Stop it. At this time you have been proven wrong and wrong again you are grabbing irrelevant information and changing topics. I proved NATO partners do not control key resources or have bigger economic outputs. I listed resources generated, consumed, industrial output, industrial consumption, and scientific output. You gave the ICT market share. First off, that is still under "service demands are bullshit because they pay more for same shit without growing the economy". Second that is not representative of economy size, a shift of your goal post. Third, giving you benefit of doubt here, let's say ICT is representative of economy, what is there to stop China from updating windows or pirate them? Will the economy be in shambles if denied of the software? The answer is no. Next thing you know you will be saying US has more social media share therefore bigger economy.
Where have I been proven wrong again...? Outside of industrial output (and its proxies, raw material consumption / electricity consumption), there is
no metric in which China + partners is equal to NATO + partners.
And even in industrial output, China + partners are barely even with NATO + partners. You realize Japan and South Korea are in that group, yes? And that Russia isn't even in the top 10?
For scientific output, China's share among top quality papers is any where from 23% to 27%, depending on the source. But that is not comparable to the Western alliance. You can look at the raw data here:
. China is at the top, but the US is a close second, and if you combine the other countries of the Western alliance on the list, they remain
dominant.
So yes, China has overtaken the US, but just the US, not the Western alliance - beating the US is not enough and has never been enough.
One example of Kazakhstan not extridate dissidents does not invalidate its close relation with Russia. As a CSTO member they are in military alliance same as NATO equivalent. During the protest Russia deployed military units into the country. That is not something a random third party country allows. Using your logic we may as well remove Hungary out of NATO because they are not 100% on board with Ukraine stuff. Or removing every NATO member who did not donate to Ukraine.
From failure to read simple map size to shifting goal post this is getting embarrassing.
Kazakhstan is in military alliance with Russia? Then what military aid have they sent to Russia? What equipment have they donated, what support have they provided, what sanctions have they violated for the sake of Russia?
Hungary is sympathetic to Russia, sure, and one could argue its membership in the Western alliance is merely symbolic. But it's still doing the minimum warranted by its alliance treaty. By contrast, Kazakhstan hasn't done a thing for Russia.
Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, however, many in Russia have regarded Kazakhstan’s actions as being unworthy of an ally. It has adhered to Western sanctions against Russia, and in an appearance at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in June, in the presence of President Vladimir Putin, Tokayev stated that Kazakhstan would not be recognizing the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics.”
Kazakhstan’s defiant rhetoric has been backed up by action, with Kazakh authorities sending humanitarian aid to Ukraine and maintaining
with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Russian military propaganda symbols have been
in public places in Kazakhstan; the May 9 Victory Day parade was
; and official approval was even given for an
in Almaty. When Kazakh oil being shipped through Russia ran into unexpected difficulties, therefore, many wondered if this was Russia exacting its revenge.
Kazakhstan is acting more like a NATO partner than a Russian ally, and what's actually embarrassing is you refusing to acknowledge this simple fact - which is that China's partners are incredibly weak, while the Western alliance outside of the US, contrary to popular belief, is quite strong. Japan + South Korea + EU + Canada + Australia + UK are a formidable group in their own right, comparable in nearly every metric to the US. So it's like fighting two United States, which head to head, is impossible even for China.
