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The 21-country survey for the influential European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) thinktank also found that under Trump, the US is less feared by its traditional adversaries, while its allies – particularly in Europe – feel ever more distant.
The poll, of nearly 26,000 respondents in 13 European countries, the US, China, India, Russia, Turkey, Brazil, South Africa and South Korea, found majorities in almost every territory surveyed expected China’s global influence to grow over the next decade.
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China is making China great. They’re proving to the rest of the world that their economic model is better than the West’s.
It’s why Americans need to artificially inflate the prices of EVs by restricting the sale of Chinese EVs in their country.
Everyone you see driving a Tesla is a moron who played right into the hands of their oligarchs.
their economic model is better than the West’s.
Curious, how do you judge that? There are metrics like GDP, GDP per capita, currency exchange rate, etc but being able to compare those means having reliable numbers. AFAIK China stopped publishing some of those metrics (US too! labor related numbers iirc) and the exchange rate does not apply because the RMB is fixed. Going in countries themselves to “check” means little as you can walk through Potemkin villages.
I’m not saying you’re wrong only wondering how you reached that conclusion.
I am in the Philippines where, despite being a nominal ally of the US, we have trade with China much more than the US but rather in a way completely displaces my country’s agricultural and industrial capacities, so as a result we are not only consuming Chinese goods as a cheap alternative to Western/Japanese/Korean goods but also locked into a rather vassal relationship (even after Duterte) where Xi feels like he can decide the fate of the Global South.
All the while the Mainland trying to claim all of a body of water mistakenly named for itself and literally taking it as a mark of ownership, which the sea-grab is what keeps Filipinos out of the Chinese-made stupor of a supposed “benevolent relationship”. However, as the US declines, so does the Chinese influence becomes bigger to the point there would likely be more of Duterte and their running dogs kowtowing to Xi and his successors.
The feels when you finally achieve your white christofascist ethnostate, but now you have to learn mandarin because you pissed away all of you international clout and soft power
We’ll see how long that soft power thing lasts when they invade Taiwan. In the end global superpowers are nothing but the biggest bullies on this planet.
And who is going to care?
Did the EU care about Venezuela? No, only when they threaten Greenland.
Why would they rock the boat for Taiwan?
Maduro was hostile to the EU too. Why would the EU help a Russian ally to stay in power? Taiwan however is a friend.
But actually more important then that is that a lot of other countries dislike China and have territorial conflicts with them. India, Japan and the entire South China Sea conflict come to mind. They are all going to respond no matter what the US does. It is also unlikely to only be a kidnapping, but has to be a full invasion.
America might once have cared to defend Taiwan, because the whole tech economy is powered by their chips. But the U.S. is so diminished, overextended, and chaotic that China clearly recognizes an opening.
I think Xi makes a move within the next two years.
EU doesn’t care that much about Greenland, either.
The fall of empire is usually documented as stagnation. Trump seems to be trying to be the best in the world, ever, at speed running the end of an empire.
Fucking accelerationism. I live in a country thousands of miles away from California, and yet I am forced to watch the possible fall of a supposed superpower.
The only silver lining is the sheer staggering incompetency at every level
They’re not really ‘doing nothing’
Belt and Road is a LOT of work.
Yes, but it is not China that changed approach radically, it is the US that did…for the worse.
