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.

True, but i wouldn’t be surprised to see the US trying to drum up anti china sentiment in countries with belt and road initiatives in them

Africa is a large continent with a lot of Chinese money flowing into it and many US military personnel stationed around the continent.

the dprk is technically china’s only treaty ally. so, probably the dprk

Its not exactly a proxy war, but for the last decade or so some have argued for the continued US occupation of Afghanistan on the grounds that occupying it could be used to destabilize China.

The BRI is partially a response to the Anglo threat of contesting naval trade with warships. Any war that pops up in a neighbor of China/BRI nation would potentially disrupt BRI development and China’s western independent supply chain.

This interview with Julian Feeld of QAnon Anonymous kinda supports this. Basically the people that were selling something they knew was bullshit have been supplanted by the true believers, now we have people like MTG getting elected and taking their death cult into a dangerous realm of serious action.

This is why I said we have until we elect some fascist psycho. Do people REALLY think we’re not going to get another Trump? Like the other guy said we have MTG in office, it’s not long until we have someone even more unhinged and loaded up on insane ideology like QAnon as president, along with a bunch of other nutters slowly worming their way in

You’re right, and if they do that, they’ll need to pump it back up or find another scapegoat. End of History as an ideological solution had maybe a decade of life, max.

Yeah I think the bounds for war with China are a primarily naval engagement in the South China Sea with maybe boots on the ground in Taiwan. An attack on the mainland is a logistical impossibility for so many reasons.

And when I say “viable” I mean just getting boots on the ground, to even approach anything looking like a stalemate would require military buildup surpassing WWll levels

I think that the US has “learned” from past wars like Iraq. Obama’s war in Libya is a good example. There won’t be an “invasion”, the US will just try to destroy the country and leave. Preferably with zero boots on the ground.

nuclear war is what they want to avoid at all costs, yes, but people are downplaying the fact that the scale of conflict could involve neither party being threatened enough to use nukes. a war between america and china wouldn’t be the all encompassing existential threat that warrants the use of such power. these are rwo powers separated by a vast ocean, fighting over islands in said ocean. no one could or would feasibly invade the other because once island bases like okinawa or taiwan are captured or neutralised, there’s no sense in doing anything but holding onto your gains and making it clear you’ve won and won’t budge.

wars between two nuclear powers can be hot, but localised enough and small enough in scale that neither country feels the need to escalate so dramatically as to destroy the world— but the death toll can still be catastrophic.