@bajingan bro strategically speaking it can ride on the Russian while they increase their nuclear deterrent, the crucial year is 2025, before that the US would like to go to war while having an advantage what holding it back is the pandemic with the residual effect of domestic disturbance and economic depression. So the Chinese had the golden opportunity if they played their card right, this period (5 years) is the consolidation phase of their COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL POWER which was fastened due to geopolitical events. The urgency is there and the whole nation approach is being implemented, I think what Blinken had done in the Anchorage meeting had trigger something BIG that really anger Xi and the restrained had been taken off. I'm never seen China this angry and its not acquiescing like they traditional did before.
You are falling for western MSM propaganda BS if you think Chinese leaders like Xi would fundamentally change their national strategic posture because of something as ridiculously petty as being pissed off due to bad manners at a meeting.
Chinese strategic thinking regarding America and the west has seen a significant paradigm shift not because of Anchorage. Anchorage was just the first time the signs of that change become too obvious to ignore due to China publicly standing up against America.
The big paradigm shift occurred due to covid and Biden’s choice to double down on Trump’s Confrontational Cold War 2.0 path.
The pandemic exposed both the extend of American decline, and the cold blooded callousness of American elites and leaders to massive needless American civilian fatalities.
So while on the one hand, China now has increased confidence in victory in a conventional war against America; at the same time, its confidence in America not being prepared to sustain the catastrophic civilian casualties that will result from a nuclear exchange is shaken.
Couple that with Biden continuing with Trump’s policies proved to China that anti-China sentiment is mainstream and entrenched on both sides of the political spectrum in America with broad public support, so a new Cold War is now unavoidable.
This directly leads to China’s new policies to massively expanding its nuclear arsenals and moving away from minimal credible nuclear deterrence to full on MAD (which does not need to equate to nuclear parity btw); and also to push ahead with full economic decoupling (hence recent crackdown on Chinese tech companies listing in America).
The increasing Chinese military spending puts pressure on the US to also hike its own military spending while at the same time economic decoupling is massively inflating most prices in America so they get far less value for their money. The economic pain on America is also going to further inflame its internal frictions and conflicts between the 1% and the rest as well as add pressure to racial fault lines.
Basically China has concluded that the time for mutually beneficial, peaceful co-existence with the US is over, and is now preparing to win the inevitable new Cold War and maybe even some hot ones, with its expanded nuclear arsenal intending to ensure the Americans are not tempted to even toy with their nuclear card after getting spanked in a conventional war.
