Of course as a True Patriot of China, I should want China to be at war with everyone. War with the US! War with India! War with Taiwan! War with Australia! The best thing for China is to have everyone shooting at China. Of course that's far better than trade and cooperative relations. Don't you know? Nothing is more in your interest than a bullet flying at you. Preferably over the smallest and most worthless piece of land ever. The honor of 1,000 of Chinese generations depends on controlling 1 sq km of toxic waste no one has ever heard of.
1 sq km (or thousands actually) of "toxic waste" that you can't get anyone to give up so you're going to ask your own country to give them all up? LOL True Patriots of China died fighting for every inch of Chinese territory while cowards like you want to give away territory larger than some small European countries for temporary improvement in relations and permanent loss of respect. All land is useful; the only toxic waste is people like you.
An example of being bogged down in spats are the Diaoyu Islands and Arunachal Pradesh claims. If we're being real here, these disputes are not going to be resolved any time soon as long as the US is number 1. Can China beat India/Japan in a 1 on 1? Yes. But if you bring the US into the mix? Then no.
Not really. At this point, I don't think the US can stop China at all but wants China to give some poor country a beat-down so it can try to pass UN sanctions on China. What do you think the US can do if China shish-kabobed India's entire east side tomorrow? Nothing except complain and sanction and hope that the world falls in line.
China stands far more to gain through economic cooperation with both than to press claims that are just not going to happen. China as it stands is currently still only the 2nd strongest power. Wouldn't it be smarter to focus all your energy on taking down the number 1 and keeping as many countries neutral as possible.
Economic cooperation is built on mutual benefits and money-making, which is why China, with nowhere near the political favor of the US in the past decades, still became the largest trading country. And the claims are happening; China's gaining territory in the SCS and maybe at the Indian border too.
You cannot make countries neutral by giving them your territory; you can only make then want more from you and act more boldly in their claims. This seems to be a theme that some (mostly tidalwave's fake accounts) don't understand. You think it's a matter of giving someone what they want so they stop bothering you, but it is actually like feeding pigeons, the more you give, the more they want, except these pigeons peck the flesh right off of you.
For this new Cold War, China cannot face another NATO as the USSR did. The West and US allies in the East are disunited and squabbling between each other (see South Korea/Japan spat). They are mostly economically dominated by China but don't think for a second they won't sacrifice that to join the US.
Both underestimating and overestimating your enemy are critical mistakes. They don't want to sacrifice at all; they want to ensure their own survival. If they are convinced that China could do them in all the same, they won't want to join that fight.
Overall, China has won nothing in diplomatic disputes except to confirm to the other side why China poses a threat.
Several islands with military bases on them in the SCS seem to disagree.
China has to keep US allies neutral so it has to lay low and maintain the status quo until it can topple the US.
Already addressed above in paragraph surrounding bold... and in yesterday's post.
China is growing at a rapid rate both militarily and economically. However, it is still weaker than the US in pretty much every regard right now. Why pick a fight now?
Eh... questionable. We thought the US had the best healthcare system; then COVID blew the lid off of that. We thought American human rights were excellent, then Floyd blew the lid off that. What other American strengths are fake?
Why play a game with a weak hand when a couple rounds later, you will have a much stronger hand? Mao's approach to border disputes was to simply push it off until China got stronger and could force the issue. China's greatest advantage is the fact that is has long term thinking and strategies.
Keep playing; when the hand is stronger, make even more powerful moves. China's hand right now is good enough to play, no need to sit out. Time's wasting.
Kissinger once said that US strategy is like Chess where they aim to get a quick checkmate through a power move to instantly end the game where as the Chinese strategy is like Weiqi. It slowly builds up assets through a long game until the lead is insurmountable. Currently picking fights seems like trying to get a quick checkmate and resolving the issues rather than quietly building strength until the enemies see the writing on the wall and back off. Win without fighting. It's a classic Chinese strategy that has been played without fail.
Nope. Currently, those fights are first of all, China defending its interests, NOT picking fights. Secondly, it is still building power like Weiqi and not like Kissenger's chess because when China wins these disputes, it gains bits territory/resources/bases while also showing other Asian countries the benefits of siding with China and the harms of siding with the US. There's no checkmate move in there against America at all; it's all slowly building.
