| ▲ | bborud 15 hours ago | |
The difference is desperation. Putin was facing instability and was afraid of ending up like Khadafi. He needed a war. Xi is not facing those challenges. He wants Taiwan, but the Chinese play long games so he can wait. | ||
| ▲ | mschuster91 3 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> Xi is not facing those challenges. He is facing other challenges, a lot of chickens are coming home to roost - chiefly the demographic collapse, the inevitable result of the one-child policy, but also the rise of wages leading other countries to be the outsourcing target, decades of selling out nature / the environment, a crashing real estate sector, brain drain... | ||