They lost access to a naval host in the Mediterranean sea, a land corridor through Iraq and Syria, trade route protection through the Suez canal and the Red Sea, and whoever ends up ruling Syria will be a US puppet that will block Chinese investment in the country. That one base could have cost the US billions of dollars and created a balance of power in the region.
The Assad govt gave China bases in the Med?
The fact is this guy did nothing aside from retain his own basic rule, because he's politically paralysed due to his ethnicity/faith. So naturally the Syrian people would rather have someone extreme but at least capable of giving a promise, no matter how far fetched, of reuniting the country.
They could have and should have overthrown him if that story was even true, which I do not believe for a millisecond. What these two have lost here is incalculable.
I was talking about China's own interests rather than saving Assad. Assad is safe and sound. He will live a long and happy life away from all of this chaos. Regarding Taiwan, I used to think China could wait the US out, but at this point I have absolutely zero faith that China will ever recover Taiwan.
Taiwan is already China's, it's US that's disputing and it and it's US that will have to invade in order to change the status quo.
They don't do anything about anything at all,
Okay so since the cold war started, life in China has remained essentially unaffected by western action. If anything, when the war started, the PRC has a much weaker position, with active separatists in HK and Xinjiang. Those are now gone, while the CN economy remains booming like it was in 2014.
Meanwhile,since the start of the cold war, the western empire has received pressure to collapse multiple "democracies" (Romania, France, Hungary, SK). It has lost all growth in EU and Asia, with only US retaining a small amount of growth at the cost of consumer inflation. It has failed to convincingly surpass China's ally Russia in weapons output and sanctions have prevented them from developing an independent world class drone/robots sector.
So it is clear in plain sight which side is doing nothing, or at least not doing anything but flailing around in self defense: the west.
even when it's simple cheap things. Even Pakistan still double deals on them with the US, allowing terrorists to blow up Chinese infrastructure inside Pakistan and China sells their J-10CEs to them.
If you had to name all the nations that blow up western stuff while still receiving western support, do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
Myanmar is still getting obliterated by US backed terrorists right on China's borders.
US is not in Myanmar, it's all China's playground. So you're delusional and seeing US where they aren't lol
It's like thinking China is in Mexico creating cartels lmao you're ascribing mythical powers to an adversary for no reason, this reeks of either propaganda or an empty skull.
The Philippines, SK, Japan, all still host the US and are completely owned and operated by the US and China still does nothing about it.
US started out with those colonies, the Qing gave them up 100s of years ago, before the PRC was established.
China will need a vast military campaign to take back those colonies. Preceding such a campaign, a country should seek to weaken the enemy maximally, such as depleting his weapon stocks, using sanctions to destroy his industries, and destabilising his rule.
