In case of Tanzania, there is a reason why its military is nicknamed as "African PLA". The country's leadership is a contiuation since its independence, a socialist revolutionary state who China helped in building.
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Is Rwandan Defence Force the other African PLA?
One can say so, but nobody used that name for Rwanda yet. "East African PLA" was like a internet meme for quite some time.
Depends who you ask because there is the ethnic factor of Banyarwanda being persecuted in DRC which partially why Rwanda intervened aswell as the Hutus responsible for the Tutsi Genocide operating a militia group in the DRC that we have to consider. It's complicated as the DRC has been a constant mess ever since independence and it's pretty much African Yugoslavia.
Vietnam's newly appointed party chief set to visit China next week
Interesting Chinese video on the analysis of Vietnamese politics and connections to Cambodia. Cambodia is a SCO dialogue partner, Vietnam is not. I'm guessing China always veto Vietnam's applications.
Now Afghanistan mineral exports to China has finally started. Pakistan needs to step up or else lose this traffic to Iran.
China is involved in dam construction in Afghanistan.
They finally started construction on road going into the large copper mine. Still 2 years away from mining though.
This is my prediction. Gulf states will gradually go in favor to India over china as India will be their biggest market for them to export. Russian petro will outcompete Arabian in chinese Chinese due to closer distance while Arabian petro will outcompete Russian in Indian market vis versa.
In essence there is nothing wrong with the view of pan-asianism, in fact, the modern day Japan requires even greater correction to their values than ww2 Japan, because the latter were misguided in their belief that they could be entrusted hegemony, while the former is collaborating with the enemies of Asia to bring them to our doorstep.
The theoretical foundation of a "sphere" that encompasses all Asia and is headed by the most advanced, most worldly wise culture, helping the lesser countries to each according to their needs and abilities, is not evil but rather a noble goal. It is just that the Japanese culture does not possess the mandate of heaven to be the leader of such a sphere.
Asia is the world's most productive region. The country who can achieve uncontested hegemony over Asia also becomes the hegemon of the whole world, who can dictate trade flows outside Asia for the benefit of Asian development. 90%+ of world shipbuilding and semiconductor capacity depends on Asia alone.
With Korea and Japan as outsourced industrial, innovation and finance centers, the SEA peninsula acting as breadbasket, Indonesia and Philippines providing manual labor, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Pakistan projecting control over the subcontinent, Russia and Iran providing what little hydrocarbons still needed after EV conversion, and finally China to tie everything together under competent management and provide unending industrial goods, amenities, in exchange for migrants and resources. This new commonwealth would make Asia as or more dominant in the 20th century and onwards as Europe was in the 18th.
China should not be afraid to walk this path, even if parts of the well have been poisoned by Japan in the past. I am waiting for the paradigm shift to take place in China widely, when more people realize that we must form extensive guardian relations with smaller countries at any cost, especially those in Asia, which are China's cultural offspring and historical fiefs.
India's conflict with Pakistan makes this unlikely. While India can have good relations with Persians like Iran, it is unlikely this will happen with most Gulf Arabs aligned with Saudi Arabia.