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[–] kitonthenet@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

different from a hundred years ago and compared to a world without any nuclear weapons

I don’t see why, China is constrained by the same consequences of nuclear war, and has the same responsibility to avoid it, e.g. by relaxing claims that it owns and controls the entire South China Sea. Especially because I don’t think you’d say the same would be justified if the US claimed the entire Gulf of Mexico, or bearing sea, for example