People here are talking as if 80% of the Zionist entity's economy is reliant on China. At the end of the day, the Zionist entity is just an extension of the US. It's not a normal country that is subject to normal pressures a country would face. The US will simply foot the bill (or force their vassals to foot the bill) for whatever economic void that a potential Chinese economic sanction would cause.

What sustains the Zionist entity is weapons and the vast majority of weapons shipped to the Zionist entity is from the West, with the West even using sheepdipped "mercenaries" to murder Palestinians. China trading regular consumer goods and investing in infrastructure isn't the same at all. But once the Zionist entity has no more access to Western weapons, it is toast. The question then becomes:

• What action(s) would force the US to drop military support of the Zionist entity?

The actions would have to militarily and economically cost the US to the point where it has to drop the Zionist entity since we're well past the point of questioning whether the US sees the political costs as meaningful (it does not).

For military costs, you have direct military costs in the sense of Ansarallah attacking US ships, but there's also the intensification of current military fronts and opening of new military fronts. Quite simply, if the US is fighting too many wars at once, there will be triaging since it's geopolitically wiser to invest your resources in a few fronts that you can win versus spreading out your investments and losing them all. The IOF is an exceptionally incompetent and cowardly military, so the US has to spend more relative to other vassal militaries. I suppose there's also the case of domestic unrest that would require a military response. In the very unlikely possibility of violent domestic unrest in the US that's fueled by the US's support of the Zionist entity, triaging might lead to the US cutting support for the sake of restoring domestic stability.

For economic costs, I don't mean how many trillions of dollars of arms the US spends on the Zionist entity. I mean more like the Axis of Resistance targeting oil refineries in the Gulf states and destroying the economic wealth of the entire WANA region. There's also cutting access to crucial resources for the US. And the elephant in the room is of course China which has the means of waging direct economic warfare with the US.

For the US to drop the Zionist entity, I think these need to happen simultaneously:

1. The Axis of Resistance broadens the front and begin targeting comprador regimes. Perhaps Iran needs to directly wage kinetic warfare with the US. This will militarily and economically cost the US.

2. Russia intensifies the Ukrainian front, with Putin larping as the Putler carricature that liberal media portray him as. This will militarily cost the US.

3. China wages economic warfare against the US and do all the dedollarization stuff that Shipwreck chastises China for not doing. This will economically cost the US.

This is, of course, what a precursor for WWIII would look like. But perhaps people are just in denial about WWIII not happening and the bandaid should just be pulled off.

China's lack of meaningful response to Israeli crimes (and even continuing to trade with them) is probably their most inexcusable geopolitical offence. I know there's a sort of playing-both-sides thing here (as I believe China buys most of Iran's oil and is deepening trade with them all the time) but it's still abhorrent.

But even if you're a total psychopath who doesn't value human lives at all in geopolitical calculus - you see the mass graves of murdered children and go "whatever" - I still don't see any argument by which the modern-day Chinese state, with all its economic power, should continue having anything to do with Israel. Anything that Israel provides can and should be developed at home (and, to be honest, I can't imagine that anything that Israel provides them is a net good for humanity anyway). There's no reason to strengthen your direct world competitor in a hotly contested region by continuing to have ties with their genocidal outpost. At least with trading and interacting with Taiwan there's a calculation of exerting economic influence and not ceding ground to the US; there is literally no universe in all of god's creation in which Israel sides with China (and the anti-imperialist world more generally) over the US. Netanyahu will sooner defect to Iran than that happen.

The silver lining is that I suspect (though I don't have the figures on me) that China is economically and militarily helping out anti-Israeli forces relatively more than pro-Israeli ones. Still inexcusable.

Do nothing; win also means that you do nothing; others lost

Deng policy of never getting involved and keeping neutrality

see also: line go up

I share that same fear. With more and more libs like Li Qiang (Premier since 2023) gaining influence and private capital making a comeback since the return of Jack Ma, the CPC has not been immune to the spread of liberal brain rot and opportunism. @[email protected] has talked about this some time ago, and said they were losing faith in Xi's ability to curb private capital.