China's leaders outsmarted the USA by first becoming stronger militarily and economically in order to withstand the expected attempts by the USA to put China down. Chinese leaders followed Deng by hiding its strength and humbly kept up its industrialization agenda. During that period, the USA was preoccupied with its wars against Iraq and Afghanistan and occupying itself with fighting terrorism. After all, over the decades, Chinese people were still seen as harmless and incapable of progress. After all, Chinamen can only be expected to be chefs and laundrymen, or so they think. It was to give China much breathing space to move forward uninterrupted.
The icing on the cake was Russia moving towards China over attempts by USA and the West to turn Russia into a stone age country. Their combined military power and the formation of BRICS gave both countries much needed beef to keep the USA at bay. By the time the USA woke up seeing China rising, it was too late with China already locking itself into becoming the factory of the world and exporting all over the world.
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More people around the world are having more confidence with China than with the USA, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. Pew Research Center is based in Washington DC, USA, so not sure whether it will end up like that survey on global happiness index that puts China at the top spot.
ASEAN was also reported to have favored China in the region over the USA. You can be sure that there are now sinister moves by the USA to turn this around, particularly in Indonesia and Vietnam. The USA is doing its dirty work of using NGOs to move the ground against China in Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and perhaps even in Cambodia, a long-time ally of China.
It has been reported that Thailand is the one country that has remained a loyal partner with China, among all the ASEAN states, over the centuries, despite all the effort to wean it away from supporting China. All those Red Shirt and Yellow Shirt disturbances are just examples of who is working the ground to ferment unrest in Thailand. Fortunately, Thailand's military is still strong enough to keep the peace. On top of that the Thai Monarchy has been able to lend a helping hand to keep the country united.
Recent elections by certain political parties have raised the issue of eroding the influence of the Monarchy and we know why and for what reason. Getting rid of the Monarchy is the first step to end its influence. Reports have circulated that such political parties calling for the end of the Monarchy are supported and cultivated by outside forces to affect a regime change in Thailand by marginalizing the power of the military and the Monarchy.
Thailand has been trying to enact laws to require foreign NGOs to disclose their sources of funding and they have raised a hue and cry, knowing that such a law will cripple their financial support. I do not know whether that move has been successfully implemented. Most political parties knew that this would keep foreign support at bay for trying to interfere in Thailand's internal affairs. The Thai Military Government knew this all along.
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