When did China claim leadership of the Global South? Show me an article from People’s Daily
The only ones are the US and Jai Hind.
Isn't that part of the point behind things like the BRICS and BRI?. A win-win relationship for all the involved in multiple areas, not depedent on the anglos racial and geopolitical games and interests?.
I wouldn't call Russia a basket case, but your point is well taken. China's first priority is growing its economy and technological capabilities. There's no sugar daddy China can go to if things go sideways.
Yeah, but like I mentioned before, at some point you are going to have to get your hands dirty. And if you don't do it voluntarily, the west will force you to and and on their terms, most likely.
We know the west isn't going to really wait for China to reach a point where the anglos can't mount a challenge at all in which at least they can dictate some if not most of the rules of engagement, so to speak.
Using Russia as an example, I'm sure they would have been more than happy not having to go to war in Ukraine and they even tried to disengage early on the war, but the "wait things out" aproach allowed the west to dictate the rules of the situation initially.
The West is responsible for a large part of it but not all of it. If the West were entirely responsible, CPEC would have been a stunning success. The sad fact is that "people are poor because they want to be" has a degree of truth.
While it might hold true in one aspect, it is never, ever the main general reason. It is in the west main interests for extractivist and geopolitical purposes to keep the global south impoverished and exploited enough that they are dependant on their ties to them but not enough were unrest might get out of hand or become a burden.
What do you think would happen if Mexico suddenly decided to eschew the whole of NAFTA and to ask China or Russia to build a base in Tijuana?. How long would the Mexican government last?.
We all know the long and studied history of the US in Latin America and the Europeans in Africa and Asia, and how they kept and keep mucking things up.
Maybe they would preserve some limited areas where people can visit Palestinian cultural artifacts. Build some museums, maybe make a national holiday for remembering the bad things that then "old generation" did. Then new generation would say "why blame US for what our grandparents did" etc, basically the US defence for what they did to native Americans and black Americans.
Thats the thing, it shouldn't be allowed to reach that point, not only out of emotional and moral point of veiw, but also because it has long term cultural and political ramifications. Is in no-one self interests to allow an outpost of irrational and delusional white supremacism to stand.
I mean, Israel is one of the backers of the whole East Turkestan shenanigans, for starters.
See, smart countries know how to be nimble and flexible. In that case, as long as Israel knows how to play the game and read the geopolitical situation correctly, nothing serious will happen to it
Is it smart though?. Lets not forget this started out Netanyahu's wish to avoid jail, not some national interests struggle.
Elite capture in the nonwest is real. When they would sell even their mothers for the chance to shop at Burberry in London, what do you expect them to value dignity at? 0. How do we know this? Because many of these people are Chinese too. It is only because of China's unique political structure that these types are kept away from power.
Thats why I argue that non-interventionism can only get you so far and long term is counter productive to Chinese interests regardless of ones perceptions of the region or the global south as a whole.
Japan did it in the Plaza accords.
Japan has been a Western vassal since day one after the lost the war. Their entire country is set up like that, so I don't think it is a fair inclusion from my personal opinion.
Thats one of the West biggest successes, yes. The late soviet leadership were also big on non-interventionism.
These are countries much stronger than Iran and Lebanon who were in 0 real danger yet they bent the knee for Pizza Hut and Hollywood, so what do you think Iran and Lebanon are gonna do?
Fair enough.
Maybe the idea is a sort of pivot where after NATO is sufficiently depleted in Ukraine, China can circle back to the middle east, now with a stronger Russia tying down NATO and Syria being a Russian playground. Plus then, there will be a lot of people clamoring for an UN style intervention on Israel, and US position may be too weak to resist it.
I wish, but at this point I'm afraid people will just move on with ther life and shrug once the deed is done.
