BS! I'm in SEA. I know what happened to the communist struggles here. Chinese sponsorship for communist movements in SEA was effectively dead by the late 1970s. It decisively ended with the Sino-Vietnam War of 1979. And you said Vietnam "requested" Deng to stop it in 1988? LoL! Vietnam!? That very nation who is in a state of war with China from 1979 to 1991. Of course they would accuse China of spreading their "toxic Maoism" around. And you would trust their accusations against China during those times? Do you even know what the hell you're writing?
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LoL! You idiot! That economic opening up steered China away from the fate of the Soviet Union. All that poison pill from the West that you've talked about slipping into China? Yeah, that was dealt with decisively in 1989. Without that economic opening up, you wouldn't have the great China of today that you were so eager on crap on for not starting WW3 to soothe your militant ego.
China was fortunate it did not have its own Gorbachev.
LOL have you been to China? The amount of shitlibs in plain sight is staggering.
You talk about China needing to "win friends" from the West. And then you argue against yourself that those "friends" are not loyal to China. You've already answered why China shouldn't go out there and become big brother for everybody. Because most countries, even communists ones like Vietnam have fickle loyalties.
China's management of "friends" today is far more sustainable than that traditional Cold War style bloc hegemony. That method had failed the Soviet Union because the Western economic hegemony was too powerful for it to confront. China learnt that lesson and is confronting the West today in a way that truly hurts them. By denying them absolutely economic hegemony. You have failed to learn from history yet again.
I said that China should support proxies, pull their own coups, do their own brand of NED influence operations to ensure a cooperative government is in power. You can bet your ass that the US is willing to do these things to replace any pro-China governments.
China had a larger economy than the
8 Nations Alliance Brits during the
Boxer Rebellion Opium Wars, a larger economy than Japan up until 1937. Didn't help China win those wars now did it?