On the old site, I was telling China in order to secure their metal from Latin America, China needed to reward and invest in the leftist government nations during the Biden years when China could get away with this with ease. Instead, China went with the waste soft power by supporting an illegal war in Ukraine.
China is going to either cave to Washington or be begging for the Biden Years when those silver and copper producing nations were leftists and part of the Pink Tide. China had to then invest 100s of billions of dollars over the years to make those vital nations part of the China camp, to give rewards to voters for voting for pro-China governments in Latin America. China did not foresee this and is going to have to fight with the US on the US turf, with pro-US governments for silver, copper and other vital resources.
China failed in four things during the weak Biden years:
(1) no massive rearmament
(2) no extensive ties to Latin American nations via development
(3) no going to gold and silver as money to defeat dollar hegemony
(4) relying on Russia to fight the West - no stopping TSMC from leaving Taiwan and going to the US by Chinese threat of invasion or invasion.
China instead destroyed their soft power with much of the globe, and backed a war that only helped Washington in Europe.