The most annoying “counterargument” I see in response to this is “They only say that to make China support them” at which point I just have to wonder why they don’t just turn into a US collaborator dictatorship if they have no morals or ideology guiding them, its way more invested in supporting things like that.
Same with the idea that Muslims countries are just amoral hellholes that will ignore all manner of cruelty and brutality for a little money from China, why aren’t they just getting friendly with the west then? Its incredibly low levels of political analysis to assume pure money dictates positions and attitudes rather than a combination of ideology and material conditions.
