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.
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.