I feel like their new anti-trade policies are aimed at creating a captive market for themselves rather than kneecapping China (since any scenario that China grows slower than the US is not realistic). All the US-allied block is like 55% of the global GDP. This is why it is important for China to stay engaged with the rest of the world (maybe except AU, JP, UK) so that the US can't form a cohesive block. But like-minded democracy approach is not sustainable too because the US itself is anti-trade and the global south has been outgrowing them for decades. The world will look a lot less Western in the second half of the century regardless of what they do.Bro it is
The thing is, the anti-trade moniker doesn't hurt their perception of the US as hegemon at all, the result they aspired was always a weaker peer competitor (sometimes RU, sometimes CN) through their action, they didn't give an F for their poor when they really were undisputed between 1992-2015, and certainly couldn't care less about the ramifications of their short-sighted FP and TP now, since all their vassals are still backing their delusions.
Speaking of vassals, i don't think anyone in Europe or Japan would really resist any major US FP move, we feel the pain already but the general people are just to limited in strategic depth and thinking to realise that the current path leads to europea and japans own century of humiliation. Kinda expected when the "threat" of the last 20 so years were afghan kids and the occasional boko haram enjoyer...
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I really admire the hours you stay awake, is this the CS spirit coming through?
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I sleep for 3 hours nowadays. I hope this period will be over in a month.
