I also wish they’d do more, but part of me wonders if they’re genuinely scared of what a US response to firmer action might look like

The PRC walks a very fine line of hampering western efforts to ruin the region on one hand and not handing the west ammunition for its war propaganda regarding the planned war against China.

It was China who mediated the peace talks between the Saudis and Iran. It was China which enabled Iran to weather the sanction regime of the US. Recently China started fucking with Israel, by upholding laws it previously ignored in the trade with the zionist entity.

I think yes and no. Of course I’d love to see them go balls to the wall, denounce the whole Zionist entity and start dishing out sanctions and providing material support to the resistance. I know that’s what they’d like to do if it were practical.

But this is China. They are a deeply practical and calculated state, who prioritize the well-being of their people and revolution over all else. And I cannot blame them for not engaging in this arguably reckless manner.

To me this is just China playing the long game once again. I think they realize the occupation cannot last, that the west is crumbling and that the PRC will emerge victorious if they stick the path. So that’s what they’re doing.

Reeeevolution had good points as well

China’s “tactics” have been to provide education, jobs, opportunities, infrastructure and an increased standard of living. It’s the West whose tactics are to indiscriminately bomb and terrorize civilians, destroy infrastructure and starve out populations.

actually incredible that liberals like you think that China’s response to fighting insurgents has been more extreme than the west’s. or have you already forgotten amerikkka’s adventures in west and central asia, let alone all the shit its internal security services do on its home soil (most of which consists of entrapping lonely brown boys)?