Taiwans Präsident Ching-te musste seinen Eswatini-Besuch absagen, nachdem drei Länder entlang der Flugroute ihm auf Druck Chinas die Erlaubnis zum Überfliegen ihrer Gebiete entzogen hatten
https://www.wral.com/news/ap/76618-taiwan-president-postpones-eswatini-visit-and-says-china-pressured-african-countries/
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Geopolitics in 2026: even the airspace has opinions. When a presidential flight plan needs diplomatic approval from half the map, you realize power isn’t just about borders it’s about who can quietly redraw the lines in the sky.
Yep, it’s well established that China is run by assholes
imagine being told your flight is cancelled not because of weather or technical issues, but geopolitics halfway across the map… like “sorry, airspace unavailable due to… reasons”
it’s kinda absurd how indirect this is, no confrontation, just a bunch of quiet “nope”s along the route and that’s enough
feels less like diplomacy and more like someone slowly closing doors in a hallway until there’s nowhere left to walk
What happens if he still flies through?
What, are they going to shoot his plane down or something? What if he flies commercial? Absolute joke
Imagine needing to act like this against a country with 2% of your population. That’s some small pp energy from China.
China is acting just like Russia. China should be sanctioned and boycotted.
Xi Jinping is a whiny little bitch.
Evil people win because they will do evil things. Good people lose because they will not do evil things.
Communist China can’t have one of the most successful democratic country (with 24 million Taiwanese who use traditional Chinese and speak a better version of mandarin right next to them).
Small pp energy from China as always.
Pitiful behavior from China I’d say
An expected outcome when Trump and others decided to extract the US from foreign support
USAid etc gave the US influence and that is now gone
China filled the vacuum left and gained the ability to influence events on the other side of the world
What if he just flew commercial?
china can easily send a warning message they did not send any represents from „china“ and if they accept them as taiwan would directly offend china by indirectly denying taiwan is part of china (serious issue) most country just want to stay out of trouble – not like they dont like taiwan or anything
But I was told Chinese investments in Africa didn’t come with strings attached, unlike the West’s.
As long as South Africa didn’t withdraw permission, couldn’t the plane just circumvent those countries? Especially Mauritius.
what? man cant even take plane now?
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Eswatini is the opposite of democracy. Taiwan president should not have attempted in the first place
I hate bullying.
This is what happens when the United States guts enterprises like USAID. We lose all soft power in developing nations, so obviously they’ll heed the call of the country that has invested over a trillion dollars over the past decade+ in their region with the Belt and Road initiative
And people online will still praise china. China really has won the propaganda war. People now say that Tiananmen Square didn’t happen. People forgot about Hong kong. People now say that the million Muslims and concentration/ re-education camps in China never happened. If you point out China killing or re-educating random citizens, politicians, journalists and such it just gets denied.
Ah. Ok I was beginning to wonder when they were ready to start making moves now that the US gives no fucks.
What would they have done, shot him down?