Can't agree with this at all. There is a reason the west is coalescing against china even at the expense of it's populace suffering.
Yes, they did make blunders, because they got complacent after the fall of the Soviet Union. And they didn't expect the PRC to catch them with their pants down do quickly.
There is a reason why Xi insists on "socialism with Chinese characteristics" so often.
I wouldn't separate the ideology from the mechanism through which this war is being fought even once. This time around, the west (the anglosphere primarily) didn't anticipate such a serious competition on the economic front. Look at the statements from the NATO, from the western leaders. They use words like autocratic, lack of freedom, and what not. But basically, all of their attacks are on the Chinese model of governance. Looks at the late phase of the cold war. Why were there so many socialist countries in the world? Why was India "partly" socialist? Why were there such strong socialist movements all across western Europe? And why did socialism across the world die out in the 90s? That's what the west fears the most. A solid economic powerhouse leading the global socialist movement, will definitely inspire socialist movements across their turfs as well. And we are already seeing the resurgence of early stage socialist movements in the west again. This is not a mere coincidence. I am not talking about the woke culture in the west. That was a late stage capitalist invention as a means to counter socialist movements. And that woke culture is failing miserably everywhere. What is taking it's place? Right wing madness AND actual socialist movements. All right wings politics are failing to produce any reasonable results. India, failing. Britain, failing, US, going into a spiral. Over the next few decades as more and more right wing policies fail to produce any results, the populace will naturally start tilting to socialism. And this is why, looking at this war in the light that you or the gentleman before you mentioned, is incredibly short sighted in my opinion. And I reiterate, the CPC has time and again insisted on the ideological aspect of China for the very same reason.
Multipolarity as being mentioned these days is mere hogwash. The west will never accept multipolarity. Capitalism won't accept an alternate reality where a better form of governance exists. It'll either try to crush the other pole, or wither away trying. can you even imagine how the western political hegemony would exist without a complete dominance on the world markets? The western way of life or the western way of governance will not survive in that world! Multipolarity can only exist when the west is completely reformed. And that will involve a complete ideological transformation of the west. Hence the ideological battle can never be dissociated from what is happening today.
On the ideological front, this would be called counter revolution. And that ability of the west would only be done away with, if there is an ideological transformation of the west.
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