The benefits to China are real even though less mentioned, with North Korea remaining an ally to balance the threat from Japan and South Korea; Vietnam becoming a highly lucrative source for Chinese investments and trade and Iran providing the energy that China needs with China's support for its current war. The greatest benefit accruing to China must be the Iranians now selling its oil in Yuan, a currency that even India is using to pay for Iranian oil according to some reports. That truly helps in BRICS's de-dollarization agenda.
Honestly, these wars have made China stronger, more resilient and made the Chinese people much more patriotic than ever. Why should they not be thankful for having a standard of living that some in the West are envious of - like low cost of living and eradication of poverty. The transformation of China has been earth moving, while the failure of the democratic system creates more poverty despite the dubious claims trotted out by the USA's propaganda machine and its tributaries - the MSM.
Let us take the trade war, which forced China to diversify its import of agricultural products from many other countries. It was to wake up China to the folly of placing its National Security too much by relying on one particular country for its food products. That diversification has paid dividends for the Chinese and is now smooth sailing that would otherwise not have happened so abruptly.
The tariff war has again strengthened the Chines resolve to move more trade to the Global South countries and away from the USA. China had been preparing for this and is building more bridges with countries willing to work with China. After all, Trump has taken the whole world hostage with his tariffs and countries are trying to find ways to mitigate the blackmailing and the stigma of having to kiss Trump's ass.
More than ever, the technology war has turbo-charged China's move into being more self-sustaining in all matters relating to technology, such as chips, EVs, batteries, solar panels, wind turbines, weapons upgrading and most of all its education system. After all, China has all the rare earth elements to do it and is not held hostage by outside sources for this particular and most important material that others are constrained. Thanks to the USA move against Huawei that started this revolution, China is well on its way to be self-sustaining in most fields in the technology sector, which it would otherwise still be held hostage.
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China already said it is prepared for any war with the USA. Bring it on.
Everybody is saying that USA and Israel are running out of weapons. Most of them are saying that USA weapons have been exhausted fighting the first 16 days of the Iran war. This is not propaganda from Iran but is inordinately clear on the ground, though never ever admitted. USA military bases in the Middle East have run out of defensive weapons to protect, which clearly is why they are sitting ducks in the face of cheap Iranian drones and missiles.
Furthermore, the fact that Israel is negotiating a ceasefire with Lebanon is no co-incidence. It is a sign of shortage of weapons, needing to regroup and rearm, perhaps waiting for the outcome of the other side of the war between USA and Iran, hoping the USA could decimate Iran and prevent the supply of further weapons to Hezbollah. That outcome could be pivotal to Israel's further move in Southern Lebanon.
Replenishment of weapons does not work like building models using Lego bricks. It took probably years to stockpile and could be exhausted in a matter of weeks. The movement of interceptors, from Ukraine to Israel earlier and from South Korea to the Middle East weeks ago, tells the whole story of how problematic it has become in producing them, more so with China now clamping down on rare earth elements. Telling the world that such movements are just strategic pivoting is no more than a cock and bull story.
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