China cannot face these sorts of sanctions in 2022 because World cannot afford to impose them. This country is the factory of the World right now thus the World needs to find a Plan B & C first, before being ready for anything like this. We might reach there eventually but it will take years. Not one or two, close to decade at best.
You are correct that it would be extremely painful for the west to impose these sorts of sanctions on China, grinding some industries to a halt temporarily. Far worse than doing it to Russia. But baby steps are already being taken to start weaning ourselves off of China's teat, through funding of domestic chip fabrication facilities and the movement of a fair amount of manufacturing from China to Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, and other countries that has already happened to avoid the tariffs of the past few years.
If the west was put in a position where it had to sanction China severely, that could become the engine of a mass pullout. Plans B and C don't necessarily have to be in place already for that to happen, though it would obviously be far more painful if they weren't.
The CCP is something real and it does have foundations, structure and power. What I want to say it's that there's a rigid political system. With some sort of checks and balances. It's not a one man's show. It wouldn't go that far if it was.
But hasn't Xi consolidated power more completely than any other modern Chinese leader since Mao? What serious challenge would he face from within his own party at this point?
To conclude, for its magnitude, this is a very peaceful country. They navigate very carefully & quite respectfully in the foreign affairs.
By stealing IP left and right, requiring foreign companies to partner with local companies influenced by the CCP that have >50% stake in the outcome, offering to build ports in Africa and south Asia and pump business there in the short term, then pull the rug out from under them so they can default on the loan and China gets a free military base in return? By infiltrating Europe's cellular infrastructure so they have another vector to exploit for surveillance and cyber warfare in the future? By making huge financial investments in foreign ventures and then using that leverage to force foreigners to censor ideas the CCP doesn't like and apologize for making statements the CCP doesn't agree with? Sorry, your comment reeks of propaganda.
There are no coups, or any kind of military or any intervention to achieve influence.
What would you call reneging on Hong Kong's Basic Law over two decades early? The rope-a-dope strategy with foreign ports? The institutionalization of IP theft that gets repurposed into their own military? The institutionalization of mass surveillance, including data from foreign sources? They may not be firing guns on a regular basis, but they're doing everything else. Not to mention the war they're fighting against their own ethnic minorities, their condoning and possible participation in the human organ trade, and other lovely moral victories.
I understand people are biased about it, but just count how many wars /coups West started /backed the last 100 years and how many China did and you may see that it's not that bad after all. Or the last 20.
I'll gladly put the west's last 100 years up against China's any day of the week on who's improved the quality of life for humanity overall.
Sorry, I didn't mean to derail the topic.
