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China has the long term discipline that the US (and most Western countries) lack. A key example that can help with this kind of alliance: their 'silk road' for

• travmatt 8y ago
  One of the perks of having an authoritarian system that takes unilateral action.
• grouseway 8y ago
  The US plays geopolitics very well regardless of who is in office. It's one of the reasons why you guys are the dominant force in the world. If anything, China is emulating the US. To your example, seems like the real goal of the silk road is suckering nations into huge debts that they cannot hope to repay with massive concessions in case of default. Creation of client states is a key to American domination and the Chinese will emulate it with even more zeal.
  • kevin_b_er 8y ago
    That's in part due to the civil service, which could continue to engage in skillful geopolitics irrespective of current office-holders, because of the workhorse of skilled employees with loyalty to country rather than an administration. That has changed. Now the civil service is the "deep state" which must be eliminated and/or controlled. Except to see a reduction in US geopolitical skill due to this political attack upon the civil service.