I’m sure there are Russians that would rather be a part of the Western alliance but it’s also just an attempt to create a divide. It’s just a new spin because the last time it was Russian intelligence not the Russian elite that was saying the same thing. The Business Insider… straight up anti-China and known liar.
If there’s any ounce of intelligence in Russia, they should know that the current situation where Russia surviving Western sanctions was because the West was stupid enough to take on both Russia and China. If the West didn’t go after China, Russia would be in a much more difficult position now. It was these Russian elites that had their money seized that the West is threatening to now give to Ukraine. Somehow Russians think they would’ve escaped that same Western elitist snobbery that has thumbed their noses at Russia for over a hundred years even before communism?
The problem for the Chinese is something I’ve noted before is the cultural mentality to respect authority no matter what. When you believe in that, it’s an acknowledgment that someone will always be above you no matter what. Because of that, the Chinese want affirmation from whoever is the authority no matter what. What is affirmation? Wanting acceptance… wanting to be up there at the top with the elites.
And who is the established authority in the world right now? The US. Even though the US sees the Chinese under personal racist terms, the Chinese still seek to work with that authority because it’s better than confrontation to which Chinese want to avoid because they see that as generally leading to chaos and instability in society to which China has had a history of it leading to great turmoil. And why would the Chinese elites want this to be instilled in the Chinese people? Because they wanted no one to question their authority no matter what… Their mistake was thinking that they would always be the one in authority all the time but because no matter what also means no exceptions and that’s including if the authority is racist like the West. Who is going to question that the US is not the leading power in the world?
That is the mistake of Chinese culture in believing that there are no exceptions to who is considered an authority being anyone who is in power no matter how they got there. If the Chinese hold respect for the US, why would anyone choose the Chinese over the US when the Chinese don’t even choose themselves over the US? Even Beijing upholds that belief when they still want to be a part of the International Space Station despite having their own space station. Why? Because that’s an acknowledgement that China is a part of an already established great, by the West, club of elites that have achieved something that is considered grand in the world.
Why does Japan, South Korea, and many other Asian countries choose the US despite of how Western racism automatically looks down at them? In many Far East nations it’s the curse of Confucianism and the same respect for authority no matter what that they adopted.
Ironic because the Chinese wanted to avoid chaos and instability by demanding everyone obey no matter what has only reduced society into a form of selfishness where everyone has to look out for themselves or be left out. And that’s what people in power want to have everyone seek their personal affirmation as being most important. Why do you think Asians tend to be rabidly nationalistic?
The first step to knocking off the US and the West off their perch where they can look down and thumb their nose at everyone is for the Chinese themselves to stop looking at them as an authority in anything. One of the reasons why everyone looks at them in a higher position than China is because the Chinese look at a them in a higher position. That’s also why the US thinks they’re exceptional and indispensable because no matter how abusive and insulting they are to everyone else, people are still going to suck up to them because everyone else is.
