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Can China build an anti-U.S. alliance?

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The US is building an anti-US alliance.

...you're not wrong.

Everything falling into China's hand.

China has the long term discipline that the US (and most Western countries) lack.

A key example that can help with this kind of alliance: their 'silk road' for the 21st century...

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-belt-and-road-china-i...

One of the perks of having an authoritarian system that takes unilateral action.

The US plays geopolitics very well regardless of who is in office. It's one of the reasons why you guys are the dominant force in the world. If anything, China is emulating the US.

To your example, seems like the real goal of the silk road is suckering nations into huge debts that they cannot hope to repay with massive concessions in case of default. Creation of client states is a key to American domination and the Chinese will emulate it with even more zeal.

That's in part due to the civil service, which could continue to engage in skillful geopolitics irrespective of current office-holders, because of the workhorse of skilled employees with loyalty to country rather than an administration. That has changed. Now the civil service is the "deep state" which must be eliminated and/or controlled. Except to see a reduction in US geopolitical skill due to this political attack upon the civil service.

The bigger question is, Can China build any alliance? Thus far, the one and only country in the world China has seen fit to form an actual alliance with is North Korea, but those relations are strained. At the moment, the PRC has territorial disputes with over a dozen neighbours.

Does China have good relations with any nearby country?

China has great relations with Pakistan. Perhaps not necessarily people-to-people relations, but certainly gov-to-gov.

Trump can, so I’d assume China can, too.

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