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China better accept that we are entering a period of global bloc politics. As much as they don't want to play the Soviet Union, they better find a way to be the anti-imperialist pole of a bipolar - not multipolar - world.
I don't know even the Soviet Union didn't want to play the Soviet Union.
Who knows what the Soviet Union would have done if it wasn't busy playing Soviet Union. Maybe it could have even played Soviet Union.
Really makes you think.
Agreed, but I got dunked on for saying something similar and they dropped a lot of good points on my head.
They have a population of 1.4 billion people to worry about, escalating conflict with the US / the west over other countries would put their own citizens at risk
Oh, I totally agree. And they aren't geared for global military conflict at all. But the period is coming where the US will force their hand, and I don't see a way out of it. Their plan to make the US's economic power irrelevant is working so well that the US is resorting to its other great strength. China's understandable efforts to avoid repeating the USSR's errors in military overextension means they are missing opportunities to repeat its successes. I think it's inevitable because the US has no other options.
What were those successes?
Of the USSR in general? for a start taking a nation from feudalism to the first person in space in under 4 decades with a quick break to defeat the Nazis in the middle
Of their miltary policies post-war specifically: support for anti-cololnial movements in Algeria, South Africa, Vietnam etc which threw off the shambles of western capatlist imperialism
Supporting almost 50 revolutions worldwide. China supported Korea, Cambodia (cringe) and Vietnam* during Mao's time, but since then they have not aided anyone else in any serious capacity.
*some exceptions apply
to their own detriment in latin america.
WWII, Vietnam/Laos, Algeria, Angola and their role in ending apartheid in South Africa, Cuba and the DPRK (regardless of your opinion of them they would not exist without the USSR)