China Learns in Order to Win and Not to Be Nice

People keep telling me that China will learn from Russia's invasion of Ukraine the futility of aggressive war. Not so fast. 

Russia has hard-won experience to sell China: 

Russia has established a program to instruct 600 Chinese military personnel. The lessons would include details on how the Ukraine War was and is fought and lessons learned by the Russians so far.  

I am sure the instruction never includes "don't risk taking territory rightfully yours!" 

I'm reasonably sure that the Chinese believe that with details on the battlefield of today, they'd do much better than those hairy barbarian steppe monkeys screwing the pooch in Ukraine. 

And really, when it comes to Taiwan, China only has to do about as well as Russia has--just have the brains to stop before diminishing returns from fighting become apparent.

We have a persistent bad habit of thinking we can teach the Chinese communists to play nice with others. 

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