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Were the countries around China coerced to be friendly with America somehow? I’m pretty sure the CIA do a lot of evil shit to maintain American power around the

Were the countries around China coerced to be friendly with America somehow? I’m pretty sure the CIA do a lot of evil shit to maintain American power around the world but I’m really not sure they are this omnipotent. I think these countries are simply more scared of China than they are the US, until that changes China will be surrounded by US friendly countries.

treaxc 4y ago
The point that roenxi made is that color revolutions in Russia and Kazakhstan would encircle China from the West and North in addition to the existing U.S. allies Japan and South Korea from the Southwest. It isn't a moral statement, just one realistic scenario that China is afraid of.
- rhaway84773 4y ago
  You’ve pretty much eliminated all agency that exists in those countries and their people. This is the only way to support Russia and China today. By using a “Great Power” theory which pretends smaller countries have no agency and their people have no value, other than how they affect the interactions of those larger countries. The U.S. is also surrounded by a bunch of countries. Somehow those countries aren’t clamoring to join the Warsaw Pact or kowtow to China.
  - 8note 4y ago
    There's no power close to the US that could counterbalance it. If there was an equivalent south American power, you might see Mexico and central American countries looking to escape American influence, but no such power exists
    - Gibbon1 4y ago
      The history of Eurasian Powers in the New World is highly negative and the US keeps those guys away.
8note 4y ago
Yes. Japan lost WW2, and was forced into said agreement, and then the US went to war in Korea. That doesn't mean that dealing with the US isn't better than dealing with China, of course, but the US military bases are there to ensure that the empire stays intact, both from external attacks and internal division

treaxc 4y ago

The point that roenxi made is that color revolutions in Russia and Kazakhstan would encircle China from the West and North in addition to the existing U.S. allies Japan and South Korea from the Southwest. It isn't a moral statement, just one realistic scenario that China is afraid of.

rhaway84773 4y ago
You’ve pretty much eliminated all agency that exists in those countries and their people. This is the only way to support Russia and China today. By using a “Great Power” theory which pretends smaller countries have no agency and their people have no value, other than how they affect the interactions of those larger countries. The U.S. is also surrounded by a bunch of countries. Somehow those countries aren’t clamoring to join the Warsaw Pact or kowtow to China.
- 8note 4y ago
  There's no power close to the US that could counterbalance it. If there was an equivalent south American power, you might see Mexico and central American countries looking to escape American influence, but no such power exists
  - Gibbon1 4y ago
    The history of Eurasian Powers in the New World is highly negative and the US keeps those guys away.

8note 4y ago

Yes. Japan lost WW2, and was forced into said agreement, and then the US went to war in Korea. That doesn't mean that dealing with the US isn't better than dealing with China, of course, but the US military bases are there to ensure that the empire stays intact, both from external attacks and internal division