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On January 3, the United States blatantly launched large-scale military strikes against Venezuela, forcefully seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, and took them out of the country. It claimed that it would “run” Venezuela and even did not rule out launching a second round of military operations on an even larger scale. China is deeply shocked by and strongly condemns the unilateral, illegal, and bullying acts by the United States.
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Venezuela is an independent sovereign state with every right to defend its sovereignty and national dignity. Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are important forces in maintaining world peace and stability and promoting global development and prosperity, and they have every right to independently choose their development paths and partners.
No country can act as the world’s police, nor can any country presume to be the international judge. China firmly supports the Government and people of Venezuela in safeguarding their sovereignty, security, and legitimate rights and interests. We firmly support regional countries in upholding the status of Latin America and the Caribbean as a zone of peace.
We demand that the United States change its course, cease its bullying and coercive practices, and develop relations and cooperation with regional countries on the basis of mutual respect, equality, and non-interference in internal affairs. China stands ready to work with regional countries and the international community to strengthen solidarity and cooperation, uphold fairness and justice, and jointly safeguard peace and stability in Latin America and the Caribbean.
I don’t think that’s their plan. And I don’t mean that as a negative against China.
But if it was their plan, I’m skeptical that a strategy that’s so cold hearted and devoid of solidarity would lead to communism.
Building communism is unfortunately not a question of who has the warmest heart or who sticks their neck out the furthest for others.
The culture you build and foster in your apparatus has very real affects on the people who take power and lead. If the prevailing attitude is a selfish cold pragmatism, how long until the rot sets in the party apparatus?
Socialism in one country is a pillar of Marxism leninism. You are conflating the relationship the CPC has with non Chinese people with how they are internally. The culture internally in China certainly does not feel like selfish cold pragmatism as an outsider who has spent time there. Everywhere I looked, people were warm, friendly and generous. Even the cops and military people I interacted with were very friendly.
And again, China has and continues to do a lot in solidarity for the world. They aren’t trying to start ww3 though, which is a gamble as far as outside intervention goes
Until they have Taiwan again and probably even more of a collapse in Japan, it is quite dangerous for their #1 priority, their citizens, if they escalate with the US while surrounded by US bases
Socialism in One Country doesn’t mean it’s cool or desired to ignore the rest of the world. It’s not that exporting ideology and support abroad is bad in all cases, or that it is inherently negative.
It is that the revolution needs to be build and nurtured at home, before such things can be done. It’s about stabilizing the gains, so you don’t lose everything. China has been growing steadily stronger for decades. They are the economic hegemon of the world. This is not the same situation that Stalin and Trotsky split over. Not at all.
Exporting the revolution doesn’t work. The USSR tried their best, and look where it got them. They were also a super power.
You can’t force socialism on people. It has to come from the inside. Any socialist influence from China in third world countries will be ammo for reactionaries and imperial powers to rile up the populace of said countries.
China had to go through their own revolution to solidify their ML government. Other countries will have to do the same.
Change will not come from above. Or outside.
If you really think China has ignored the world you aren’t qualified to speak on this subject. No investigation, no right to speak
You have to be cold hearted to win a war. How many more people might have been saved if che didn’t die in battle? If we look at the reverse how many people would we say increasing the risk of capitlaism winning again is worth?