Like, Xi coming out in a military uniform declaring the official establishment of the fourth international and an open invite to all current BRICS members, war against Israel, and a fatwa against the uh imperial powers (fuck off fbi).

Or maybe Xi steps down to be replaced by motherfucking mao-shining

sicko-wistful

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      I’m being tongue in cheek but

      We are in the interwar period now.

      We have begun the war period. There is no harm reduction, China cannot just sneak itself out of the limelight and into utopia. The west is gunning for them, and trump/US is very willing to launch a war of attrition.

      BRICS is still only in the promising, hopeful stages. For all their progress in international relations, China desperately needs to build a much stronger coalition. They need to go out more, stop studying theory all the time

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          Its time we in the west realized these things, and started acting like what we are. Failures who China is going to have to come save.

          We know, that’s why all the comments in here are variations of “China please come save us” and “Why isn’t China coming and saving us?”

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          I agree with you in the broad strokes, but I couldn’t let this fly

          the information you have access to is nothing compared to what the people leading China have access to

          This was a bad argument when the Dubya defenders made it regarding the War on Terror, and it’s a bad argument now. Regardless of what information the Chinese leadership has access too, I think it is clear that a) China has room to make bigger moves on the international stage than it is currently making and b) many of the moves it is currently making unnecessarily err on the side of caution/imperial collaboration to the detriment of the global socialist project.

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              It could disavow Israel and stop working with it. That’d be nice. Plus like 90% of the world is anti-Israel at this point so it would only piss off America and Israel and Germany.

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        The west is gunning for them, and trump/US is very willing to launch a war of attrition.

        The west is still too reliant on China to gun for them, honestly. Half of goods have still been excepted from the ‘tariff war’, and the other half are just being shipped through or to other western countries with a minimal reduction in profit. Europe if anything is embracing China as an economic ally. There is no real attrition war here.

  • You know, how about we wish for a radical flank effect thing.

    You know, even in Cold War times, the Soviet Union initially didn’t help for shit much. One of its key driving forces to pro-Soviet intervention was, really, its more revolutionary yet weaker smaller militant partners dragged them along, like Cuba in Latin America, or China in East Asia, regarding the Korean War.

    The thing is, we don’t have such radical forces, domestic or international, to push more revolutionary goals

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    Most people want a confortable status quo, China has this, they successfully updated to the XXIst century with a big cool revolution and now they’re interested in enjoying life under the current better-yet-imperfect system

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    During the first cold war, the US made a successful rhetorical pitch by framing capital and its institutions as the calm, rules-based approach to international relations. Despite how much that is not actually the way the US empire operates when rubber hits the road, it has appeal because broadly that’s what people want from international institutions. They want calm. They want to be told that level heads are prevailing, that tomorrow is going to look like today.

    After the last few decades (and especially with Trump making waves), that desire is still there but more and more people recognize that the US cannot, and has not, delivered. Calm boring BRICS, quietly spinning up its wheels, can make (and maybe even fulfill) that promise.

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    That’s the problem with “Do Nothing, Win”. You get addicted to doing nothing.

    I’m kind of only half-joking. Reality is China is on a guaranteed course to become the world superpower, I don’t suppose they’re eager to change course.