The key to containing China's ambitions is India. If North America, the EU, Japan, South Korea, Australia and also India combine their ecomomic, military and technological power, there is not a lot China can do about it. Russia and China are notorious frenemies, and Russia just doesnt have the economy to be a super valuable ally for China anyway. China's actions in the Xinjiang provice (brutal reeducation camps for the muslim Uighurs) clearly show that the CCP views islam as a threat and a hostile ideology which has to be eradicated within its own borders, hence, the muslim world is not a suitable ally for China either. So what's left for them would be Africa (resource rich but otherwise piss poor, disorganized and more vulnerable to population growth, climate change and social upheaval than any other region) and perhaps Latin America. And Latin America has far closer geographic and cultural ties to the US and Europe than to China.

So if the West can keep India on his side in this emerging cold war between them and China, then China can only win if it successfully subverts western societies from within, either on the economic or the social front. And these efforts would be easier to contain if they're the only major strategic threat we have to worry about. It should also be noted that the Chinese population is aging rapidly due to the one child policy, so that their demographic dividend and their growth potential will decline in the near future. Furthermore, the transition from an emerging to a high tech nation is far more difficult than getting an emerging nation going. China also has a huge banking/real estate bubble, their fiscal situation might not actually be thaaaaat much better than the one in debt-ridden Western countries.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Dec 8 2020 08:10pm

That's some beta talk tbh.

Public duels were very fun bm and by bm I mean modding. You fight fire with fire, when I played, you had sorcs with Bugged tals and 15life/70mana dupes using auto-aim and tmc, obviously, I'm going to also bm. GM duels never came close to the fun I had in the pub duels.

I would like this post if I has the option. Nice insightful post thx for ur thoughts

There is a vast demographic of rentoids on the left as a whole that would feel otherwise

I would say there is very broad agreement that China's social credit system sucks ass. There is far less agreement in the views of China in general. Is China a hostile, emerging superpower with imperial ambitions which tries to subvert our societies and must be contained? Or is China a fundamentally peaceful, inward-looking nation that should be integrated into the global economy and international institutions (like the UN) as much as possible? I think opinions are faaaar more split on this question than on the SCS itself.

does jsp count for social credits?

Idk man I feel like you can’t commit genocide and still get backing from the left

depends on the genocide, there is a non negligible demographic on reddit that hates landlords, loves communism for promise of free housing (thinking they would do well under it) and sees the maoist purge of landlords as a good thing

Need to send this demographic to China

In college, even half of the engineers harbored these fantasies.