It then shows China’s self-crit and divergence in policy from the US.
Did they self-crit? I know there’s an interview where deng, regarding supporting pol pot, said something like “well we didn’t know what was going on there but we had to fight vietnamese (soviet) hegemony throughout southeast asia”, but idk if the at the time or current chinese foreign ministry would say they did anything wrong or would do anything different regarding the broader sino-soviet proxy-wars because, to them, their most threatening enemy was the USSR (right next to them) not the US and their strategy worked. Though obviously they behave much differently nowadays
They’ve diverged from US policy in part because their common enemy defeated itself before china really re-approached it in a internationalist manner (that is in taking joint action with the ussr), and now china itself is the enemy.
Totally fair I might be being too generous here. It might just be material conditions changed. I would hope they’d disavow that shit, but I’ll admit I’m not read on Chinese perspectives on these choices.
Did they self-crit? I know there’s an interview where deng, regarding supporting pol pot, said something like “well we didn’t know what was going on there but we had to fight vietnamese (soviet) hegemony throughout southeast asia”, but idk if the at the time or current chinese foreign ministry would say they did anything wrong or would do anything different regarding the broader sino-soviet proxy-wars because, to them, their most threatening enemy was the USSR (right next to them) not the US and their strategy worked. Though obviously they behave much differently nowadays
They’ve diverged from US policy in part because their common enemy defeated itself before china really re-approached it in a internationalist manner (that is in taking joint action with the ussr), and now china itself is the enemy.
Totally fair I might be being too generous here. It might just be material conditions changed. I would hope they’d disavow that shit, but I’ll admit I’m not read on Chinese perspectives on these choices.