Nobody is trying to provoke the Chinese. The Thai people used this vehicle, so they deserve it in the game. Adding a Thai vehicle outside of the tree they share with Japan is out of the question- When a country becomes a subtree, they stay there. Israeli vehicles haven’t gone anywhere else since they became a tree, same with Italian and Swedish vehicles. *For a better example, South Africa had a vehicle in Germany but then became a subtree of the UK and has since not had any vehicles go to any other tree. The Superhind could’ve easily gone to Russia as an upgraded Mi-24.
And why would they want the VT-4 to come to the Thai subtree just to provoke Chinese players? If they really wanted to provoke the Chinese community, then they’d go shit-talk you, not call for the Thai people to receive their MBT.
And the VT-4 is not an asset of the Chinese military- they’ve never used it! It’s not even in service! 3 countries and their militaries use it, the Chinese do not.
Nothing is complicated. Thailand is not “under” Japan. To say that Japan should not get this vehicle, is saying Thailand should not get this vehicle. They share a tree. Nothing is complicated here, a Thai vehicle should go to Thailand. Japan is a sideline topic.
The poll was on Tieba.
And it doesn’t need to be large scale to support accurate assumptions. Scientists use sample sizes of 1000 to come to conclusions for populations in the millions.