Why Doesn't China Do Global Conflict

In the comments I received a question unrelated to the video but an important question nevertheless. It related to a certain conflict going on in a region with thousands of years of biblical history and I'm going to assume you all know where I mean because I'm certain if I mention it, then the AI that YouTube uses will either remove the content, accuse me of something I haven't done and will in whatever way the system works, work against me for having an opinion on the matter that goes against the narrative - although I see with some satisfaction that in places like Australia and the UK, the narrative is shifting. There's still a long way to go but there's no doubt many politicians are distancing themselves from their previous stance on the matter.

So, Naija Hakeem asked me this:

The question I have for you is unrelated,

If people around the world trust Chinese relationships. How do you think the attitude of China which by every metric is a superpower should be to global injustices. Simply put, how do we align with Chinese leadership of they don use there considerable power to create and environment for justice, a justice inclusive of nations and laws.

It's a good question from Naija because for about 70 years we've all been bombarded with rhetoric about how not to trust the Chinese - however, the United Nations have never had a reason to censure China, the International Court has never done so, the World Trade Organisation and the World Health Organisation are happy to work with China, as are all countries in ASEAN, RCEP the Eurasian Economic Union, most of Latin America, all of Africa barring one country, Eswatini, which still recognises Taiwan as One China and much of Asia - it's actually getting harder and harder to hide the truth, the government of China may nor be perfect but I personally have not been able to find fault with them in all the years I've been studying, researching and living in China, so they must be pretty good - they also have a 95% satisfaction rate inside their own country, they've lived the entire nation out of poverty and are now helping neighbouring countries do the same, they negotiated peace between Saudi and Iran, they host Pan African congresses where the leaders of 53 countries (there are only 54 in Africa) all attend and, if you read their State Council Information Office bulletins, which are easy to do, as they are in English, you'll see that they host different leaders of countries every single week - none of this is told to us by Western media.

So, as I said in my reply, it's a matter of trust - do you trust Western governments and Western media to tell you the truth - or will you research the above information and try to prove me wrong - I even offered the challenge, that I hope they do because an inability to prove me wrong will lead you to the answer.

What the question was really about was the region I already mentioned, Unfortunately, many people, including me, need to self-censure on platforms such as YouTube as they will block suspend or even close accounts that mention certain words so I'm going to give the answer to the unasked question: Why won't China, a genuine superpower, and probably one of only two in the world that could take on the USA and it's proxies and win, involve itself militarily in the events there in order to bring them to a close, because we all agree, no matter what side of the fence we're on, it needs to stop, only a psychopath or a madman would think otherwise.

Here's my answer, of course I don't speak for the Chinese government, nor can I even assess what their official stance on it is, I can only give an opinion based on y knowledge of what China's governance is really like, rather than what it's perceived to be like.

There is no doubt at all that China has the military means, the international support and the credibility to do something, there's also no doubt that hundreds of thousands of people there would wish them to but, in my opinion, there is no doubt at all that they will not intervene militarily.

South Africa has taken Israel to the International Criminal Court and that court is now being sanctioned by the USA. The USA is very much an integral part of what's happening there. Trump attempted to humiliate the South African President in the White House this week and, there's no doubt in my mind that he succeeded in not only humiliating himself with his lack of knowledge, he also succeeded in alienating millions of Africans, not just in South Africa but every country there. These two things are linked and are a part of the story. It seem perfectly ok for the USA and its proxies to violate international laws, breach internationally recognised conventions and even flout the fundamental basis for the existence of the United Nations, tat of non interference in the sovereignty of others, and get away with it all so far. And this is what China must overcome.

Taking China's military into the region wouldn't just be an escalation, it would be in breach of international law and it would make China as bad as the USA internationally, it would mean that China can't be relied upon to follow laws if it felt those laws don't suit them, and that's exactly what is making the USA such a pariah in the Global South right now. China is the beacon, it's the one superpower that doesn't invade, doesn't interfere, doesn't coerce or unfairly influence the Global South

It would also be a reach of the UN Charter and that's something China hasn't done in its history. China applies to and abides by the laws and conventions it has ratified - So, superpower or not, even if China were to enter the fray, it would make matters worse. In the short term, there might be benefit for people in the region but I doubt even that would be true - unless the UN does something about this, then China's hands are tied. China has a huge military but, as the so called experts keep pointing out, it doesn't have seaborne troop carriers, it doesn't have airborne refuellers, it doesn't have the capacity to renew supply and logistics over great distances and the experts criticise China for these shortcomings but they are not shortcomings at all, China's military is defensive, they need supply chains and airborne refuellers to operate around the globe but they don't have them because they only exist to defend China, not to exert power. So, if China were to enter a war zone on the other side of the world, they would almost certainly not be able to win and that would not only make them more vulnerable at home, it wouldn't help the people of the region when they need it most.

I may be a little too cynical here but if I were to say it's something the US would love China to attempt, I don't think I'd be far off the mark, the real experts, not the fools cited by Fox news and the like, understand that China's capabilities are defensive and to go on the offensive to prevent further deaths in a region so far from home would be the dream of a Pentagon, they would know that China is weakened at home and escalate over places like Iran, which is a friend to China, Taiwan, which is a part of China and Russia which is an ally of China.

Honestly, I don't have a solution. If anyone does, they should put it into the public forum and ask China to consider it but China entering the fray is definitely not the answer, that solution has the potential of subjecting the world to a terrible fate that would be as bad as, but much wider than the issues those people are now facing.

So, if people ask you why China isn't engaging, point out that they are, they are dropping humanitarian assistance, they have hosted the leaders, they've negotiated peace in other parts of the Middle East, or West Asia as it should rightly be called but they don't have the military capacity to send troops around the world in the way that the USA does and, if they were to try it, they would not win, the situation would be worse not improved and the entire world, as unstable as it is right now, would be even less stable.

If there is more that China can do, I don't know what it is and I'm sure, behind the scenes, they're doing everything they believe they can do too.