Chinese Military,Political and Social Superthread

[Good2Golf]

Unlikely.

I mean- I get that it was probably an accident (Occam’s razor), but China would not admit that the sun was rising, if Xi felt like sleeping that day…

True. Probably a wayward junior apparatchik Tweeting an apology that they thought would get them promoted for broadening China’s openness to work with (to dominate) the West…

 

[Weinie]

True. Probably a wayward junior apparatchik Tweeting an apology that they thought would get them promoted for broadening China’s openness to work with (to dominate) the West…

More likely irrefutable evidence that was presented to China, with threats to expose them.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

More likely irrefutable evidence that was presented to China, with threats to expose them.

That makes sense.

 

[dimsum]

More likely irrefutable evidence that was presented to China, with threats to expose them.

That’s my take. The “face” lost by apologizing is huge, and “face” is much more of an Asian thing than a western thing.

The article below is more of a person-to-person analogy for “saving face” but you can extrapolate to nation-states.

Saving Face

Writen by Asian Youth for Asian Youth. Saving Face is an article by Eva Zhong

www.dearasianyouth.org