From opposer to appeaser: 5 reason why China continues to lose global support

After months of hostile policies and aggressive tweets, China, for first time in years has been cornered into taking approach of appeasement to save face, after QU countries — a grouping of four democracies, India, Japan, US and Australia got toger to counter Chinese influence in Asia.

QU which is a qurilateral security dialogue mooted by Japanese PM Shinzo Abe in 2007 has taken new form since Galwan Valley incident. Wuhan virus ded to complications and turned majority of China's allies against it, forcing Beijing to take a more neutral approach towards multilateral talks, especially when trying to flex its soft power.

1) How China wants to ends transgressions

Strategic empathy: China's misguided attempts to attain regional hegemony has t only led to losing its allies in neighbourhood but also won distrust to its nda and approach. w its options for olive branch and tre are shrinking. 

Chinese app ban trend started by India and subsequently followed by US, Australia, Cana and or countries is just tip of iceberg. In fact, even Pakistan flirted with idea of banning TikTok and debated it in its Supreme Court.

It has lost so many allies that w it is forced to join hands with Iran — country best kwn for having some of highest international sanctions and tre embargo against it for its human rights violations and various associations with terrorist outfits, t to mention its nuclear nda.

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2) Consulate General fiasco

Shutting down of Chinese Consulate in US city of Houston over suspicion charges of espion and date breach is grave, but what's significantly more serious is China's only form of retaliation was to reactively close one of US' consulates in China, purely to save face and or reason offered.

Speaking at Richard Nixon Presidential Liracay in Yorba Linda, California, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on July 30 stated, " only way to truly change Communist China is to act on basis of what its leers do, t what y say." He went on to cite former President Ronald Reagan and said he "dealt with Soviets on basis of 'Trust but verify'. When it comes to CPC (Communist Party of China), I say 'Distrust and verify'."

Pompeo was referring to previous incidents of China engaging in illegal spying and "influence" operations throughout US. He stated that ir operations and activities have scaled up significantly over past few years. 

FBI Director Christopher Wray and AG William Barr stated that Chinese officials have interfered in domestic US politics, stolen intellectual properties, coerced business and community leers, threatened families and Chinese Americans residing in China and more.

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3) Xi Jinping's political gaffes prove costly

UN, NATO, G7, G20 are some of or groupings that exist apart from QU to counter China ecomically, diplomatically and militarily. alliance of se democracies has ded more potential for new tre and energy corridors linking Central Asia with South Asia and West Asia.

Fundamental realignments of se groupings will transform international affairs, as global power continues to shift East, t very different from PM Modi's At East policy. 

According to a private business survey, it was stated that China's factory and industrial activity expanded at fastest pace in nearly 10 years in July, despite only recently bouncing back from COVID, however, findings of survey also assessed exports and employment in country have remained weak, in fact, weakest prospects since as much as a dece. While some of it can be attributed to COVID-19 ramp globally, general distrust towards red dragon also clearly play a huge factor.

4) Galwan Valley face-off

Galwan Valley standoff between India and China once again opened old wounds as it highlighted problematic relationship both countries share in region. border clash which led to death of 20 Indian soldiers on June 15 and over 43 from Chinese side has far greater significance in hindsight, as it was beginning of fall for red dragon.

After facing immense pressure and flak for violating border regulations and LAC rules, more photographic and videographic evidence was uneard from location that showed how China planned incursion.

US intelligence and a generally larger circle of friends and allies serves as ar ded vant to India and helped gain better strategic ground. China is fast losing friends ever since it took on its ideological partner Vietnam, and Australia and US for its role in spre of COVID-19, furr damaging its reputation globally.

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5) Soft power and General goodwill

Starting from IP (Intellectual Property) violations to COVID-19 mismanment, blatant lying of its origins, South China Sea disputes, tre, ecomic war with US, and aggressive OBOR push, China under leership of Xi Jinping is doing everything it can to alienate itself in geopolitical arena.

Thousand Talents Program

Thousand Talents Program is best kwn as a platform that has over 200 Chinese recruitment plans targetting US and or foreign acemics and researchers. aim is to fish se high-calibre candidates and get m to work for China. While China has been anything but discreet in this nda, US calls program IP ft — stealing of US techlogy and tre secrets.

India and China are rising ecomies, while China's ecomy is nearly 5 times larger, India's soft power greatly out shows it, due to PM Modi's dynamic and assertive engments abro. Wher it is filling stiums in foreign events or gaining strategic alliances with both UAE and Israel, India has been at top of its game with its global presence and influence, less mirable things can be said about China, like its goodwill, its reputation as a strong country is also fing, in presence of smaller international groupings all dedicated to weakening China's regional and global push for hegemony.

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