China will always belong to the Third World.
Yes. Whereas Russia will never belong to the Third World. The US, on the other hand, will eventually join the Third World.
Meanwhile, more good signs:
https://us.yahoo.com/news/working-assertive-china-must-zealand-001318730.htmlWorking with assertive China a must - New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern
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Ms Ardern rejected the idea that it was time for New Zealand to join the US, UK, and Australia in the Aukus security alliance to help ward off China's influence in the region.
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"We've asked the US to take an interest in the economic architecture of our region, it can't just be about defence and security arrangements," she said.
"It should be about the wellbeing of the region as a whole. And you're starting to see a response from the US on that front."
New Zealand has been criticised for not taking a harder line on China.
"The region as a whole" includes China, as opposed to Aukus which is designed to exclude it.
Moreover, we see it is perfectly possible to still be anti-Russia without also being anti-China:
'Ukraine war is solely Russia's fault'
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But it isn't useful to turn this into a war of ideology, she said - refusing to frame it as a conflict between autocracies and democracies.
"Let's not be quick to create a binary situation between two differing schisms in the world. It is Russia, who has perpetrated this, it is Russia who must be spoken firmly against, and let's do everything we can diplomatically to ensure that that doesn't grow beyond Russia."
Ardern wisely rejects positing equivalency between Ukraine and Taiwan. This is the approach we need to turn China against Russia as opposed to pushing China closer to Russia.