I agree completely. China has no desire to challenge the US led order and take her place. In fact even Chinas Paramount leader Xi Jinping has explicitly said this before recently.
but it seems the US is blind and wants China to submit on everything they want irrespective of their red lines, which is absurd. The US/west should understand that Chinas mindset and thinking is not like Russia(I.e a country who has historically been an expansionist aggressive power and who is bent on challenging the existing world order ), they seem to fail to grasp what Beijing really wants which makes them adopt the wrong strategy towards China(reason they keep failing ).
I have said it before, the US should accept Chinas red lines(Taiwan, SCS) and the US can carry on with her world leadership and have the rest of the world, China couldn’t care less as long as Chinas core sovereignty interests are respected . But the US doesn’t even seem to want to accept this little compromise which I think will be to her advantage still. If they were a rational actor they would have accepted this deal.
