Japan, Germany, France, etc etc can’t walk away from China. That’s true. But they will also make it hard for China to walk away from them. The plan is to pressure China in multifaceted approach involving politics, military, and economics. It forces China give up more concessions out of fear of isolation.
That is the problem with the Liberal media, they are not truthful. They always have an hidden agenda, and want people to discuss topics along the lines of the talking points they provided. Their attempts to control the conversation, are just attempts to control the situation.
It kind of fails with China, for these reasons I believe.
1) That they want to force China into more concessions? What is the big deal with that? When China joined the WTO, China made all the concessions and America made none. How did that work out, it was satisfactory for the Chinese to say the least. China is a grown up country who is able to make decisions and negotiate with others to arrive at those decisions. The point is this - this is business as usual as this is normally called diplomacy.
The Liberal media, for whatever reasons, push the line that diplomacy when done by the west will be a complete and thorough win for the west against China.
Why they think western diplomacy will beat China bad, they never elaborate. They do not even mention which country invented diplomacy! Yes, that's right, China invented diplomacy.
2) They cannot coerce somebody bigger than yourself. Australia trade troubles with China shows that point, which no one should have expected anything different. The point is there is no leverage. China's economy is growing better too. Since there is no leverage, all they have is point #1) which is diplomacy which according to the Liberal media will easily overwhelm China.
3) A big and unwieldy group, with internal competing interests, is easy to apply divide and conquer strategies, in fact with the RCEP and CAI, it was too easy. Seems like the obvious point here is that this coalition does not exist, or the actual strength of such a coalition is grossly overestimated. Let's face it, there is a bigger coalition participating in the BRI, that there is in joining the Americans in their anti-China activities. But we do not read that much about the BRI from the Liberal media. Where they are weak, they do not want to talk about it.
All Xi should say is bring it on. The quicker that China can give the anti-China forces more defeats, the better it is, especially at this time of the pandemic we can see who is stronger. When the pandemic is over, things could change, who knows. Right now, when they are on the run, you chase.
