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Is this a reference to all the toyotas that found themselves on the side of ISIS lol

they could make bank on a machine gun mount that 99% of their customers would never use

Well well well looks like I am a bit late to post this lol

It feels like a rare gem, like, they even updated the thread, then deleted it... I didn't know that could happen in the internet!

Your analogy doesn't work. The knife's primary purpose is for food.

The primary purpose for a drone that can drop things is to drop bombs.

It's more like making a sword and saying it's totally not designed for killing anyone, it's for cutting anything you want.

Yep, that kind of export dodging seems like the most likey answer, especially because the PRC has a huge lead in drone production, meaning it's probably cheaper and easier to do it this way. Still, I need to investigate more on my own.

The article says they did just that. Donations from Zionists through Facebook groups.

The orientalist bullshit you lapped up and doubled down on aside

the vast majority of people here are from the countries entirely responsible for Israel, the countries that could turn Israel off today. China could do more to pressure Israel, but saying China is the enemy of other Asian people who also rely on China for even more than Israel does is not only racist nonsense, it's literally the US position that they are pushing on Asian countries. what's next, since China is the enemy of the middle east, do you support ETIM terrorist attacks against Chinese people, obviously ETIM being a Muslim organization from Asia has every right to attack the enemies of the middle east, right? It would be their duty to destabilize and overthrow China if they really care about Gaza, or Muslims, or their allies in the middle east like ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Baloch Liberation Army?

Chinese foreign policy in the middle east, you mean being one of the main supporters of the entire Axis of Resistance, and literally every other anti-imperialist nation on the planet while we are at it? The key negotiator to the normalization of relations with Iran and the Saudis. The key mediator which brought 14 Palestinian factions together to be united as one for Palestinian Liberation?

you are going beyond critical support to just being unduly critical in a way that reads as if you've been just waiting to call out those pesky Chinese to the point that you fell for a conspiracy theory that China is providing Israel with drones to bomb Palestinians with, and then dismissed that you were wrong about it to double down on it. No one from the Axis of Resistance is calling out China, and all of them rely on China, but the internet Trot has deemed for the Middle East that China is the enemy.

China could stop selling teemu shirts and BYD cars to israel tomorrow and the genocide would continue. Little that China is providing Israel is essential to their existence, and Israel's real benefactors would get it for them if they needed it, in the same way they are getting the drones to Israel that China isn't sending them. They aren't providing weapons or even commercial drones, and in fact China gets more weapons tech from Israel which then ends up back into the hands of the Axis of Resistance once it is laundered through the Chinese military industrial complex. So is China supposed to shutter all it's private drone companies that make non weapons related drones, tell them to fire all their employees and go bankrupt, because they can't sell drones to anyone ever in case it ends up being misused?

The only thing China could do to truly impact Israel would be to sanction everyone who trades with Israel and essentially go against their entire geopolitical strategy of decades. To make such massive political change like in a country with over a billion people and a party of over 100 million members is no trivial thing. Not to mention it would destabilize the global economy, have massive negative material affects on the entire world working class, and probably cause the imperialists to go to war with China, or potentially provoke a nuclear response. How long from China shutting trade down with anyone who trades with Israel before Israel collapses? If it takes longer than a few days, the entire global economy is decimated, every Chinese business is decimated so all the people the Chinese state is responsible for are fucked, every country that relies on trade from China is fucked (that's most countries and the majority of people), food, medicine, energy and other necessities are no longer available for hundreds of millions if not billions of people, and they won't be the rich ones most impacted, it will be the workers you apparently speak for who are also fucked in this situation. So if Israel can hold out for a couple weeks, months, or even a year, then what?

There are so many unknown variables that would risk the lives of the Chinese people, the first priority of the Chinese nation who is not directly responsible for anything going on in Palestine, that to think it would be a simple change of policy is some laughable online gamer type analysis. Go back to your Civilization IV game and leave the decisions of who is the enemy to the people themselves.

Tbh, strongly feel stalin cavalier attitude towards ethnic movements played a strong role in that, but they quickly realized what it was (or, more cynically, that entity became pet imperialist project, most definitively with suez crisis)