The events this year have demonstrated US doesn't have allies. It has vassals. China doesn't have any.
Maintaining the "stability" (how many wars and genocides had happened under Pax Americana?) has caused enormous treasures and hollow out American industries. All signs point to Pax Americana has reached the imperial overreach stage.
Chinese leadership isn't gonna repeat US' mistakes.
It’s always easy to seat back and criticize what the ruling power does when you are not the one with the responsibility to do so. It’s like football spectators who often analyze and criticize any little mistake the players of the pitch make and some even act like they can even do better than the players. lol or opposition party who always criticises what the ruling party does and claim to have easy fix solutions to any issues the ruling party faces but when they get in power they find out that reality is different and they quickly get humble . lol.
so to claim Pax Americana has only been a bane for the world is just being biased or looking at things from a narrow perspective. I will say it has been fairly good in avoiding a much fractured world where many regional players would have engaged in even more bloody wars/conflict/arms race and nuclear proliferation without discussion from the US.
look no further than east Asia. Do you think things would have been peaceful without the US holding back South Korea and Japan from rearming and even developing nukes to counter balance North Korea and China herself ?
the thing is US PRESENCE is still beneficial to China even more so since China has no ambition or will to act like a regional or world policeman. So US filling that role helps in stabilizing the region.
secondly, North Korea is not a hostile power so it having nukes is not an existential threat, China isn't gonna spend blood and treasures to disarm North Korea
No, I disagree. N.Korea can be a threat to China. The fact that China was so against North Korea developing nukes to the point of agreeing and joining forces with the US to place sanctions on North Korea over nukes shows this clearly, since Chinese leaders recognize this point.
plus N.Korea herself doesn’t trust China at all and they remain wary of China. The simple fact that N.Korea publicly declared her will and ambitions in developing nukes to dissuade the US and South Korea /Japan (that’s what they say publicly but it’s also secondarily to put China in guard) shows this . It means N.Korea has ZERO TRUST IN CHINA HELPING OR PROTECTING THEM. Else they won’t be so keen on doing that despite Chinas firm objections and sanctions. So it’s a difficult situation for China. To be honest N Korea is a burden for China and they basically hold China hostage, China is powerless against N Korea. Very little China can do to influence or change Pyongyang. This is why I said Chinas policy on North Korea has been an abject failure to be honest , compared to the US on S Korea.
