You think a leader of the biggest economy in the world, with a population in the billions, and an active US rival is going to just immediately do an about face and kiss the ring like some USian CEO or media figure or whatever? Xi doesn’t need to kiss the ring, he doesn’t need to curry favor, China has something much better than favor, it has leverage
This, also China is banking where it really matters, for both pragmatic and moral purposes- the global south, aka. the overwhelming global majority.
They don’t need to pander to a bunch of racist declining cracker-states, and doing so would be useless anyways, as China is the world’s largest non-white, non-western state rising up to challenge that order- it is basically enemy #1 for the white supremacists. And similarly, they don’t need to shoot themselves in the foot by backing a bunch of domestic reactionary social movements just to spit on western takes of “wokeness”- cultivating a healthy, harmonious society of 1.5 billion is more important, and the actual matter of life and death for China as a whole.
Instead of pandering to the ““international community”” of the west, China is busy cultivating meaningful ties with the rest of the world and helping them develop; falling for western racism would be thoroughly counterproductive in this regard. And China is demonstrating to the world the achievements of a system that focuses on the common good and material conditions- unlike the west, their offering to the world is not political interference, moral crusading for faux-progressive and/or reactionary means, and imperial divide-and-conquer.
SERIOUSLY
You think a leader of the biggest economy in the world, with a population in the billions, and an active US rival is going to just immediately do an about face and kiss the ring like some USian CEO or media figure or whatever? Xi doesn’t need to kiss the ring, he doesn’t need to curry favor, China has something much better than favor, it has leverage
This, also China is banking where it really matters, for both pragmatic and moral purposes- the global south, aka. the overwhelming global majority.
They don’t need to pander to a bunch of racist declining cracker-states, and doing so would be useless anyways, as China is the world’s largest non-white, non-western state rising up to challenge that order- it is basically enemy #1 for the white supremacists. And similarly, they don’t need to shoot themselves in the foot by backing a bunch of domestic reactionary social movements just to spit on western takes of “wokeness”- cultivating a healthy, harmonious society of 1.5 billion is more important, and the actual matter of life and death for China as a whole.
Instead of pandering to the ““international community”” of the west, China is busy cultivating meaningful ties with the rest of the world and helping them develop; falling for western racism would be thoroughly counterproductive in this regard. And China is demonstrating to the world the achievements of a system that focuses on the common good and material conditions- unlike the west, their offering to the world is not political interference, moral crusading for faux-progressive and/or reactionary means, and imperial divide-and-conquer.
Why kiss rings when you can manufacture your own?
tbf US politics works that way, so I think their brain is just broken by Trump’s theatrics