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I agree regarding the lack of trade embargo and economic coercion against israel despite having written before how i think it would end up symbolic and not stop the genocide, they should still have done it. Imperialism has been in their borders for half a century in pretty much the same capacity it is now. The only thing that changed is that the balance of hard power now favors China for the first time and will increasingly do so with each passing year. SOft power as well but thats another talk. China knows where imperilism is and is coming from and has made the necessary decisions and has built the hard power to kick its ass when it finaly attacks in desperation. Iran should have done the same with similar urgency and focus. And thats the only thing that matters, cause china is simply too big to be salami sliced, contained, embargoed or stopped by all these ohh so smart economical and geopolitical games. The US could put a comprador regime next to them and that regime will still be forced to continue the same amount of trade and relations with China because their entire economy and state couldnt function otherwise. It is and will become increasingly clear that Imperialism could only hope to actualy achieve its objectives regarding China by an an actual desperation war with not great chances for them and at the same time thats its the only way for imperialism to be kicked away from its borders, where it has been as i said for most of its modern history. Either imperialism will chicken out out given it will probably lose, try and nuke the plannet, try without nuking the plannet and probably losing with a slim chance of success. Whether some reformist becomes leader of Iran and now China only gets the oil it increasingly needs less off without discount and no massive economic cooperation happens with Iran (which the current regime also has been dragging its feet ) doesnt move the needly remotely enough to matter for an actual conflict between China and "the imperialism in its borders"

This kind of naive, incoherent and doomerist posting is pretty damn recent, and has basically been escalating since October 7th, with this being the most fevered pitch, which I can barely read anymore because it is so all over the place, and so depressed that it reminds me of how people were posting about the Kursk incursion.

Now mind you, this isn't that, but the idea that we have been able to accurately predict, either positively or negatively, exactly what is going on is laughable, and the amount of doomer screeds and even fairly silly hopium based around that is insane rn. I may as well go talk to some ultras if I wanted to be this armchair general upset.

It clearly doesn't matter how many effort posts one makes showing how China is following neoliberal reform advice from westerners and the Biden admin.

Correct.

"Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?" -Xi Jinping

I recognize your username and I appreciate many of your contributions to the news mega in general, but what is it that you expected China to do to in this situation? I'm genuinely asking, how should China have responded?

Should they have drawn themselves (including their 1.5 billion civilians) into a hot war between the fascist, collapsing U.S. state and the repressive, theocratic state of Iran? Is this the hill to die on? Let's go nuclear!