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According to the West, soft power cannot be gained though force or incentive like money, yet here because they claim China is motivated by using green technology to gain soft power, they still make it sound like there's something wrong and nefarious going on. If it was the West who was the leader in green technology, there would be no question nor any challenge allowed to the West's motivations being for the good for all.
USAID is the State Department. They are under new management where Macro Rubio is in charge of it. USAID was only dismantled so they could fold the MAGA aligned parts under direct management from the Trump Admin.
Being old school Shanghainese isn't about dressed in suits while working at an investment bank worshipping the west. Proper old school shanghainese is about wearing a singlet on your way back home chugging salty soda trying to cool off because you've been sweating it out all day working at Bao Steel contributing to modernization of China. Fortunately that side of Shanghai is not gone, for is not the carrier Fujian, largest warship ever built in Asia not born in Shanghai not long ago?
Don't let haters tell you what Shanghai is and isn't, and least of all don't let these neo-Shanghainese still trying extra hard to hide their 乡毋宁-ness control what it means to be a shanghainese.
The same ways as India.
The confrontation has just begun and you never play all your cards at once.
Well yourself just gave one of the reasons why China doesn't go for the knockout blows that keyboard warriors keep advocating for, so what's your objection? We live in a globalized economic order, whether you like it or not is inoperative, only choice is to get used to it.
Lots of people have mischaracterized China's measured approach to policy as such. Today, China has emerged on top of most of its past geopolitical confrontations, including the trade war with the US. So who are we to criticize?
They got ownership of the company back and humiliated the Europeans by outing them as lapdogs with no independent foreign policy. So in short, yes it is winning. Eventhough I rarely do this, I say this is one area where there's not much room for debate.
Eh anyhow, back to point one, the confrontation is just starting and thus far China hasn't dropped the ball geopolitically at all this year. So just wait and see what happens.
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A lot of CPTPP members are already RCEP members (Australia is part of it) or members of ASEAN which China already have a free trade agreement with, it's not a big deal if China can't join. Ultimately the TPP was originally designed to isolate China by the US so the fact that the US isn't part of the CPTPP is already a good outcome for China.
Peru and Chile also have bilateral FTAs with China, and Canada/Mexico is unlikely to create one with China because of US influence/pressure.
