10-22-2024, 06:41 PM
(10-22-2024, 01:11 AM)Potato wrote: The key component of current Chinese economy is a compliant and hungry population. Will be interesting to see what happens when people want more economic and political freedom (which will come with expanding economic success).
It'll be interesting to see what happens when China continues to be 'friends' with Russia and distances itself from the US/EU.
Sure they have 'undermined' the west at times through competitive business deals, partnerships and even relationships/honey pots. But at the same time their population (especially those that matter) have created strong connections with the west. Not to mention the Russians are very racist against the Chinese in general and it won't be an appealing holiday destination for the Chinese anytime soon. At the same time the Chinese are trying to rip off the Russians at every possible opportunity as they can smell the blood in the water.
No matter how many feathers Putin stuffs in Xi's ass, I don't think the Chinese would accept swapping their trips to the Netherlands, Japan and other countries with a holiday in Crimea as easily as the Russians do.