Despite my best efforts, I can’t stop coming across horrific stories and images from Palestine. I won’t repeat them here because you all know. At the same time I’ve heard so much inspirational stuff about how the USSR, despite being in a constant fight for their existence, still managed to help the global South in various ways, like aiding Cuba for example.
I understand that China is trying not to repeat the mistakes of the USSR by taking a less principled, more pragmatic approach, but if socialism means anything, surely it at the very least means opposing genocide? I just don’t see why a country as powerful as China wouldn’t just draw the line here.
Sorry if this is more of a rant than anything else, I’m just sick of seeing this shit, and literally the only entity on the planet that isn’t run by demons and is powerful enough to help, refuses to do so. Even just sanctions would make a massive difference.
china has demonstrated that its strategy is to avoid direct confrontation at all costs—even when doing so works against its own interests, as in latin america, where newly u.s./israeli-installed leaders are all but certain to reverse decades of belt and road initiative gains once the contracts expire.
history offers plenty of evidence that hegemonic rivals are invariably destroyed, and that the only force capable of destroying an empire is its own people. the implication is that china’s task is to survive as best it can while provoking the bear as little as possible, allowing it to slowly weaken and starve itself in the meantime.