Anybody noticing how many diplomatic victories China is racking up these days?

Somebody at China's foreign ministry must be getting promotions.

It's been one diplomatic victory after another for the Chinese, While most of the attention is focused on China's growing military might and technological success, the diplomatic front is racking up successes, too.

David Goldman had an interesting tweet:

Whoops! There went Brazil. Whoops! There went Honduras. Whoops! Here goes Malaysia.

https://t.co/NZfJavjIGt — David P. Goldman (@davidpgoldman) March 30, 2023

The article references Malaysia's fairly new prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim, reputedly a Western-friendly leader, calling for China to step up its One Belt, One Road development initiative, which is focused on high-value infrastructure investment in developing countries, in exhange for perfect payments on the loans. Miss those and the Chinese become the world's biggest repo men for these nations' ports, roads, railroads, dams et al., taking control of "their" property as many third world countries have learned to their dismay. While the times are good, the Chinese investments are great, but don't look to them for mercy if one's country gets into monetary or fiscal trouble in a bad economy. At that point, they effectively take a nation's sovereignty as "compensation."

The bad press for this Chinese behavior ought to have sounded the death knell for the Belt and Road initiative, but that hasn't happened. Anwar is following the yellow brick road down in and calling for its expansion, almost as if he wanted China to take over more countries. That's disturbing indeed, given that it suggests a China alignment, not a U.S. alignment for Malaysia, a longtime reliable quiet ally.

It follows, as Goldman notes, the rather startling shift of Honduras from a democracy with close ties to Taiwan, to China. That’s most likely based on the fairly new socialist government’s search for a sugar daddy (like most of them in that region), drawing itself to Chinese One Belt, One Road investment, plus sticking it to gringo, the country that takes in their country’s neediest as illegal migrants, paying for their health care, education, and other expenses, plus getting a lot of criminals off their hands.

There also are the billions in migrant remittances. They’re hopping onboard the China train and reorienting to China, despite having a coveted free trade pact with the U.S. Who needs to align with the U.S. when the U.S. is giving it away for free?

There’s more, though, for China to notch on its lipstick case —

1) Iraq has created new ties with China over energy sales, and will in some transactions accept payment in Chinese yuan, not U.S. dollars.

2) In Afghanistan, Chinese ties in the wake of the disastrous U.S. pullout, couldn’t be warmer.

3) There’s also the Iran-Saudi Arabian peace deal, brokered by China, which makes China officially a peacemaker in the diplomatic community, the go-to nation for ending conflicts and giving each nation a piece of the spoils. That’s a tremendous loss of influence for the U.S.

4) And worse still, there’s the persistent coziness of China and Russia, which helps the former extend its war in Ukraine as Ukraine burns its army out and drains resources from the West.

By coincidence, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has said that he will be willing to look into a China-brokered peace deal, even against U.S. recommendation. Why would Zelensky be willing to annoy the U.S. with this move? Seems he recognizes a paper tiger.

China directly bribes the leaders of countries to do whatever it is China wants. These aren’t so much diplomatic victories as a chart of which leaders are getting an awesome retirement plan. Something similar happened when Russia invited African leaders to Moscow. Moscow uses the Wagner group to provide a protection racket to keep materials like diamonds and oil flowing for the leaders in exchange for a chuck of the profits. There is a surface level on these things, but the real action is out of sight. Not that the media can’t find these things. It’s like where does the lithium for electric cars come from? Well, a lot of it is mined by African children who don’t even have shoes. Somehow that never makes it into the news.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/01/Child-labour-behind-smart-phone-and-electric-car-batteries/#:~:text=The%20report%2C%20This%20is%20what%20we%20die%20for%3A,as%20seven%20and%20adults%20work%20in%20perilous%20conditions.

"Why would Zelensky be willing to annoy the U.S. with this move? Seems he recognizes a paper tiger."

He probably is looking for assurances of protection for dumping the US Deep State.
We'll know Europe is following suit if they start acknowledging the perp behind Nordstream, protests of the seminar poster on FR notwithstanding.

While I don't think the moves of countries to BRICs is part of some 'grand plan' by the US Deep State, actors within it will 'go along' thinking they will be well taken care of. As to that last bit--generally no one respects a traitor.

I’m sorry to say, but WE are the neo-marxists now.

the US deep-state now is in thrall to a very highly self-referencing, self-righteous woke/leftist ideology, which they promote around the globe by subversion and invasion, which of course also promotes the power of its own elites.

The only difference from the Soviet Union is the degree of death and oppression

Nations and people, both at home and abroad, are tired of it.

“Anybody noticing how many diplomatic victories China is racking up these days?”

Some of us do, since this is the REAL DAMAGE to the US, due to the OBSESSION the Neocons have with trying to ‘weaken Russia’.

But the media, and their Operatives here, just say UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE...and ignore the rest of the world, since it’s only UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE.

As Alex said, they need an Intervention.

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