Post by account_disabled on Jan 28, 2024 7:14:13 GMT
Always end up subject to the powers that dominate nations. We have not learned our lesson. Asia is now the theater of a multipolar world, where rigid alliances are hardly a rarity or an exception Asia is now the theater of a multipolar world, where rigid alliances (or pacts, or ententes, or agreements) are hardly a rarity or an exception. What dominates is multilaterality, that is, flexible alignment, according to the conditions (1). Apparently, everything seems ordered based on China's growth towards global (shared?) leadership. The Western script says that “China should be feared,” or “China should be distrusted.” Every diagnosis must be followed by treatment, but it has taken time to prepare the prescription.
The most radical (or the most thoughtless) have pressed in favor of decoupling (the decoupling of the respective economies), so as not to be conditioned by the dependence of supply chains on commercial traffic. It was Phone Number Database a suicidal strategy. The USSR only represented 1% of Western commercial and economic exchanges. China is an essential customer. Therefore, decoupling has ended up being renounced in favor of derisking. Said in Spanish, eliminate the risks of cooperation. It would simply be a matter of eliminating the exchange of goods and services that may be likely to weaken the security of the West and its regional allies, that is, those of "dual use" (civil, but also military), or that may increase the China's technological capacity, which would also result in the reinforcement of its military power.
That's what it is: a squaring of the circle. The operation is complex, because the middle powers of Asia fear and at the same time need China. They fear what they perceive as a military threat, with its fortifications, deployments, the growth of its naval forces in the South China Sea and its refusal to recognize the rulings of international conventions on maritime borders, etc. But they need to continue trading with China, receiving its infrastructure investment funds, even though they entail debt risks and credit traps. China, furthermore, does not set political or ideological conditions, contrary to what the West usually claims to do. The West has not understood Russia for 40 years A MECHANICAL COMPLEX The United States (and, to some extent, Europe) have been aware of this, which is why they have designed a complex diplomatic-military mechanism , which allows them to guarantee certain defense provisions, without appearing aggressive.
The most radical (or the most thoughtless) have pressed in favor of decoupling (the decoupling of the respective economies), so as not to be conditioned by the dependence of supply chains on commercial traffic. It was Phone Number Database a suicidal strategy. The USSR only represented 1% of Western commercial and economic exchanges. China is an essential customer. Therefore, decoupling has ended up being renounced in favor of derisking. Said in Spanish, eliminate the risks of cooperation. It would simply be a matter of eliminating the exchange of goods and services that may be likely to weaken the security of the West and its regional allies, that is, those of "dual use" (civil, but also military), or that may increase the China's technological capacity, which would also result in the reinforcement of its military power.
That's what it is: a squaring of the circle. The operation is complex, because the middle powers of Asia fear and at the same time need China. They fear what they perceive as a military threat, with its fortifications, deployments, the growth of its naval forces in the South China Sea and its refusal to recognize the rulings of international conventions on maritime borders, etc. But they need to continue trading with China, receiving its infrastructure investment funds, even though they entail debt risks and credit traps. China, furthermore, does not set political or ideological conditions, contrary to what the West usually claims to do. The West has not understood Russia for 40 years A MECHANICAL COMPLEX The United States (and, to some extent, Europe) have been aware of this, which is why they have designed a complex diplomatic-military mechanism , which allows them to guarantee certain defense provisions, without appearing aggressive.