Some people dont share your negative view... but maybe CN will address that in next 5 years..
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Some people dont share your negative view... but maybe CN will address that in next 5 years..
AssassinsMace
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Yeah funny at a laughing at him sort of way.
nothing to see here
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Just look at Pete Zeihan. The guy is on the map it seems just for "confirming" to people what they want to believe. The Republicans love his crap because he tells them what they want to hear. And where does his data come from? I tried to do a search to see if Peter Zeihan was ever in China. I could not find any results. So his information comes from what others have written. And Republicans always demand personal experience to have any credibility on being an expert when you say something they don't like. And Peter Zeihan has none when it comes to China. And let's not be fooled that demographics is also a message on virility. And lets also not forget the US is suffering from a demographic problem and the only reason why the US is seeing growth is because of non-white immigration to which is why it's a top issue with Republicans to fight against.
Why do Westerners care about the demographic problems in China? It has not a threat to them. Besides it fulfils their dream of the elimination of Chinese people existing. It's one of things where the West always acts like they know the solution and guess what? You have to do what they say to get it. It's like the West has the answer on how China can become an innovative country. The West doesn't want China to be an innovative country. Just look at everything they're complaining about China and trade. They are not looking to make China even more of a juggernaut of innovation they can't compete with than it is now. First they establish how important it is like soft power and then you start begging to them on how to get it?
The source was a 2018 paper:
It seems that was the year that China and Japan re-established the currency swap deal. Calling it "easily falsifiable BS" is not a charitable characterisation as the thrust of my post is still correct. There was a rapprochement between China/Japan and mysterious deaths led to its expiry in 2013.
Every time a country begins to have an independent foreign policy, the US intervenes, whether through official means or clandestine.
There is no doubt a lot of US influence in these allied countries. But that is true about US as well, where there is a lot of influence via lobbyists, businesses and think tankers getting funds and influence from places like Japan, Taiwan or Europe. And every time US wants to make a policy that goes against the current Western empire paradigm, such as going soft on Taiwan for example or Ukraine, these influences start steer US policy back to what it was before.
But in both US and in allied countries if there is a fundamental shift in public thinking due to national interest, then these soft influences are not going to be able to stop change. They can push and pull in certain directions, but national political will can trump these influence ops.
Japan has more anti-China national thinking than US does and no amount of CIA op will be able to change that. If US becomes a Chinese friend for example, then Japan will likely take out US forces right away and become a north korea like pariah country rather bow to China. This is the fundamental national will of Japan.
Same thing about the baltics, they would rather become America's enemy than bow to Russia.