your last point is something i honestly cant understand in any way possible. how the fuck do you think that deng “course corrected” chinese foreign policy?? should i describe to you the kinds of crimes that the mujahedeen or the khmer rouge were committing? deng easily had the worst foreign policy of any chinese leader and the damages are still noticable to this day. ffs he even let the cia build spy networks within china for use against the soviet union.

Yeah I mean more towards the late 80s/90’s, China stopped becoming as blatant at this stuff; the support of khmer rogue remains a massive stain on China’s legacy though I agree, but I also think in reaction to it is why they are less keen to start sending guns to Palestine as they are aware of the lasting damage intervening in conflicts/acting like a hard power that had on themselves.

even today, after the xi jinping administration has thankfully alleviated some of the problems that i just described, the chinese economy still hasnt returned to a socialist framework.

It seems more or less where the USSR was in the late 70s, just with a more robust eco and less blood libel that the US is able to levy against it + more labor power.

while nowadays all the western stories about “chinese sweatshops” are usually complete bullshit, they were indeed accurate descriptions of labor conditions in the 80s, 90s and 00s.

Id argue this is more because of the economics levied onto them that they where a victim of really through stuff like the WEF leveraging their stagnating eco with population control measures and forcing them into that spot after the sino-soviet split due to otherwise being completely isolated on the world stage.

the economic policies of the cpc after mao led to the re-emergence of capitalist relations in china. by allowing private ownership of enterprises and encouraging market competition, dengs reforms created a class of capitalists who were able to accumulate significant wealth and power.

Which ones? I feel like you say this but without much to back it up, if there are capitalist classes above the CPC’s reach im not seeing it, at least in Xi’s current conception the highest class in China remains the worker elected party member due to the relations of violence and superstructre they have with it vs the lack of that inside China’s bougie class.

All things said I do agree with you in broad strokes, we shouldn’t with blind eyes support China, but I find it hard to levvy too much blame towards them for Isreal given the history and lessons they will have internalized with the failures of the Vietnam and Afghanistan interventions respectively, I think the upper cadre is doing a ‘China first, war through economics not physical force’ type of vibe. I dont know if we should want or expect China to act in similar ways to the USA where they do diplomacy through the bomb first.

While they could be doing more with Isreal and we should expect more they do still act as the bank for the axis of resistance id say, they just need to remain semi-neutral in order to not widen the alienation and narratives put forward by the west which would make their continued economic success harder, it is ultimately not much to do with them; they didnt start the war, and they have always diplomatically supported palestine and argued for the return of the golan heights to palestine.