Somehow I doubt they’re eager to experience a repeat of Manchuria in 1945.

You’re completely ignoring the contradictions present within China itself here. China still has a capitalist class, and it is still in the primary stages of socialism with the workers having established a class dictatorship over capital, but China is far from abolishing existing relations right now. The collapse of the west is certainly a prerequisite for the transition to any higher stage of socialism, but it will be a long time before relations start meaningfully changing with China itself, let alone the rest of the world.

Let’s not forget that USSR also saw astonishing levels of development under Stalin. The stagnation started after Khrushchev reforms. However, as I noted earlier, China can’t just flip a switch and create some sort of a moneyless society. Dismantling capitalism start with worker ownership of the means of production, and there will be a a prolonged socialist stage where existing relations have not yet been abolished, and the only thing that’s different is which class holds power.

As Stalin correctly explains here, there will be surplus product in a socialist economy and, similarly, the commodity form doesn’t die overnight. Thinking that communism involves slamming a button titled “END CAPITALISM NOW” is just romantic idealist-slop.

when you definitely understand how bilateral trade works

Always important to remind people that none of these problems existed until the US attacked Iran completely unprovoked.

Are there cases of fascists treating others well that you’re aware of?

it’s certainly notable with the US threatening to invade Cuba and blockading it now.

indeed, the workers hold a lot of power here

You just gotta love how liberal ‘democracies’ are now openly doing what they fear mongered about China this whole time.

seriously, Iran has been incredibly restrained here

Given how western economies are doing right now, it’s a question how long the pedo oligarchs can keep doing this.

and the way things are going, the Turd Reich is soon to be on that list as well

Kind of hilarious to frame it as China relying on the US occupation of the region and then in the next sentence admit that it’s actually the US that’s the cause of the problems in the region.

The war also illustrates the limits of Chinese power. For decades, Beijing relied on U.S.-provided security architecture in the Middle East as it powered its economy on Gulf energy imports. Now it can do little to check U.S. military action in the region, and Xi’s call to open the Strait of Hormuz went unheeded.

and I’m here for it

the best possible outcome for the world

Same, it seems like they really thought that Americans would come to their senses at some point.

Exactly, Chinese scientists fleeing the US just have an easier time because China has massive science budget now. The scale of brain drain the US is experiencing is going to be disastrous. These are skills that will not be easy to rebuild in the future, assuming the US even survives as a state.

I guess they realized that would be rather unpopular and would be a pretext for the west to invade. Doing it in response to the US invading and losing, completely reframes it.

Wait, the implication here is that there are good corporations?