On the one hand, hooray for supporting the development of infrastructure in Africa and stuff. On the other hand, booooo for being a top trading partner with the Zionist Entity, and selling drones to Indonesia, and all that.

So what the Hell do you make of it all! Like I get that there's this term called "realpolitik" which is somehow relevant, but I'd like a longer explanation than just one word. Like how does the good and the bad fit together at its core?

You could certainly write tomes about this topic — many people have done exactly that — and maybe I'm being a bit incurious to expect someone to serve me a quick answer on a silver platter instead of diving into as many articles and PDF books as I can get my hands on... But I'm also just kind of tired of having such extremely underdeveloped views on the most populous AES state and country in general, after I came to unlearn or mistrust whichever views I'd had on China previously.

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[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

China has seized the means of production.

China has taken the grill pill. They are just minding their business waiting for the US to collapse then they will just start being nice to people till everyone likes them and communism has won. That means they are helping a little worldwide as they can but they are only doing so if it doesn't mean any risk to their future position. They are using comunsit principles and theybare working and everything is getting better and that's rad. Unless things change