Historically and currently, China deals only bilaterally with other powers rather than through multilateral alliance systems, and treats all smaller powers as inferiors, which includes nearly every other state on the planet.
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“The Chinese historically deal only bilaterally with people...what's China's massive alliance system? It doesn't...It treats smaller powers as inferiors, which means just about everybody on the planet is smaller. everyone's an inferior and they're going to go boss people around”
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Sarah C.M. Paine: What Is China's Grand Strategy?— Decoding Geopolitics Podcast with Dominik PreslCreated: 8/11/2026, 6:21:25 AM
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