The thing with China's foreign policy is that it's always with an eye to maintaining internal stability and legitimacy and credibility with its own people first - international politics comes second. The recent air-defense zone being a prime example - they never expected that to work, but it worked at home.
I'd guess Chinese wavetech would stay mostly at home, for big World No.1 projects like 3-Gorges Dam, or a supertall skyscraper, or a highly advanced aerofighter - things the local people could see and touch. It's all about how it's spun to the locals. That wasn't a trainload of people escaping, it was a trainload of people being kidnapped - and there's enough of a critical mass of paid commenters and bloggers on the local internet to make the spin stick.
Having a stealth-drone collide with a fencraft over Nevada isn't necessarily embarrassing for them. It's fencraft's own fault for getting in the way, while it allows the government to spin it to their people that they have stealth craft that not even the US, or Fenspace can track. They won't care that this'll annoy the Americans when discovered - as keeping an eye on one's potential enemies will be seen as a natural right, and something the States are happily doing to everyone else.
If I wanted to be a little satirical, I'd suggest that they start hopping out into space, claiming places were discovered by Chinese Astronomers first, so they have a natural right to them. To the annoyance of the people actually living there. It's a little bit ridiculous - but it wouldn't necessarily be out of character either. People in Fenspace would laugh at it, but the people at home on the mainland would fervently get behind it - and the government making such proclamations. It's unlikely they'd ever try and impose such claims militarily - which risks a fiasco - but they'll still make them and then announce at home that the foreign invaders are the ones causing trouble by not moving.
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I'd guess Chinese wavetech would stay mostly at home, for big World No.1 projects like 3-Gorges Dam, or a supertall skyscraper, or a highly advanced aerofighter - things the local people could see and touch. It's all about how it's spun to the locals. That wasn't a trainload of people escaping, it was a trainload of people being kidnapped - and there's enough of a critical mass of paid commenters and bloggers on the local internet to make the spin stick.
Having a stealth-drone collide with a fencraft over Nevada isn't necessarily embarrassing for them. It's fencraft's own fault for getting in the way, while it allows the government to spin it to their people that they have stealth craft that not even the US, or Fenspace can track. They won't care that this'll annoy the Americans when discovered - as keeping an eye on one's potential enemies will be seen as a natural right, and something the States are happily doing to everyone else.
If I wanted to be a little satirical, I'd suggest that they start hopping out into space, claiming places were discovered by Chinese Astronomers first, so they have a natural right to them. To the annoyance of the people actually living there. It's a little bit ridiculous - but it wouldn't necessarily be out of character either. People in Fenspace would laugh at it, but the people at home on the mainland would fervently get behind it - and the government making such proclamations. It's unlikely they'd ever try and impose such claims militarily - which risks a fiasco - but they'll still make them and then announce at home that the foreign invaders are the ones causing trouble by not moving.
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