Estonia warns of “silenced world dominated by Beijing”

Pursuing “realpolitik” strategies to “divide and conquer” the global political landscape in order to further their own agenda is hardly unique.

What’s nice to see is it being said out loud so that the narrative can begin to change.

Right now when any country acting against China’s interests, anywhere in the world (including the domestic affairs of the country taking action), it is “decried” by the Chinese government as with whatever is the most relevant negative connotations, often it’s simply accused the country of being “rascist”... for bigger problems it begins a long game of threats, culminating in China beginning to exert economic leverage such not by traditional means but by non traditional ones such as internal marketing campaigns for local alternatives to other countries goods, using their government control of their internal economy to change demand in a way that’s most favourable to whatever leverage they are trying to exert.

China is economically a very big country and the level of control they have makes them to use a strategy game term, an effective player of “micro” intensive strategies whereas most other countries can’t play the game of realpolitik at that level. Fortunately smaller countries can react to things more quickly and are to continue the metaphor, better able to play “micro” both because they have less resources to split their focus on (less sprawling government departments and militaries) and have less territory to try and defend (smaller nations in terms of area).