• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      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.