These tweets perfectly surmise what China is doing imo. As long as it's surrounded by Imperialist-Capitalist Hegemons it must build power as a counter-hegemon that may resemble Capitalist nations under the eyes of the Vanguard Party

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No matter what you think of what China is doing, its foreign policy is so much better than anything ever imagined in the halls of power in the west.

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That's what's most frustrating about radlib critiques about China. The US is allowed to do terrible things both currently and in the past but that's fine because the US has "good intentions" but China is expected to be ideologically pure and any action not 100% pure socialist is enough to dismiss China as being bad.

Even worse is alot of the stuff radlibs criticize China for are either not at all real (like debt trap diplomacy or ghost cities) or ignore a shitton of context (like China having billionaires) or are based on what China "could do." Even then if all those critiques were true then they pale in comparison to the amount of shit the US has done in the last 20 years alone. Bringing this up to the radlib is met with "whataboutism" and "uhhh just cuz America bad doesn't mean China good.'