You joke but Hexbear will believe it. I mean, China for the longest time has an isolationist foreign policy. What China only cares about with other countries is trade, and if China does not have a trade deficit. They have imposed a tributary system in the past, and in the present they are emulating it. China in Mandarin is “Middle Kingdom” after all. They believe they are the centre of trade, culture and civilisation, which is the case before the rise of the West. The West only rose because of the desperate end goal to reach to China and the Far East.
Borderline racist rambling tbh, China isn’t doing anything because they’re not obligated to do anything and they’re not rabid ideologues like the Soviets were.
Also they’re just capitalists larping as socialists so the end question is always what’s in it for them. They’ll keep happily selling Iran weapons for oil and cash, same as ever. If an actual invasion happens you might see them support a proxy war but I wouldn’t count on seeing the People’s Liberation Army fighting Yankee pig dogs any time soon.
How is it racist? China throughout its history doesn’t really go on expansionism to the extent that Europe and the West does. China is huge and resource rich, and throughout its history up to the present, other countries have been dying to either trade with them or conquer them. That is why China isn’t obligated to do anything because they got 90% of everything they need. You are looking at China’s foreign policy through Western lens, which is mired with aggressive expansionism and “what’s in it for me” mindset.
Modern China is doing what its past ancestors have done with other countries, influence them through soft, cultural power. US could have remained doing the same; being as bountiful and big as China. But no, Americans have to keep flexing their insecurities despite having been spoiled for the last 70 years. China is also more far-sighted and think in decades, which Trump himself admitted.
Well, India and SE Asia were also pretty high up on the trade route wishlist. Europe basically just wanted certain trade goods they didn’t have, and for the first time anywhere had the technology to scalably cross the high seas to get them.
They have imposed a tributary system in the past, and in the present they are emulating it.
In a lot of ways, China is what would have happened if Rome had successfully been put back together.
Hexbear: It’s actually helping a lot with Chinese characteristics.
You joke but Hexbear will believe it. I mean, China for the longest time has an isolationist foreign policy. What China only cares about with other countries is trade, and if China does not have a trade deficit. They have imposed a tributary system in the past, and in the present they are emulating it. China in Mandarin is “Middle Kingdom” after all. They believe they are the centre of trade, culture and civilisation, which is the case before the rise of the West. The West only rose because of the desperate end goal to reach to China and the Far East.
Borderline racist rambling tbh, China isn’t doing anything because they’re not obligated to do anything and they’re not rabid ideologues like the Soviets were.
Also they’re just capitalists larping as socialists so the end question is always what’s in it for them. They’ll keep happily selling Iran weapons for oil and cash, same as ever. If an actual invasion happens you might see them support a proxy war but I wouldn’t count on seeing the People’s Liberation Army fighting Yankee pig dogs any time soon.
How is it racist? China throughout its history doesn’t really go on expansionism to the extent that Europe and the West does. China is huge and resource rich, and throughout its history up to the present, other countries have been dying to either trade with them or conquer them. That is why China isn’t obligated to do anything because they got 90% of everything they need. You are looking at China’s foreign policy through Western lens, which is mired with aggressive expansionism and “what’s in it for me” mindset.
Modern China is doing what its past ancestors have done with other countries, influence them through soft, cultural power. US could have remained doing the same; being as bountiful and big as China. But no, Americans have to keep flexing their insecurities despite having been spoiled for the last 70 years. China is also more far-sighted and think in decades, which Trump himself admitted.
Well, India and SE Asia were also pretty high up on the trade route wishlist. Europe basically just wanted certain trade goods they didn’t have, and for the first time anywhere had the technology to scalably cross the high seas to get them.
In a lot of ways, China is what would have happened if Rome had successfully been put back together.
The EU is arguably kinda like the Rome. The Brussels effect means following EU rules to keep trading with them or lose access to the market.