I'm telling you guys man, this is just the beginning. The West will use every tool in its arsenal to attack China. Intellectual, moral, economic, military, soft power, hard power, you name it. It will not stop until China is Iraq/North Korea and the entire world is convinced Chinese people have horns sprouting out of their heads. This if it does not militarily attack China. You can reply to me and make arguments against my points and circle jerk amongst yourselves but you can't stop this oncoming train. And it'll hurt.
I plead with China, I beg China, to improve relations with the West before it is too late. China doesn't have to concede or give up a single thing. Simply not doing any new provocative actions beyond what it has already done would go a great deal. Simply maintaining and upholding its current positions and stances would improve relations with the West tremendously over the long run.
Disagree because the defining moments in our times will not just be America versus China.
The rise of the global south will alter the power relationships in the world.
The coming next decades will not be a repeat of the Warsaw Pact staring at NATO with different actors.
Europe will wholeheartedly support the BRI, because that develops the global south. If the global south gets richer, they will not be flooding into Europe as migrants, economic or otherwise.
As for China versus America. In 10 to 15 years time, the Chinese economy will be double the size of the United States economy.
That means whatever corporation that is inside China, will see their China operations double too. Who will desert that willingly?
Absolutely no one. Not even American corporations.
The United States strategy towards China at the moment is just nothing, but gigantic bluff.