> get along with China better.

This will probably never happen. All countries are rivals, and the semblance of cooperation is really just the manifestation of a power imbalance.

China grew into their big boy pants and can hold their own on the international stage. They have no need to be cooperative because they are in the International Superpower Club. Their strategic ambitions do not align with those of their rivals, and they are strong enough to not need to play nice anymore.

Now that the US has also dropped their visage of being the benevolent world leader, there's even less reason for China to pretend to be cooperative. At this point, it's a matter of who is more apt to invade your country, US or China? And you buy weapons from the other one.

Maybe we see more "cooperation" between China and the EU or South America. But that will be entirely because those regions are under duress.

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subw00f 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, all those countries China has invaded really shows how apt they are to do that.

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lanthissa 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

yeah they really shouldn't be blockading their neighbors while claiming every country around them is their sphere of influence and openly interfering in their allies domestic politics while leveraging their size to force other countries to accept asymmetric economic deals...

	▲	DasIch 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How is this different from what the US is doing? See Monroe Doctrine for example and recent events concerning Venezuela?

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energy123 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Please spare us. China invaded Vietnam to protect Pol Pot while he was mass killing millions of innocent civilians. They have territorial disputes with over 10 countries, which they've been unable to decisively act on because those neighbors either have nukes (India) or are protected by a more powerful country (US). Not because their government is some benevolent entity. They're basically an authoritarian dictatorship that's kind of cornered at the moment (like Saddam after the Gulf War) but would kill a bunch of people and expand if the US wasn't around.

	▲	spaceman_2020 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		China has resolved a lot of its border disputes already. The border disputes with Kazakhstan, Krgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Russia, Vietnam, Tajikstan have all been resolved
	▲	throwaway290 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They do it in the sea already. Just look at that nine dash line...

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kulahan 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You don’t think NZ and Aus are truly good friends?

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throwaway290 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For all the talk about how they are an equal player on the international stage PRC is still a developing country by their own assessment and WTO.