Officials must stay ‘keenly aware’ of challenges and prepare for ‘most extreme scenarios’, President Xi Jinping tells National Security Commission
Comments show China harbours no ‘illusions’ about fallout of US rivalry and has little hope of a lasting improvement in ties, analysts say
The New Cold War is here, folks.
:deeper-sadness:
Which is why the US want to provoke a hot war over Taipei strait instead of going with this Cold War. They know when China complete their modern military and the dual circulation economy, they’re done. It’s actually too late now but they still have small chance, but by 2027 or 2030, that’s window is close. Also the EU doesn’t really completely on board with this Cold War, this is Cold War is not about ideology, it’s about new power rising and the old one want to maintain status quo.
Yeah, and the lack of ideology is the most concerning feature. Even assuming a resounding and decisive Chinese victory in the new cold war, we're not getting global socialism. Global social democracy at best.
social democracy normally functions by offshoring exploitation, so I'm not sure how it could be global
Setting up a "Leaving Omelas" situation where FALGSC is accomplished through outrageous oppression of the people of the Pitcairn Islands
Man what I’d to to have some social democracy though
Climate change will force people to do some sort of revolution
Hopefully they'll mostly be communist ones
The US never goes to war with a real rival power. It is the most fundamental part of US military doctrine.