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Hexbear: It’s actually helping a lot with Chinese characteristics.
You joke but Hexbear will believe it. I mean, China for the longest time has an isolationist foreign policy. What China only cares about with other countries is trade, and if China does not have a trade deficit. They have imposed a tributary system in the past, and in the present they are emulating it. China in Mandarin is “Middle Kingdom” after all. They believe they are the centre of trade, culture and civilisation, which is the case before the rise of the West. The West only rose because of the desperate end goal to reach to China and the Far East.
Borderline racist rambling tbh, China isn’t doing anything because they’re not obligated to do anything and they’re not rabid ideologues like the Soviets were.
Also they’re just capitalists larping as socialists so the end question is always what’s in it for them. They’ll keep happily selling Iran weapons for oil and cash, same as ever. If an actual invasion happens you might see them support a proxy war but I wouldn’t count on seeing the People’s Liberation Army fighting Yankee pig dogs any time soon.
Well, India and SE Asia were also pretty high up on the trade route wishlist. Europe basically just wanted certain trade goods they didn’t have, and for the first time anywhere had the technology to scalably cross the high seas to get them.
They have imposed a tributary system in the past, and in the present they are emulating it.
In a lot of ways, China is what would have happened if Rome had successfully been put back together.
Iran proved to be able to defending themselves by themselves. Also look at how the usa backstabbed ukraine again by easing up the sanctions and moved south korean airdefense to protect the settler colonial power Israel