>>63947907
Once again, this deal clearly wasn't trusted enough to restore shipping through the strait, and it hurt Europe just as much as it did China, while ironically enough not being a huge problem for the US. However, instead of establishing that people aren't allowed to touch global shipping under pain of death, something that should be very important for an export based economy, China instead allowed themselves to be held hostage by a bunch of shitskins until the USN showed up and did their job. If you don't understand how this might be damaging to their intentions to project themselves as saviors of the global south and a stronk opposing pole to the US, you are dumb and making excuses for Chinese cowardice. They demonstrated quite clearly that they have no intentions of actually ensuring freedom of navigation and trade, even when it heavily impacts China, which is a rather bad look for someone who's trying to position themselves as a protectorate superpower in a region where everything goes by boat.