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That could all be true, but as we have seen, things can change very fast. The West has to now deal with the fact that they were complacent and passive towards

• trasz 5y ago
  That's true, and to be honest while I believe China will do the right thing, deep inside I am a little bit worried that it might not. Still, so far they are doing fine. This includes complying with sanctions, even in areas they don't technically have to - they are just doing it discreetly. Also I don't get your reasoning about pro-active measures: if anything, the West cooperating with China could convince them to ditch Russia. Antagonising them will have the opposite effect. Another thing I've just noticed: >If China didn't want to invade/assimilate/peacefully-reunite-with-a-gun-against-your-head Taiwan You hadn't included the most obvious option, which is a properly peaceful integration. You are up front assuming that China is yet another warmongering empire, like USA or Russia, as opposed to eg EU. This is despite existing integration efforts (Taiwan is quite close to China) and obvious economic realities - wars hurt economy; Russian economy was failing even before the war, and American economy is looking good on paper, but the quality of life is lower than it used to be half a century ago; China, on the other hand, is booming. To me, that's another example of US propaganda being widely accepted as truth.