China's soft power already won the battle in Africa. But
that is just what we have learnt on the surface. Under layers of
peeling, and the gratitude and understanding expressed by the African
leaders, we now also know that China, Russia and North Korea had been
rendering help to African nations in their fight against colonialism.
China's
food aid to some African nations decades ago, while it was still dirt
poor and facing starvation itself, is not a sacrifice that the Africans
will ever forget. They are deeply grateful today, unlike those that bite
the hands of China, whose helping hand is forgotten the moment their
problems are solved.
China's soft power has also been slowly
winning its influence over ASEAN states. It has been noted that ASEAN is
now more in favor of China being the superpower in this region and not
the USA. ASEAN should know that all the USA wants is using ASEAN to
counter China and is not winning support, except from the Philippines.
China
is in a strong position in Latin America as well, investing in various
places like Mexico, and forging relations with many countries over
there. In fact, China is now working with the Nicaraguan Government to
refloat the idea of developing the 'Nicaraguan Canal' to link the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans, bypassing the Panama Canal, which is now
facing big problems due to climate change.
China's BRI is also of
great help for trade for those landlocked countries in Central Asia,
much to the chagrin of the USA and India. And these two are making
alliances just to counter China's investments in the BRI.
By the
way, what happened to the India-Europe trade corridor via Saudi Arabia?
Israel/Hamas war must have killed it for sure. And what about the US$600
billion Gobal Infrastructure Investment talked about. How is it
progressing I wonder. Or will it die with Joe Biden. Or Trump will kill
it if he wins. Trump is mad about using USA money to protect Europe and
what is there to think he will want to spend US$200 billion (USA's
share) helping even non- Nato partners. USA can't even have money to
repair its crumbling infrastructures.
Anonymous
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Porky Trump is a white supremacist who doesn't want wars among the Europeans. Pulling out of European conflicts doesn't mean he is a peaceful man. He is just a wicked and evil white racist and supremacist and an illogical Chinese hater. He wants to pull out of Europe to concentrate on taking down China. He has no qualms in starting a war against China via creating hostilities in Taiwan, South China Sea and the Philippines and East China Sea with Japan in the Diao Yudao issue. Both Trump and Bidamn are equally evil anti-China warmongers.
Yang Rong Nan
Will rebuilding the Baltimore Bridge really have to take 3 to 5 years? China could probably do it in half the time. That time frame is probably to squeeze out more money from the insurers or owner/charterer of the vessel. The longer the rebuilding takes, the more the insurers or owner/charterer will have to dig deeper into their pockets.
Europeans are the only friends of the USA. However, they have been used as cannon fodder, which is following the script that Henry Kissinger narrated decades earlier - that fatality awaits whoever wants to be friends of the USA.
Sure, Taiwan and Philippines are now cordial and cuddling with the USA, but for how long? USA does not value friends, and only those who they can use to further their interest and continue to stay so for the USA to use will survive. Nothing more, nothing less.
How fortunate it is that today China is not a friend of the USA. In the USA's context, what are friends for anyway. The USA just use them as cannon fodder.
The truth is enemies of the USA, like North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Russia and China will probably survive longer than those friends of the USA. Ironic, isn't it?
Not to worry. China or Russia can be called friendless. Countries can continue to be called friends of the USA but be very careful of being so. There is a very heavy price to pay when the time comes.
People used to say that there are no permanent friends, only permanent enemies.
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