Why doesn't China intervene in the Middle East like the US does?
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Never interrupt your enemy while they're making a mistake.
Art of war
No, that’s Napoleon
Sun Tazoo. You should read it Chrissy hehe 🤘
For the same reason no one is intervening
None of these answers are correct
China doesn’t have any interest, nor investment to have any geopolitical interest in the middle east like the united state does. The United States for better or worse has an ally (Israel) that has a bunch of unfriendly neighbors bordering them, and fought an 20 year anti insurgency war. China didn’t have 9/11 and China isn’t allies with Israel.
The United States (for better or worse) has had many “situations” (let’s put it that way) for the past 20 years.
This isn’t to say “china is wholesome chungus” and “America bad” and “China good”
Read and look up what China is doing with the south Chinese sea
The south Chinese sea is kinda equivalent to Americas Middle East
Geopolitics is a very, messy, complicated, thing that is (usually) pretty nuanced and not black on white contrary to what Reddit believes.
Also look at what China is doing with Africa.
Of course; it’s not the same as a 20 year long anti insurgency war like what America was involved in. But a narrative that this thread is trying to peddle that America is the only global superpower that gets involved in foreign affairs, and China just “minds its own business, sticks to itself” is misinformed at best, blatant propaganda at worst.
It’s also just not at easy to project force like that…yes China is undeniably an ascendant power but even now they don’t have the mastery and extensive logistics network the United States has. Really there are no other nations that can do the kind of interventionism the United States can as a result. Not at the same scale.
Yea very few countries can project force of any significance across the globe. China certainly can’t with their navy.
America sends soldiers, China sends bankers. The Belt and Road initiative is China using economic power to gain control of critical resources around the world, while making themselves look good to local populations by doing massive infrastructure projects. The US will barely take care of its own infrastructure, let alone help anyone else.
I would add that China also plays a modern version of the old hegemony strategy in a lot of places where it doesn't have a direct interest as you mentioned. They just buy influence, build relationships (debts), and establish their dominance the slow way like mafia-style. They're very busy doing that in Africa and South America right now.
Hell they’re buying land in major metros all over the world.
First answer I found that didn't feel like anti-American propaganda.
Yeah bcos it’s the other type of propaganda, the one you’ve already bought into. It confirms perspectives you already hold.
I'd be an unfriendly neighbor too if the duchebag next door kept inching his way across my yard for the past 70 years
China has no expeditionary capacity ( aircraft carriers and marines )
China has no network of military bases
China has relatively poor military history.
US has no history of invasion of their mainland and has relatively uniquely isolated. This means that US population is rather bloodthirsty due to knowing that reprecussions of their campaigns is next to none.
China uses economic influence around the world rather than military.
China lacks puppet states to use as fodder. ( Occupation of Iraq had how many partipicipants ? )
They're just focusing on taking over the regions around them
The writing on the wall is already there.
That being said, even though they are still salty about it, their failed invasion of Vietnam in 1979 really broke their confidence. That was a wild time for sure; while Communist Vietnam was busy invading Communist Cambodia, Communist China thought they could surprise with an attack from the rear but failed.
For anybody who like me had missed that whole bit, the 1979 Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia is sometimes called "Vietnam's Vietnam". They repeated many of the exact mistakes that had made the Americans lose in Vietnam: they managed to take and hold most major cities while their invasion force got slaughtered in the jungle by fiercely motivated local guerillas. This went on for 10 years until the war's unpopularity was causing so much dissent back home that they withdrew. Even though Vietnam did oust the Khmer Rouge from power from most of the country, most of them came out of hiding and went right back into politics as soon as the Vietnamese left and most of them were pardoned and saw no punishment for their genocidal activities.
China doesn’t like countries meddling in their affairs and doesn’t like seeing other countries do it. On the other hand, they also think Taiwan, Tibet, etc are part of their country.
China actually has a VERY STRONG INTEREST in the middle east, actually, and they have been increasing their influence in that region for years. They mainly focus on diplomatic and economic influence however. That's not to say they wouldn't intervene militarily if if they could, but being able to exert military power anywhere in the world within a short time is something that only the US is uniquely capable of.
So, to answer your question, they do intervene. And regardless of all the pros and cons of doing so militarily, they really don't have the same kind of capacity to do so as the US does anyways.
china's got its own vibe, focusing on trade and not wanting to get too entangled in messy conflicts. plus, they're probably trying to avoid the whole "forever war" situation the US is in.
Playing the long game. Increasing soft power around the world. Increasing stable business deals as the US declines.
They're smarter.
China doesn’t really have expeditionary forces to attack another country- it’s why it’s taking them 15+ years to invade Taiwan. That being said, they do have their fingers in a lot of pies, but it’s mostly in Africa and they more so do the blackmail game than the overt violence game.
They are following Napoleon's advice: Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
They do. They just use soft power. Money, technology transfer, expert assistance on large projects, educational exchanges, etc. Increases their influence and no one starts shooting at them for being imperialistic douchebags.
They do business with them and trying to build relationships.
While we had a business with them but we are destroying a relationship just to get people's mind off the Epstein file.
China does not have the ability to project military power much past its borders 2) China has never had a desire to and uses soft/economic power more effectively than the US or other western powers
They intervene a lot in Africa you just don't hear much about it.
Because they aren’t warmongering cunts like the USA is
They worked out economic dependence is better than violence, especially when backed by the ability to undertake that violence. They are buying up the world and having whole countries indebted to them for critical infrastructure. Same outcome, world domination, less war.
Lmao they literally are hostile to far more countries than the US. Just because their attacks are economical, or political, or proxied, doesn't mean they are not attacks, don't be an idiot.
does it look like anyone is benefiting from US middle east intervention?
Because unlike Trump and his braindead, crayon-eating cult, China actually understands the importance of "soft diplomacy"
Why on earth would any nation want to become involved in a war in the mid east ?
China in 5000 years of history has never been interested in conquest but does want to “influence” their immediate neighbors. A hegemony, not a tyranny.