It's important to bear in mind that China is winning right now, and winning very hard at basically everything. The American-led counterattacks have all failed; some quite spectacularly. The more this trend continues, the more it favors China so why start a military conflict and risk everything. The calculus would be different if China were losing right now, but that's far from the case.
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As they say
“Do nothing, win.”
Maybe Japan still dont consider China as a "superpower"?
The Chongqinghotpot82 saga in this thread, as well as opinions from other Shanghainese people on the thread would disagree with you. Everyone here in forum constantly mocks Shanghainese people for being white worshipping cucks and who can blame them.
principally comes from the Australian government: most notably from its defence ministry in general, the Australian Signals Directorate (counterpart to America's NSA and Britain's GCHQ), and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, which just happens to be the parent ministry of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (counterpart to America's CIA and Britain's MI6).
ASPI also receives funding from the US State Department, which is known to provide official covers for certain US government agencies.
Not to say any of the aforementioned entities encouraged, arranged or otherwise facilitated Bethany's exciting new role as ASPI's "."
However, if we're to "follow the money" as many of her fellow American journalists like to say, Bethany may not necessarily be all that different from many, if not the majority of her ASPI colleagues.
Coming from that Jai Hind - String of Pearls/Debt Trap purveyor: Chellaney. Might as well have come from India's FIRST POST
In which case China has not inflicted the kind of economic hurt that will make japs think twice. So far, only a seafood import ban and cutting tourists. All that bluster and tough talk from various ministries, embassies, strongly worded letters to the UN and ends up with this? China has the economic tools to hurt Japan, but it won’t because it’ll also affect China. So, a lack of determination.
And what’s happening now? A return to the status quo. Is that winning a standoff? China gave them face and an off ramp, prioritizing economic stability. Neither netherlands as a whole nor any dutch companies suffered any economic reprisals. Nor the executives that engineered it. German car companies had a production slowdown…for a week. And this was a situation where the dutch played a universally criticized move and China was well within its rights to make them pay.
That has nothing to do with the fishermen and more to do with his corruption. I would argue without his strongman image at China’s expense, he would’ve faced internal trouble even sooner.
China could be soft on all these countries for “economic stability”, but it absolutely cannot be soft on archenemy japan. Every country is watching this as well. If China doesn’t take decisive action this time, it’ll end up besieged on all sides on multiple issues over the coming years. A dragon, tangled up by a dozen snakes.