Xi hasn't learned his lesson at all. You don't try to show restraint and hesitance. The west sees it as a weakness, not maturity.
Ask Russia, Muslim world how showing restraint and hesitance were treated by the west.
I don't know what Xi is trying to accomplish with these statements. Or either he's simply bluffing. Because at some point china will have to reunify Taiwan by force and the US will intervene.
US and china can never be friends in the coming decades. The reason is Taiwan.
Xi needs to accept the reality and stop with these appeasements. Putin is openly supplying weapons to anti-western forces across the world and that is already having an effect.
I don't even think Xi will arm Iran if Iran gets invaded by US.
I must admit, I do not understand you at all.
What this is, it is a game.
What if this game, reaches Armageddon every decade?
There would be no China. China would have finished itself off a long time ago.
We still here. We still playing.