Comments on: China needs to pick a side, and it just might pick the West

By: Duane Angell

Duane Angell — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 05:17:59 +0000

In reply to TerryToronto. You got that right.

By: TerryToronto

TerryToronto — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:22:58 +0000

This author is such an idiot I couldn’t finished reading it.

By: HsinYuan Hu

HsinYuan Hu — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:49:07 +0000

Complete BS propaganda,
your CHINESE names shows CLEARLY you know NOTHING about China🤣🤣
BTW, China tells the US & West to Fxxk Off

By: Charles Stubin

Charles Stubin — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 15:58:38 +0000

Sheer fantasy. China knows the US cannot be trusted, and never deal with China as an equal.

By: John

John — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 02:46:30 +0000

Another lack of common sense article. As I said before, who will be next if Russia is down? Next, does China wants to side with the West who are hundred of miles away and abandon her neighbour who she shares a vast boundary with, and has nuclear weapons?

If the author is playing chess, his thinking is that, his opponent will make moves that he wants him to move, and he will win eventually. Well, if China is relying on exports then the West (especially EU) doesn’t want to have access to an emerging economy with 1.3 billion market? If EU doesn’t rely on China for growth then they can access the US market. Good luck with that.

Having said the above, I worry about the standard of the students that were/are being taught by the author.

By: Robert Berke

Robert Berke — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 00:01:12 +0000

Lots of nonsense. First of all, there’s no way that Russia loses the war. It has already gained all the territory it sought. Secondly, China is not going to ally with the US and EU, with both not only economic rivals, but emerging enemies.

By: namwah3000

namwah3000 — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 21:10:27 +0000

This article is the most ridiculous piece of wishful thinking and misinformation I have seen for years. I don’t know what CM Tan was smoking but to say China will join the West that have invaded and colonized and oppressed her for centuries is silly. BRICS and SCO and the Global South are the future, not the colonists of the past.

By: utter confusion

utter confusion — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 19:02:27 +0000

all this trash comes from only one source ‘the conversation’ and every writer is based out of some two bit university in the UK

the crappier the university the more the bluster

By: bapakumenteri

bapakumenteri — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 15:48:55 +0000

smoking weeds article

By: Mark T.

Mark T. — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 15:37:29 +0000

wishful thinking post – china is economically, industrially, militarily [except for the no of nukes], diplomatically, financially etc etc the most powerful country in the world now and it doesnt have to pick a side – and if anything its the US that needs to pick a side between cooperating or not with china just to survive the self-inflicted, coming economic, social and financial carnage – moreover only fools believe russia has some nefarious design on europe but it would be fair that europe has been extremely threatening, aggressive and hostile towards russia …

By: Duane Angell

Duane Angell — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 14:11:43 +0000

Are you kidding me? China is the world’s largest economy. Biden wants to destroy that. If Russia falls, China will be next.

By: Galen Linder

Galen Linder — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 13:51:58 +0000

There is simply NO WAY IN HELL that China will allow Western (read US) pressure to force it to throw Russia under the bus. NO WAY!

By: William Tang

William Tang — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 12:19:58 +0000

BS. India did not pick a side; what do you say? Russia is nearer and has the natural resources and market for China.

By: giorgiosax

giorgiosax — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 09:29:35 +0000

If China will finally change side be shure Putin will be more then ready for it. Putin can be many things but he is a cold thinker.
He plays always the long game and NEVER trust anybody.
A real Macchiavelli kind of guy….

By: Michael Wicks

Michael Wicks — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 07:13:52 +0000

Risible.

By: Godzilla Mothra

Godzilla Mothra — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 06:12:38 +0000

It is stupid to think China will abandon Russia for the west. China will walk its own path, it is strong enough to do that. If China want to do business with Russia, the west will just need to accept it, simple as that. If the west want to cut ties with China over this, then the west will see what China whole support to Russia will look like.

By: Lars

Lars — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 06:09:01 +0000

Why is Asia Times publishing this? If Russia loses that will be the end of everything. Putin has promised nuclear Armageddon if Russia is defeated. Ukraine must be defeated and Russia objectives attained; demilitarization, denazification and neutralization of Ukraine. China will never abandon Russia, BRICS+ and SCO, that is just Western willful ignorance and arrogance. China prioritizes its security concerns over its economy. No more humiliation.