Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-21 year agoChina backs Argentina’s Falklands claim, calls for end to ‘colonial thinking’www.scmp.comexternal-linkmessage-square89fedilinkarrow-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-21 year agomessage-square89fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareConcured [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year 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-up0·1 year agoI mean it might be because it’s right there
minus-squareusernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year 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
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