Are you saying that China is working through a “nearby ” proxy country like Mongolia that it could actually control? Or even Russia?
“Are you saying that China is working through a “nearby ” proxy country like Mongolia that it could actually control? Or even Russia?”
Yes. With the Chinese it’s all about face and image. They want, say the Australian government to crackdown on dissidents and if they don’t then the Chinese enact a punishing tariff, on, say seafood. Suddenly, the amount of seafood Australia exports to Mongolia goes from zero to whatever they originally exported to China. Weird, eh?