[tragomaskhalos]

The calls for affirmative action against China had a very low probability of bearing fruit beforehand, but since the Russian invasion of Ukraine I would put them at 0% - no sane politician wants to do anything that will push the Chinese further into common ground with Russia.

[aasasd]

Just FYI, China doesn't care about the ‘common ground’ with Russia, and their cooperation mostly comes to China wanting Chinese companies to build infrastructure projects in Russia and receive fat checks for that. China keeps Russia away from its trade to the extent that they built train routes to Europe almost next to Russia through several neighboring countries. China's response to the invasion of Ukraine was: “Such conflicts should be solved with diplomacy”.

I'm no expert, but as far as I can tell, the decision to do anything about China comes from the population of their main trade partner the US—specifically depending on whether those people ever decide that they can do fine without cheap tech and tsatskes from China.

[cies]

A little like "The calls for affirmative action against US [for Guatanamo] had a very low probability of bearing fruit"

It's like the large states can just do horrible things to people without every being punished!