I don't think westerners get how much "sitting about and doing nothing" is going well for China. It's like the geopolitical equivalent of "Never interrupt your opponent as they're making a mistake" for the past 30 years as capitalism keeps shooting itself in the foot
A lot of leftists criticize China for not exporting revolution and working with capitalists. As much as we might not like it, that policy is a key part of why China can seemingly "do nothing" and come out ahead. China's development would not be nearly as smooth or advanced if it was constantly getting embroiled in foreign conflicts.
A lot of leftists criticize China for not exporting revolution and working with capitalists.
Myself included circa like last year but when you put it like that, yeah. It's proven to be an extremely valuable strategy to sit and bide your time while the US commits farce after farce
In my mind, this is one of the lessons China learned from the fall of the USSR. The Soviet Union, for all the good it did, declared itself the champion of global revolution and made itself the enemy of all existing capitalist states. This led to it being completely encircled and besieged, contributing a lot to it's downfall.
China assumes a position of neutrality in most matters and trades with everyone, integrating itself into international economic and political structures in a way that makes aligning against it and isolating it incredibly painful for the capitalists.
I'd hardly even say that. The frogs are boiling themselves in the pot and yelling at each other over who's turning up the temperature. Meanwhile, China is in the next street over minding its own business building a birdhouse or something
I don't think westerners get how much "sitting about and doing nothing" is going well for China. It's like the geopolitical equivalent of "Never interrupt your opponent as they're making a mistake" for the past 30 years as capitalism keeps shooting itself in the foot
I can't believe the Chinese have read Sun Tzu, that's wild.
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A lot of leftists criticize China for not exporting revolution and working with capitalists. As much as we might not like it, that policy is a key part of why China can seemingly "do nothing" and come out ahead. China's development would not be nearly as smooth or advanced if it was constantly getting embroiled in foreign conflicts.
Myself included circa like last year but when you put it like that, yeah. It's proven to be an extremely valuable strategy to sit and bide your time while the US commits farce after farce
In my mind, this is one of the lessons China learned from the fall of the USSR. The Soviet Union, for all the good it did, declared itself the champion of global revolution and made itself the enemy of all existing capitalist states. This led to it being completely encircled and besieged, contributing a lot to it's downfall.
China assumes a position of neutrality in most matters and trades with everyone, integrating itself into international economic and political structures in a way that makes aligning against it and isolating it incredibly painful for the capitalists.
Can't build the productive forces with the push of a button :shrug-outta-hecks:
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China is the chef boiling the frogs in the pot
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I'd hardly even say that. The frogs are boiling themselves in the pot and yelling at each other over who's turning up the temperature. Meanwhile, China is in the next street over minding its own business building a birdhouse or something