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China ascend to Power is hardly fiat accompli, and on top of it their food insecurity and disputes with 17 neighbors is only going to compel them to focus inwar
by sremani 5y ago
China ascend to Power is hardly fiat accompli, and on top of it their food insecurity and disputes with 17 neighbors is only going to compel them to focus inward.
Yes, all those Africa and BRI adventures are already turning bitter for host nations.
US and USSR won the WW2 - you get power by winning wars and winning decisively. If China wrests Taiwan, we can then seriously talk about their contention until then its just talk.
- pphysch 5y agoChina went from a colonial backwater to the #1 real economy in the world, without endless foreign wars. Recent history irrefutably disproves your "might is right" framework.
- petre 5y agoIt had a bit of help with US being its #1 market and aiding technology transfer by moving all production offshore.
- Apocryphon 5y agoChina was only a colonial backwater during the time centered around the "century of humiliation." It was an unchallenged sprawling empire for millennia. This is just reversion to the mean.
- pphysch 5y agoIt is fundamentally an issue of separatism, and associated violent extremism/terrorism. The idea that it is some kind of "race war" is a pure fantasy of race realist Westerners.
- sremani 5y agoThere is a reason why USD is the world reserve currency. How much trade is done using your '#1 real economy currency'. Export-Oriented economies have a lot of problems and that will be evident as the Global growth is coming to stagnation this decade. Power is power - that is why every country maintains a military, even the small ones. The recent history is 'stabler' than past because of Bretonwoods and various maritime security guarantees. That did not happen in vacuum and China is not the architect of the system.