On the one hand, hooray for supporting the development of infrastructure in Africa and stuff. On the other hand, booooo for being a top trading partner with the Zionist Entity, and selling drones to Indonesia, and all that.

So what the Hell do you make of it all! Like I get that there's this term called "realpolitik" which is somehow relevant, but I'd like a longer explanation than just one word. Like how does the good and the bad fit together at its core?

You could certainly write tomes about this topic — many people have done exactly that — and maybe I'm being a bit incurious to expect someone to serve me a quick answer on a silver platter instead of diving into as many articles and PDF books as I can get my hands on... But I'm also just kind of tired of having such extremely underdeveloped views on the most populous AES state and country in general, after I came to unlearn or mistrust whichever views I'd had on China previously.

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[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t disagree since it seems that way with a lot of their actions but I wonder how you explain some things like the recent donations to Cuba to help build their energy infrastructure?

Stuff like that makes me think at least a portion of the party would like to do more but they’re careful since they still feel they have a bit to go before more confronting global capitalism more directly. Hopefully we see more things that to start pushing global socialism since we’re kind of on a time clock with climate change.

[–] Joncash2@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

That's realpolitiks for China. If they see there's a political and financial advantage to donating, they'll do it. But that's super not transparent and anyone saying they know why is lying or would be arrested for leaks.

My theory is Cuba has a lot of fertile land that isn't properly maintained. China wants food, it makes sense to support them to get their export values up for Chinese consumers. Also, China owns habanos sa.