That's a waste of a sentence, which is pretty normal practice nowadays coming out of US politics. Just like how Rubio passes tens of new laws against China every day, yet all are trivial. But hey, at least they tried. Now when the US people in the future put them on trial, they can just throw these back as evidences: "look all these legislature I threw at China, you can't seriously accuse me of inaction!".
This is another total bullshit. The people in the world and their educated elites are NOT stupid. The only stupid ones are the Americans: they do all these useless Rubio virtual-signaling, only to receive equally fake and ingenuine response from the people in the world. Now you have country like Germany paying lip service to the US with these "China Bad", while at the same time, vastly increase their actual business and co-operation with China both under the table and out in the open.
If China's reputation is truly tarnished by such scum-like thug-like tricks of the USA, how on earth did China manage to get Iran and Saudi-Arabia on the negotiation table to mend their relations?
These American thug-ocracy only manage to fool their own people and the idiots who choose to believe in them. You are welcome to believe in them.
Do you even know what "save face" means? Why do you guys act like children: you learn a new word, and you repeat that word everywhere. This is what I don't like the most about the Western style of academia: they LOVE to treat foreign knowledge and wisdom like some kind of exotic "eastern mysticism" bullshit. Making Suntzu into some kind of magician, or Confucius into some kind of weirdo spewing incoherent words of confusion all the time. Every educated Chinese thinks of "克己复礼" when Confucius is mentioned, not some incoherent words of confusion. You think it's funny, we don't.
You don't know what "save face" means, Chinese political thoughts, ideas, methodologies, discourse all has no mentioning of "save face" in their discourse. "Save face" is what we Chinese call a "市井词汇", using it automatic degrades the level of seriousness in the context of any political discourse.
《留候论》：“人情有所不能忍者，匹夫见辱，拔剑而起，挺身而斗，此不足为勇也。天下有大勇者，卒然临之而不惊，无故加之而不怒。” This is written in 1061 AD, centuries before the US started to exist. Do I even need to tell you how primitive your perception is?
When on earth does the average person ever matters, in the grant scheme of history? Don't you ever doubt the motive of those who keep telling you that "you, the regular Joe, actually matters in the grand scheme of history"?
Well, to be honest, I would really doubt the motive behind those who propel the perception that a regular blue collar Joe in the US who has never gone outside of their region in their life time actually matters. I am sorry that I am this harsh. But that's the truth.
I am not a part of the West, you're completely missing my viewpoint. It's like I call you an allien when you're not. I don't know if it's out of malice, unexplained anger, or out of what?
It's not only economic and technological sanctions, but millitary posturing surrounding China, increasing weapon sales and deals toward countries that are directly going against China, new millitary bases around China, more millitary alliances, more soldiers stationed near China, more frequent freedom of navigation exercices, more US-led exercises alongside alies, more of the highest ranked US politicians visiting Taiwan of the US visiting and vice versa, then a plethora of lower rank politicians of the West visiting every week, de jure treating it like a country, not exaggerating, not just the US, but from Lithuania to everyone else.
Therefore, it's not only sanctions, it's everything. And no, it's not a small matter that one could simply ignore.
China-Iran-Saudi Arabia happened because China increased the its assertiveness as well, in the international stage, it didn't happen because they choose to ignore US posturing and pretended it didn't happen like you recommend. Had they done that, no one would even think of asking them for that kind of a deal.
China plans to internationalize yuan even more, grow in power diplomatically and geopolticallly, restore their position in the world from, as the world leader, before the colonialism took over, how do you think they do that? They can't do that by being passsive.
The matter of the fact is that PLA response after Pelosi visit was an adequate response during the first time, however, In the future, the same response would not suffice, there would be an even stronger response required if the provocations persist for China to keep the international image they've built. They can only either increase the intensity or the duration of the blockade, hence, be more aggressive, not passive. That's like basic logic.
