Suspect this is only the start (and it is the most existential part, for sure). Today they are fucking about with access to COMMERCIALLY available sat imagery - the kind of stunt we all got freaked out that the Chinese might pull one day.
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The sooner Europe makes it peace with China and works with them the better. China is the rising power in the world, the USA is the declining hegemon, it makes logical sense for the Europeans to join with China and reject the USA.
Unfortunately, if you’re a member of the Global South do you want to become reliant on the US and just hope the American president doesn’t discover your country exists and decide to extort you? If America treats Canada so badly, you don’t want to rely on the US for anything.
The actions of the US are going to end up giving China more willing international partners and end up increasing their long term stability. They stand to gain tremendously!
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There is still a big reason to be cautious about a future China, but at the moment they seem like stable, rational, and reliable powers by comparison.
Haha nah, whatever faults that China has, they're infinitely superior to the USA as a potential ally.
They do keep expanding their territory and making more people their citizens, though 🤔
But the US has now shown that it's just as capable of extortion, and also arbitrary, insane, and unpredictable.
At least China is consistent with their extortion/pressure campaigns.