However, when we are currently blowing past so many climate turning points and the effects that climate change will have in the next few decades is already certain, China using this economic strategy when it could potentially be unleashing its foreign reserves to make massive green energy investments or grant money to countries trapped in IMF SAPs comes at the detriment of billions of people.

You’re extremely correct and just to double down on this I even think you’re somewhat putting it mildly at best. There is no damn long term strategy at all, otherwise how does someone even begin to square this with Xi’s reinforced commitment to opening up the economy, denouncing BRICS as “not a bloc” years ago, renouncing the cold war as being decidedly over, praising neoliberal imperialism(“globalization”) as a no alternative system we can only hope to improve somewhat?

Some people said e.g neolib thinkthanks that China had a “grand strategy” for the ME, go look at Atlantic, CIS, RAND etc etc…

Some Atlantic ghoul says this

Another factor is the Chinese have had a very clear understanding from the very beginning that not all Middle Eastern countries are in need of Chinese financing. They are more so clients of Chinese technology and Chinese products rather than the recipients of Chinese assistance. That is also another element that shapes Chinese thinking when they look at the Middle East: they see partners. They don’t necessarily see countries that are deeply in need of China’s help.

This is something you find in google in literaly 10s flat. Are their analysis right or wrong? Well just look at the damn results, look at the massive ghoulish disasters on the back of these clowns, financing Israel as some grand plan to stabilize the ME? Bringing KSA into BRICS? Patting themselves on the back for doing some BS money printing on their capital built on top of slaves? Building “green energy” shit while shaking hands with the US-Israel? Etc the list goes on and on.

There is no god damn long term strategy because their actions have zero coherent patterns besides doing some good which is immediately followed with something bad. Someone is more interested in using HSR stations a cudgel instead of addressing the massive failure in bringing any sort of progress to the class struggle or addressing the logical conclusion of dengs reformism and opening up in the current climate.

if there was we would’ve seen even tiny crumbles of this over these past 10-15 years, there was none. Maybe Pelosi could`ve been that moment, but yet another issue as I pointed many times, pro-China rethoric can only resort to smol bean excuses, unironicaly while doing military parade porn.

We’ve become the meme, its sad, but China is simultaneously very very powerful, but also riddled with problems, weak, surrounded and incapable of doing literaly anything etc… But wait there is a military parade now, so back to China is very powerful etc… but oh wait we noticed they made another deal with the US, back to China has no options, its pragmatic etc.

Ultimately we’re harsh because China is not acting in their self interest by abandoning the world and global south anti-imperialism. Making excuses and rationalizations shouldn’t come from a chauvinist perspective(“China owes us nothing” dipshits on twitter) unless you’re ready to admit the consequences will also fall on them for not acting now.