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The world is not as black-and-white as you're making it out to be, not all treaties are created equal. All major powers have a mixed history when it comes to ho

The world is not as black-and-white as you're making it out to be, not all treaties are created equal. All major powers have a mixed history when it comes to honoring their commitments, but that doesn't mean treaties are worthless.

loceng 6y ago
When it comes to security you best learn from an actor's history and consider all actions, weighted properly, and not simply get stuck in indecision of what if's. In the U.S. the current leaders and those making decisions rotate, adjust over time, so there's less certainty and a foreign nation will have to do their best to know and read the political climate. With China's CCP there isn't so much change and so their actions are much more determinant of their future actions. Of course no situation is black-and-white, however all things considered what I described is their strategy, that is my conclusion for their strategy; I hope you see the pattern of Putin's Russia every 5 years or so killing off the main opposition leader, like recently happened - Alexei Navalny in a coma currently. Do we ignore that and believe that we'll trust Putin will change if he claims he will? He'd never agree to a treaty though that hurts his position of power/control though, just like this "no space weapons" doesn't hurt Putin's or CCP's position of power - because they don't wield that power or capability, and so of course they want a treaty against it. Let's hope the free, democratic world rallies in creating multi-lateral trade agreements to syphon off buying from CCP controlled China and this is enough wake them up economically, unfortunately it's possible that it will only to cause the CCP to be able to tighten their grip on the Chinese people (control, censorship, security systems of the hierarchal tyranny) - creating more internal pressure that CCP can continue to make the narrative that it's the U.S. and other democratic nations that are the cause, rallying hate and anger which then they will direct where they see fit.

loceng 6y ago

When it comes to security you best learn from an actor's history and consider all actions, weighted properly, and not simply get stuck in indecision of what if's. In the U.S. the current leaders and those making decisions rotate, adjust over time, so there's less certainty and a foreign nation will have to do their best to know and read the political climate. With China's CCP there isn't so much change and so their actions are much more determinant of their future actions. Of course no situation is black-and-white, however all things considered what I described is their strategy, that is my conclusion for their strategy; I hope you see the pattern of Putin's Russia every 5 years or so killing off the main opposition leader, like recently happened - Alexei Navalny in a coma currently. Do we ignore that and believe that we'll trust Putin will change if he claims he will? He'd never agree to a treaty though that hurts his position of power/control though, just like this "no space weapons" doesn't hurt Putin's or CCP's position of power - because they don't wield that power or capability, and so of course they want a treaty against it. Let's hope the free, democratic world rallies in creating multi-lateral trade agreements to syphon off buying from CCP controlled China and this is enough wake them up economically, unfortunately it's possible that it will only to cause the CCP to be able to tighten their grip on the Chinese people (control, censorship, security systems of the hierarchal tyranny) - creating more internal pressure that CCP can continue to make the narrative that it's the U.S. and other democratic nations that are the cause, rallying hate and anger which then they will direct where they see fit.