That would be a mistake in the long term. Erdogan is a two faced snake but he will not be there forever and Turkey is still one of the weakest links in the imperialist bloc. Similar to Saudi Arabia, it pursues its own goals which sometimes align with the greater western imperialist project, but it is also fickle and as such a potential candidate for re-alignment. Such a geopolitical re-alignment however can only happen as a consequence of the larger global economic realignment, and that is already underway as the western share of the global economy will continue to decrease in favor of China and the global south. To take such impulsive, punitive actions as sanctions would derail that entire long term project for which China has worked so hard.
The best revenge is served cold, China will have the last laugh if it holds the course and does not allow the US to provoke it into making a mistake. We know that the current trajectory is one in China’s favor due to how panicked the imperialists are and how aggressively they are trying to do anything they can to change the equation. As for these CIA funded terrorists, the best way to ensure that they cannot cause trouble for China is to continue building up Xinjiang and the Central Asian region economically so that their ideology finds no fertile ground there.
I hope you are right but this assumes what doesn’t happen first is that Erdogan being a dog of the west doesn’t turn the extremist dogs on China first. Sometimes you have to pre-empt things before they turn for the worst, i.e. Syria. These scumbags are not to be trusted.
That would be a mistake in the long term. Erdogan is a two faced snake but he will not be there forever and Turkey is still one of the weakest links in the imperialist bloc. Similar to Saudi Arabia, it pursues its own goals which sometimes align with the greater western imperialist project, but it is also fickle and as such a potential candidate for re-alignment. Such a geopolitical re-alignment however can only happen as a consequence of the larger global economic realignment, and that is already underway as the western share of the global economy will continue to decrease in favor of China and the global south. To take such impulsive, punitive actions as sanctions would derail that entire long term project for which China has worked so hard.
The best revenge is served cold, China will have the last laugh if it holds the course and does not allow the US to provoke it into making a mistake. We know that the current trajectory is one in China’s favor due to how panicked the imperialists are and how aggressively they are trying to do anything they can to change the equation. As for these CIA funded terrorists, the best way to ensure that they cannot cause trouble for China is to continue building up Xinjiang and the Central Asian region economically so that their ideology finds no fertile ground there.
I hope you are right but this assumes what doesn’t happen first is that Erdogan being a dog of the west doesn’t turn the extremist dogs on China first. Sometimes you have to pre-empt things before they turn for the worst, i.e. Syria. These scumbags are not to be trusted.