rubbish, the west has no power in those places, hasnt been involved since the 70's and the final collapse of the remains of the british empire, since then its chaotic behaviour from individual business, nothing organised.Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 7:03 pm
Most of these riots are organized by Western "authorities"
to be clear, because this conversation jumps across 10 centuries and 100's of countries.
yes, the world is multipolar, and that has been growing since the rise of china, nothing to do with russia, everything to do with china becoming big enough to be relevant - a market with the power to change small countries economies.
no, chinas "win win" nonsense is not any more real than anyone elses - it will be the same mixed bag the west does - some good business doing good things, some exploitive business doing exploitive things.
sometimes the government will be looking for brownie points and being generous - other times they will be politically angry and punish you.
same ole.
the middle east is probably the one place that China will be different, and possibly better, than the West, I can agree with that.
