China is probably not yet ready to mount a complex air-sea invasion of Taiwan, with the mighty USA at its back. But it would have no real difficulties making land invasion into Russia.
Taiwan… not yet, too hard, but Russia is officially a GO opines our dunk tank subject, further free military advice for China can be found in the article
Geopolitics is just a map painting game to these people. When your borders are bigger thats good. Why would you not want your borders to be bigger? Graduated from Total War university with a PhD in Medieval 2 crusade strategies.
Got downvoted to hell on .world the other day for saying “maybe, hear me out, China doesn’t consider invasions because it’s not a militaristic, expansionist country?”
I think it probably could be fairly defined as either but I would also grant you that they could be considered to have much different goals as a whole than Western militaristic and expansionary endeavours and that, generally speaking, they balance those goals against a wider group or population than you would see the West doing.
Are they happy to expand into contested zones? Absolutely. Will they make shows of force to do so? Absolutely. If it means a protracted military solution though then that’s not going to happen, they’re not interested. They will attempt to find a commercial solution or they will just wait for an opportunity over a very long period of time.
Are they happy to expand into contested zones?
Isn’t that… the definition of contested zones? Like, Morocco contests Ceuta and Melilla, Spain contests Gibraltar… and there’s endless political tension from these issues.
They will attempt to find a commercial solution
Doesn’t this go against the definition of militarism?
Doesn’t this go against the definition of militarism?
“War, trade, and piracy together are a trinity not to be severed.”
90% of wars are for commercial interests, and the rest are sus too.
China isn’t going for a domination victory. They’re clearly after a science victory. That’s why they chose the communism government for the production bonus. It makes more sense to maintain their level 2 alliance with russia for extra gold to buy builder units that can speed up lengthy spaceport projects.
There is no other way to interpret this than as someone who’s been kept in sensory deprivation with only 4x games then asked to write about the real world.
Like dude should be writing articles critiquing the strategies of twitch streamers not governments irl
Why though?
Stupid idiot with no conception of anything beyond map painting games.
Why attack Russia? They couldn’t occupy it, you would need to erase the local language and replace it with Chinese which isn’t going to be something you get away with in current China not to mention the way the rest of the world would use this. Takeover or occupation is off the table. So what else? Install puppet that does what you want? Russia is already trading with China and doing what they want (mostly). What benefit does China get out of this? Unfair trading relationship? They’re communists, not capitalists, a colonial style unfair trading relationship like the west enters into by installing puppets everywhere in the world is not ideologically on the table for them.
It’s so fucking stupid. It really highlights how stupid these people are and that they really don’t understand anything at all.
Many Chinese (ultra)nationalists have long dreamed of retaking Vladivostok (Haishenwei), which is still one of the painful points along Sino-Russia relations and many see it as a great humiliation that must be avenged. The goal is to weaken Russia so much that eventually Russia has to cede Vladivostok back to China.
It will also cut Russia off from access to the Pacific (one of the most salient problems for both Russia and the USSR that have shaped their geopolitics in the Far East for more than a century) that could further subjugate Russia under China’s control.
This may not happen now but eventually China will want it back.
This reads like someone really trying to get the new player in their diplomacy game to make a huge misplay
