Que loco que la idea con la que volvió de China sea sólamente aumentar la carga laboral y no planes quinquenales, estatizaciones, intervención en toda la economía, ejecución pública de funcionarios corruptos, etc. Siempre lo único a llevarse es que el trabajador debe sufrir.
This WaPo article is unreal: they unironically mock China for not being imperialist and failing to use force to defend its interests, arguing that they're losing out to the U.S. (in Venezuela, Panama, etc.) which does precisely that.
In essence the article can be summarized as: "You Chinese losers thought you could gain influence by actually building things? The only thing that actually works is bombing people."
I'm not even exaggerating. The author literally writes that "China can spend all the money on infrastructure it wants... But in a crunch, it is only military force that counts."
He argues that China's approach was "a colossal waste of money" because "control of infrastructure can be changed" with a US-led "change of regime" and "ownership of any asset can be overturned."
His article's conclusion? "You can’t buy an empire, nor can you purchase global influence. It is only hard power that counts for anything."
As cynical and brutish as the article is, it's also refreshingly honest. It is factual that China's strategy was to win over the Global South by investing in their infrastructure and development, while the U.S. maintains its influence through regime change, various forms of coercion, and the threat (or use) of force.
The conclusion that it is China that should feel embarrassed by this as opposed to the U.S. is, however, completely insane.
Every sane person on earth should hope that it is China's approach that ultimately prevails, for the sake of our collective future as humanity. China is ultimately trying to prove that one can prevail geopolitically without violence, by building instead of destroying: don't be like this idiot WaPo writer and root for the answer to be "no".
Src for the article: https://t.co/UgxwltA4CK
Hey. Remember that time when the Panama Papers came out and the only thing that happened was Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia, one of the journalists who worked to expose the financially and politically powerful, ended up assassinated while the rest of the world shrugged and moved on?
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Obama refused to send lethal aid to Ukraine, whose first invasion by Russia he characterized as not having anything to do with U.S. interests. He cut a deal with Putin to rescue Assad from U.S. intervention in exchange for Syria's abandonment of chemical weapons -- a deal which did not stop Assad from continuing to use chemical weapons. He also let Russia intervene in Syria under the pretext of combating "terrorism," claiming it would be Russia's Vietnam-style quagmire. In reality, Russia successfully destroyed Western and U.S.-backed Syrian opposition factions, turning the tide of the war in Assad's favor. I realize some people get their history from TikTok and comment accordingly, but there are those of us who had to live it in real time.
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