Yet. There’s a case to be made that as the cold war between China and the United States heats up, China will look around and realize that it needs more friends. We’re already starting to see this with the BRI, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, building HSR in Laos, shoring up relations with Vietnam, etc. China’s play has always been for integration with the global system to build themselves up. As the Americans block this strategy and signal that the world is closed to continued Chinese economic expansion, it stands to reason that they can fall back to the strategy Mao and Co already paved the path for with Third Worldism.