• CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    no doing of its own

    This is kinda true but not in the way the author intends. A big part of why China’s geopolitical fortunes are able to rise is because they literally don’t do anything while America acts like a huge bully and pisses everyone off, as long as America’s foreign policy is what it is China gets to play the game of international relations on easy mode.

    • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      not quite easy mode because the entire west and parts of the rest of the world are made of gibbering sinophobes high on western agitprop…