Current Affairs China and its treatment of minorities

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While I absolutely am against all of the authoritarian, and horrifically inhumane practices the Chinese government engage in (like super draconian lockdown measures, control of information, concentration camps for Muslims etc) I do think that the west are pretty hypocritical when it comes to these subjects. We invaded Iraq and committed war crimes in the Middle East, the US under Trump was putting Mexican children in cages, the UK has a Home Secretary whose dream is to see refugees on flights to Rwanda and frequently dehumanises them, and the UK is doing it’s best to ban freedom of protest.

I think there are definite parallels to draw between the UK and US’s actions and China’s, but as the news we consume is generally under a heavily westernised lens, we don’t look internally as much. For example, we claim China is harvesting data via their tech companies - but the UK and US have literally been doing that for years.
 
There is talk that China is going to put pressure on the remaining countries which still have formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan.

What would the outcome be if a large swathe of countries, for example the EU, UK and US all declared they were starting formal diplomatic relationships with Taiwan.

Obviously China would object and try to stop it happening, but in real terms, what could China do about it?
 
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