xX0Xx wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
I believe we would win in a war of attrition, though.
Many other countries also have managed to join the United Nations despite very serious human rights abuses.
Yes I'm aware of that, like most recently Russia and Cuba. Which is why I believe the Geneva Convention is nothing but a big joke.
And I still say China could win against us.
you're confusing the UN with either NATO, or the EU. The later two have rules about who can join. Rules being essentially passing as a democratic republic that has some respect for human rights.
ANY one can join the UN as long as they function as a soveriegn country. Your ranch in Wyoming probably couldnt join the UN as a nation, but Stalinist Russia was not only a cofounder of the UN it was one of the biggies on the security
council.
The problem with China is that there are two of them. Nationalist China was also a founding member (along with the USSR, the USA, UK, and France- the big victors of WWII). But the communist revolutionaries overthrew them and drove the Nationalist government to Taiwan in 1949. The US tried to maintain the fiction that Taiwan was the real China, but finnally had to bow to reality that Taiwan is now the tail, and that the Communist mainland regime is the dog. So it an issue national soveriegnty, and not human rights, that held up the Mainland regime's entry into the UN.