I was thinking of past sales; their current mediation is great and will hopefully end the war in Yemen + the decline/end of the petrodollar is a huge deal. Maybe the CPC’s been playing 7D chess and this was the goal all along
It’s shows the sorry state of the world, but you might be on to something there. The CPC is Marxist and it’s strategy and tactics are on point even if we don’t understand every decision and even if they make mistakes. Just imagine the kind of internal debates that can be had among 80+ million communists, unfettered by any need whatsoever to appease liberals. That’s a lot of brain power.
I don’t like the arms sales, either (not just to SA, although that is a particularly egregious example). If it wasn’t China, would it have just been someone else? And now China is in a position to broker peace. Much to the chagrin of the US bourgeoisie.
In the long term, SA can be promised a key role in land routes between China and Africa. SA is in a pivotal location for that. Imagine high speed rail from Asia to Africa. We can dream of a prosperous future for a region that the west repeatedly bombed.
Tbh, I’m trying to make sense of it, here, but it doesn’t feel right suggesting that Yemen was a necessary sacrifice for all this – because that’s what it means to suggest that selling arms to SA was worth it. That can’t be right.
Another perspective may be that by selling arms to SA and building trust and relationships in the Middle East, China will be able to end the war in Yemen sooner than it would have otherwise ended. And if China can unite SA and Iran, we may be looking at the growth of the material support network needed to see a free Palestine, too.
other than in hindsight, the only thing I can think of is China selling weapons to Saudi Arabia
It’s unfortunate, but if nothing else it pulls them away from the US.
I was thinking of past sales; their current mediation is great and will hopefully end the war in Yemen + the decline/end of the petrodollar is a huge deal. Maybe the CPC’s been playing 7D chess and this was the goal all along
It’s shows the sorry state of the world, but you might be on to something there. The CPC is Marxist and it’s strategy and tactics are on point even if we don’t understand every decision and even if they make mistakes. Just imagine the kind of internal debates that can be had among 80+ million communists, unfettered by any need whatsoever to appease liberals. That’s a lot of brain power.
I don’t like the arms sales, either (not just to SA, although that is a particularly egregious example). If it wasn’t China, would it have just been someone else? And now China is in a position to broker peace. Much to the chagrin of the US bourgeoisie.
In the long term, SA can be promised a key role in land routes between China and Africa. SA is in a pivotal location for that. Imagine high speed rail from Asia to Africa. We can dream of a prosperous future for a region that the west repeatedly bombed.
Tbh, I’m trying to make sense of it, here, but it doesn’t feel right suggesting that Yemen was a necessary sacrifice for all this – because that’s what it means to suggest that selling arms to SA was worth it. That can’t be right.
Another perspective may be that by selling arms to SA and building trust and relationships in the Middle East, China will be able to end the war in Yemen sooner than it would have otherwise ended. And if China can unite SA and Iran, we may be looking at the growth of the material support network needed to see a free Palestine, too.