DBWI: Should the People's Republic of China get it's port?

Your thoughts on the international issue of the year: should the world's largest and most populated landlocked state finally get it's own port on the Pacific?
 
This is not a DBWI. It is an RP thread. Please title these threads "RP:" and not "DBWI:" in the future.
 
He is right though

OOC: RP, DBWI it's almost the same friggin' thing. Sometimes it's almost impossible to tell what a thread is. And use OOCs if you're not talking about the OP.

IC: no a barbarian communist state which starves its own people to death should not get a port to spread its terror to sea. They're not even communist, they're more of a Maoist technocratic oligarchy with zero input from about, say, 90% of the entire population. If you though Japan and it's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity sphere were bad, the PRC is worse. They have the worst human right's record in Asia, even worse than Japan's I dare say. Let's hope Japan ignores international pressures.

EDIT: OOC: shouldn't this be in post-1900?
 
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EDIT: OOC: shouldn't this be in post-1900?

OOC: I was assuming that the POD took place in the Victorian period

RP: I agree with O.W, China should under no circumstances be allowed its own port- just look at what happened when Russia gained access to the Black Sea back in '85. At least then there's a case for saying the Russians at least made the position of the Pontic Greeks marginally better than it had been under Ottoman rule: but I don't think anyone can agree that even the Japanese subjects would be better off as part of the People's Republic, especially now Japan has started to liberalise.
 

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This is not a DBWI. It is an RP thread. Please title these threads "RP:" and not "DBWI:" in the future.

It is not an RP thread either. You may have noticed that nobody is playing a role.

There's no proper abbreviation for these "arguing from the perspective of an ATL" threads. "ATLWI" is kind of long, but I can't think of anything shorter.

Anyway, quit it with the form letters.
 
I don't like the PRC's human rights violations, but Japan isn't much better despite their faux-liberalization. So the human rights argument is a moot point as far as I'm concerned. Although perhaps if the PRC had a port, it would increase tensions between them and both sides would start having to play the "hearts and minds" game with the populace. That's the only way I see human rights improving any in that portion of the world.
 

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I don't like the PRC's human rights violations, but Japan isn't much better despite their faux-liberalization. So the human rights argument is a moot point as far as I'm concerned. Although perhaps if the PRC had a port, it would increase tensions between them and both sides would start having to play the "hearts and minds" game with the populace. That's the only way I see human rights improving any in that portion of the world.
Well they'd be playing a different hearts and minds game from what they play now if some of the rumors are correct.
Besides Isn't Portugal trying to Sell Macau back to China? Or More likely to the Highest bidder, considering what they did with Angola.
 
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