China holds $3 trillion USD in its foreign reserves. This huge amount of toilet paper will need a very long time to dump. I can assure you it won't happen this year, it will take decades to fully dump that fake currency
Global Chinese diplomatic presence and intervention?
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Correction, $3 trillion worth of reserves. Not $3 trillion USD
solarz
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You also need carrier battle groups. China is only now training it's carriers, it will be at least a decade before they are capable of matching US CVBGs on the open seas. Until then, any security guarantees offered by China are empty promises.
China doesn't need to provide security around the globe, it's clear that this capability is still not quite there yet.
But enforcing American sanctions or imposing your own sanctions against countries that should be Chinese allies? That just doesn't look good. Multi decade economic deals are great words but what matters is the action on the ground. And no matter what economic deal there might be, if the US is putting pressure on China and threatening sanctions, Chinese state owned companies quietly pull out of projects. Apparently, previous governments were unwilling to accept any significant economic cost for supporting an ally. But this obviously isn't working anymore since the Americans started the trade war. So China might as well give them a reason for doing the sanctions that they were going to impose anyway even with no reason. Dropping all sanctions against North Korea should be an easy start
solarz
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Are we talking about North Korea here?
North Korea doesn't have any options. Xi Jinping could literally bitchslap Kim Jongun, and North Korea would still be an "ally".
NK is China's guard dog. Sometimes you have to pretend to punish your dog, but that doesn't keep you from unleashing it when needed.
I believe there is also an awareness of this educational deficiency in Xi's establishment.
China raises status of international law studies in push for home-grown global expertise
- Beijing will support qualified institutes to upgrade international law studies from a second-grade discipline to first grade
- Academic says several major diplomatic incidents – such as the South China Sea arbitration – were essentially legal issues, sparking the shift
Relevant news: Iran and Saudi Arabia restore relation under Chinese support. Like I said, China is shedding the passive diplomatic stance and is now actively engaging diplomacy across the world. I expect this pattern to continue. There is already news of Chinese envoy visiting Israel.
LMAO at all the posts hyperventilating about China not doing anything.
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Its a military focused forum, so its no surprise some members hold the opinion that China should be more like the what Soviet Union was and not hesitate to deploy military hardpower, as well as pick sides as if the world was black and white. But we are in the multipolar world, a complicated one with an ever shifting array of interests and alliances. In this context, one of the main unifiers remains trade, so perhaps it would be prudent to not dismiss China's reliance on diplomacy and economics as ineffective.