Japanese does not lack terms for describing the geographic situation of China’s eastern coast compared to Japan. They have an extensive shared cultural heritage, including a long period of the Japanese intelligentsia sitting in China’s shadow, and then a long period of them arguing against that attitude (frequently with silly arguments like “well our monarchs are gods”), and then another, and another.
They have catalogues of taxonomies we can barely even comprehend for talking about China, and some of it probably doesn’t translate very well, but I don’t think it would ever mistranslate as “landlocked” rather than something like continental, as you said.
I was erring on the side of “I’m Australian and I would probably say something dumb like that about a country that isn’t an island by mistake” but it is different when you’re speaking and misspeak vs typing something out for sure.
Or they’re some sort of fascist who thinks the coastal parts of China are all rightfully Japanese but “occupied” by the communists.
Like those Japanese soldiers who think WW2 never ended, except they think that China’s coastline is still occupied by the Japanese.
Vhile
I wanna see the map in their minds, how does it look? What do they think borders china? Do they also think Japan is not an island? Or do they assume the two Koreas cover the entire coastline?
I hope this is a mistranslation, because to get your immediate geography wrong is crazy.
It is not a mistranslation. Just average fascist world knowledge.
(Although the rest of the translation is terrible, obviously)
Idaho is IRGC
Whenever I see one of these things I do wonder how many of these people understood the question and actually tried to answer sincerely, vs how many were just putting a pin in a map at random so this person would leave them alone.
If you want to lose faith in our school system every year or two an AP history teacher I know has a kid that forgets the land on a Mercator map isn’t blue. They think we live on the ocean part
I’d be interested in seeing things like how many pinged places like Iraq. Quick ready/brain mix up could lead to pinning the wrong place.
I’m decent at map knowledge, but I sometimes get places mixed up. Like I probably could name most countries in central and south America, but would get like 6/10 right on placing central American countries.
Other things that I’d be interested in: Was the map presented as is? (Could explain why most of the pings are centrally located.) How was input collected? (Was it a mouse click or screen tap? Were people given multiple attempts to select before confirming?) Were other countries asked to be ID’ed? What’s the numbers if you throw out obviously wrong (ocean pings) ones? (I counted like 40 in the Atlantic, so like 2.5% were clicking the ocean.) Why is there a seemingly large cluster around Oklahoma and Greenland’s east coast AND directly off the coast?
Another good test would be to redo the same group but ask to point to Persia. And India, Iraq, Italy. Really see if people are just being sillay or not.
Yeah, I was just thinking that I’d probably put a pin in Iraq or Afghanistan, especially if it is just a blank map without topography. But the methodology of this thing would be very interesting to learn about, I think that the Oklahoma cluster could be a result of most of the people being asked were Oklahoma residents and just not hearing the question, but I would really love to learn why people chose certain places on this.
That coastline is Japan’s obv
Japan is literally named after China having a coastline right next to them…
Taiwan, famously on the other side of a country next to landlocked China
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Good things are exactly the same as bad things, you fools
Begging libs to actually put up an argument why they think both are equally bad
lib
cute
I see a state, I seek to dismantle, simple-as.
Some fall on their knees like sheep, not naming anyone…
You aren’t doing anything.
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Least sinophobic lib
First warning for racism
I see a state, I seek to dismantle, simple-as.
How is this remotely relevant to the actual post?
sheep
There is no more universal tell of someone’s political attitudes being fanciful and antisocial, however they otherwise try to dress it up.
So it’s just “all states are bad” wielded as a thought-terminating cliche?
Hey why are you all up at 3:25am?
…no reason, just… seems kinda like maybe you’re all possibly Chinese.
This seems really fair and impartial is all I’m saying.
If you aren’t a lib, why do you immediately jump to accusing any opposition of being paid foreign agents?
Lmao this kid never heard of time zones
Good morning from Sweden
I am a chinese communist
bedtimes are aUtHoRiTaRiAn, dumbass
Some of us work overnight, some of us aren’t in the US (fun fact, most of the countries in the world are neither the US nor China!), some of us are unemployed, some of us just have shitty sleep schedules. Funny how nuance disappears as soon as the nuanced take is something that disproves your beliefs.
There are several obvious contexts where you could say “fuck both” and in a few cases you would accidentally have a point, but this is not one of them. If China has an obligation to do anything at all, it must include continuing to develop its military to deter or defend itself from west-aligned aggression. If you do not acknowledge that, then your faux-nuance is a complete farce because it would be setting itself up to be crushed and for literally an 8-figure death toll as a result even if it doesn’t get turned long-term into a balkanized cluster of failed states and theo-fascist fiefdoms.
Silly tankie, haven’t you considered neither Washington nor Beijing? But 100% support for Washington in all their activities, that’s how I know I’m unbiased, unlike you tankies.
piefed
temu .ml
Our community predates the fediverse itself, but nice try I guess
