Today, Israel carried out an airstrike against the China-Iran railway, marking the first direct attack on a key strategic asset of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Usually China gives out strongly worded letters, but surely, attacking a Chinese asset should get China to start pursuing military actions of their own … right?
They don’t even have to go that far, just cut off trade to Israel with a strong demand, like Israel doesn’t get to have missiles or a standing military.
Yeah, this feels significant from a political standpoint. Your nation holding infrastructure for the Belt and Road might put you in the nazi’s target list, so how much is it worth if China isn’t willing to defend it/you when that happens?
A part of me wonders if the US government is behind this to see what China would do if poked; they get Israel to do the poking and see how China reacts
If the American government was behind it, I’m sure China would know, but any reaction against America itself without evidence would just make China look irrational which would only harm their warming relationship with Europe
This is far from the first time Chinese Belt and Road assets have been attacked. It’s usually not this directly by a state actor, usually the US uses terrorist proxies to do it, but they have definitely been doing this for years and years. Chinese engineers have been killed and Chinese built infrastructure has been bombed by groups that are very clearly American backed proxies, across Pakistan, Myanmar and more. So China understands the game being played.
Usually China gives out strongly worded letters, but surely, attacking a Chinese asset should get China to start pursuing military actions of their own … right?
I can’t imagine them just letting this go.
They don’t even have to go that far, just cut off trade to Israel with a strong demand, like Israel doesn’t get to have missiles or a standing military.
Yeah, this feels significant from a political standpoint. Your nation holding infrastructure for the Belt and Road might put you in the nazi’s target list, so how much is it worth if China isn’t willing to defend it/you when that happens?
China will take it like the good industrialists they are
A part of me wonders if the US government is behind this to see what China would do if poked; they get Israel to do the poking and see how China reacts
If the American government was behind it, I’m sure China would know, but any reaction against America itself without evidence would just make China look irrational which would only harm their warming relationship with Europe
I believe they will invade and occupy Tel Aviv by the end of the day
Nice
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This is far from the first time Chinese Belt and Road assets have been attacked. It’s usually not this directly by a state actor, usually the US uses terrorist proxies to do it, but they have definitely been doing this for years and years. Chinese engineers have been killed and Chinese built infrastructure has been bombed by groups that are very clearly American backed proxies, across Pakistan, Myanmar and more. So China understands the game being played.