The president’s executive order also cuts future funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which provides aid to Palestinians.
The president’s executive order also cuts future funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which provides aid to Palestinians.
Yeah I feel the same. The west by this point understands China’s strategy and understands to disrupt it they can just use violence and coercion and China will blink every time as long as it happens outside their borders. That’s a weak spot. That’s one of the reasons I think why we’re seeing the shift to naked imperialism, the move away from trying to use progressive language and lofty talk of values and vague crying about security to just threats, just telling Panama they will play ball or they’ll be destroyed. It has its own limits but I’m not sure much of the world is ready or able to stand up to the US imperialist violence and regime change machine in a meaningful way yet.
Right now it seems like it’s still the right move to build up productive forces but there comes a point in the near future, probably the next 5 years where they have a decision to make and their choice there could be very key for whether anyone is willing to stand with BRICS and China or if they all fold the second the US makes a threat because China won’t do anything to help them and it’s a no-brainer that the greater benefit, the rational choice is bowing to the US. And at that point, at that moment IF China has no credibility and the US is still strong, their whole BRI, their alliances, their trade, their influence will crumble and the US will succeed in isolating them and turning up the pressure to cook them and their economy and friendship with Russia and the DPRK and Vietnam will not be enough to save their economy from the turmoil and the party’s rule will be in incredible danger at a point like that because once the economy fails, the material benefits vanish they lose the support of a lot of the people who are not shall we say ideologically committed Marxists.
Latin America is probably too far, too deep in what everyone conceptualizes as the geographically near “fair” geopolitical influence sphere of the US for China to really do much intervention there even in 10, 15 years barring US power evaporating but I hope they know to stand with Africa, with Asia, with their crucial trading partners that are more distant from US power and more critical to their global supply and sales chains.
I definitely understand and respect your concerns, and I will always applaud those that have the gumption to plan ahead for the distant future for problems that could snowball, and begin to address them.
But that all being said, you are being extremely, extremely too fatalistic and cynical. I always maintain that cynicism is closer to reality than optimism, but too much of anything is a bad thing. Cynicism can blind you just as much as optimism can.
There is no fucking way on Earth that China would lose any credibility, at least not any major or significant amount, especially compared to the U.S.'s rabid dog-bullying and aggression.
Even if China had limited credibility, which would be outright delusional and opposite-world, I wager that only a relative handful of countries would side with the rapidly-crumbling U.S. empire. It’s not the 1990’s or 2000’s anymore. China is the heroic and rational paragon of the Global South, morally, economically, militarily, supply-chain-wise and culturally.
There is even less of a chance of the DPRK, Vietnam or Russia turning it’s back on China.
Latin America, itself will almost definitely call for China’s help if necessary and if they actually ask China, I feel that in my bones. If and when the U.S. does some truly stupid and evil shit, China won’t stand by.
This isn’t to say it wouldn’t be difficult, or that the U.S. couldn’t succeed using terrorism, coups, or armed conflict or subterfuge, but Latin America has received so much benefit from China, and can finally somewhat stand up for itself. While people, groups and countries can be very selfish, I see no goddamn way that Latin America or Africa turns on China. I wager even most of Asia and probably some countries in eastern europe would also side with China.
I’m not claiming to be psychic or saying that you have no valid concerns, but because of the U.S. rapidly declining, the west itself being a paper tiger, China fucking TROUNCING the West all by itself, there is no fucking way that the U.S. or West in general is nearly as much of an actual threat as it pretends to be. And with the combined might of Iran, Russia, Vietnam, the DPRK, Venezuela, Nicaragua? Almost all relatively large socialist or anti-imperialist countries, heavy-weights in their own regions? The Russia war machine itself being more than a match for NATO? Russia needs China, more than China needs Russia. Billions and billions of people globally rely and look up to China.
There is no fucking galaxy where the U.S. wins. It’s a ridiculous, poisonous, psychotic, toxic shithole that has NONE of the strength it pretends to have.
My only major concerns are the U.S. using nuclear weapons or war/terrorism to collapse a handful of countries, but with China’s technology, and the world’s moral, social, political, economic and supply-chain and military cooperation?
It’s not a question of if socialism/China wins, in the end. It’s only a question of survival.
Thank you for pointing out my excessive pessimism. I often forget the whole “optimism of the soul” portion of the quote which is ever so important. I think my proximity to my field of study has definitely shaped my perception of Nuclear Armageddon as an ever increasing likelihood, when I ought to hold a bit more trust in its avoidance.
I should also mention that these bouts of frustration don’t deter my support for the PRC, or diminish my thoughts on the eventual victory of the people, but they are still concerns I voice from time to time due to fear of nuclear war. I’ve been particularly unenthused since the fall of Syria and am still yet to process all my greif on the matter. Though ironically enough I think it’s been improved slightly by a well-formatted scientific article concerning the core mechanics of a Pebble Bed Reactor designed at Tsinghua University I read about a week ago. It was published a couple years ago, but I was impressed by it and it’s somewhat made me feel more firm in the People’s Republic’s capabilities.
Apologies if that seems odd, or if my pessimism crossed the threshold that is acceptable.
May I ask what your field of study is?
I’m glad that your frustration doesn’t massively deter your support for the PRC.
I understand greatly how you feel. Just please always keep in mind, that you are human. Don’t beat yourself up too much. That’s a problem I have to.
For me personally, I don’t think grief can ever be fully processed. It’s just something to live with.
It’s also always reasonable to be skeptical and criticize the PRC, but they have been doing stuff like this for the better part of a century. I’m sure they know what they are doing, for the most part.
I like how you phrased your cynicism, but as with everything in life, I think it’s more about shades rather than threshholds.
I’m studying Nuclear Engineering, and it’s a field that is both lovely in its opportunity yet utterly demoralizing to be around people who hold passion for it. My mood can swing quite rapidly depending on the information available to me and I generally dislike holding on for optimistic outcomes, it feels self-important to believe that things can work out without strife, so I generally just attempt to do my best and hope that results in getting through whatever struggle is put before me.
It’s worked so far. Though I still do ponder what needs to be done in my portion if the empire to savatoge its capability at destroying the world. I’m better about methodical action over innovative new forms of struggle, but I’m trying to improve the latter.
I find nuclear related stuff to be fascinating. The promise of nearly infinite energy, possibly the ability to synthesize any material, substance or particle in the distant future.
I have a cocktail of mental disorders, namely BPD, Bipolar 2, OCD, impulse control disorder, I’m on the autistic spectrum as well.
I know what it’s like to have “mood swings” or intense moments, as I call them.
I relate alot to you.
Ever since I was a little kid, while I always liked happy, sunshine and rainbows type of explanations and actions, and I liked the belief that everything mostly works out in the long run, what interested me the most was science and reasoning.
I feel that science is the most important tool of humanity, and that the “darkness” and “coldness” of science can shine a light on the atrocities, flaws, and toxic optimism of reality, that most people gloss over or don’t think too hard about.
I’m not trying to brag about this, since I think it probably is a serious problem, but I don’t like to feel happy or content or satisfied.
I’m not sure if you can relate, but it sounds like you might.
I’ve always thought that happiness and optimism are very vague, immaterial, very fleeting, temporary and dangerous feelings.
I feel if I allow myself to be happy or content, then I will slack off, grow complacent, make mistakes or forget something, and someone could end up getting hurt or something could go wrong.
I’m never content to rest on my laurels, and I hate the idea of relaxing or pushing problems or future concerns to the side, even when I should breathe and take inventory, I’m always pushing to the next challenge, in a practically pathological manner. I have a very high standard for myself, and even though I’m only human, I almost never purposefully allow myself to just sit and relax and enjoy things.
Sorry if I rambled.
I figure someone always has to worry or think ahead, and since I can only barely trust myself, and not anyone else, that person should be me.