China may have stopped Putin from using nuclear weapons, Blinken says
China may have stopped Putin from using nuclear weapons, Blinken says
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China is basically winning geopolitics and they know that all they need is to keep things as is.
IDK, Syria has been a huge setback for the CCP. Also, there is a growing wave of Chinese divestment among businesses everywhere, and the CCP is losing influence in Canada and Europe. There is a growing will to break their addiction to cheap Chinese manufacturing. Canada in particular hates the CCP, for the illegal police stations and for the kidnapping and ransom of the Michaels.
Surveys in most countries around the world rank the CCP pretty poorly in terms of public perception. (See for example https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/09/more-people-view-the-us-positively-than-china-across-35-surveyed-countries/ ) If this is the CCP winning, I do wonder what losing would look like.
Machiavelli wrote about this. People don't need to love you for your power to be secure, and in fact, it's far preferable to be respected because people fear you than to be respected because people love you.
Yeah, but Machiavelli lived in a rough neighbourhood, though.