> Deviations in agreements is not a thing exclusive to China. Yes, but merely looking at the agreement that China broke recently with the invasion of Hong Kong

> Deviations in agreements is not a thing exclusive to China. Yes, but merely looking at the agreement that China broke recently with the invasion of Hong Kong, a reasonable person would assume that there's a much higher risk of them breaking more agreements than another arbitrary country that hasn't been invading other countries recently. Said another way, most people currently will trust France to honor a pact more than they trust Russia. ...not that that somehow makes violating the agreement with and invading Hong Kong somehow morally excusable. China seems pretty similar to Russia right now - with an authoritarian dictator planning to use military force to invade nearby countries. You can even draw parallels between their mindsets - Putin wants to recreate the glory of the Soviet Union and views the old USSR countries as "his", just as Xi Jinping wants to recreate the glory of old China and views Hong Kong and Taiwan as his. > So the question "will China renegade on its agreement or not?" is best answered with another question: "What is China's core interest? What purpose does an agreement serve to China?" I don't see what purpose this statement has. It's clearly in China's core interest to be aggressive and expansionist and invade nearby countries and steal IP from other countries, but none of that is right, and none of that changes the fact that they're an aggressive enemy who pose a threat to the whole Asia region at least, if not the whole world.