China's Geopolitical Reality

The greatest question for China is not how to defeat the US and the West, that is a foregone outcome short of nuclear war, but how to manage the decline of the West in such a way that a world war is not the result. With such an aim, the Chinese Party-State must make the kind of very hard pragmatic decisions that are the anathema of the utopian socialists who inhabit much of the Western “left” academia and “left” commentariat. The primary duty of the Chinese Party-State is to the Chinese people, not the world. Just as much as the primary duty of the Soviet Communist Party was to the Soviet Union, and the primary duty of the Russian state is to the Russian people.

Up to the early 2010s, China was quite happy to trade with the West and buy high technology goods such as microprocessors from it as the nation’s resources were directed to other areas. With the US “pivot to Asia” and Western technology sanctions designed to knee cap China’s development, and even destroy such companies as Huawei and ZTE, a change in that orientation was forced upon China. The Western proxy war against Russia has also forced a tightening alliance between Russia and China, as has the Western support for the independence movement in China’s rogue province. The attempts to subjugate Iran, as well as Russia, display the Western wishes to strip away the defensive alliances that China enjoys.