This lunge by China was always doomed to failure, or at least to be very difficult and costly to actually pull off. While it's not over yet, you can put another bullet point on the long list of 'Reasons why China has no Friends'.
Whether or not this leads to anything immediate I think depends on if China thinks they're being embarrassed yet. Ego is behind a lot of what they do.
This is where the West has the big advantage; European countries never really had a continental empire like pretty much everywhere else (Rome was more of a Mediteranian empire). As such, western countries have learned how to coexist as mostly independent nation states.
Contrast this with China, where the whole point is to subjugate your neighbors before they do the same to you. They simply never learned to cooperate so, id they can't conquer the world, they'll eventually turn everyone against them.
This lunge by China was always doomed to failure, or at least to be very difficult and costly to actually pull off. While it's not over yet, you can put another bullet point on the long list of 'Reasons why China has no Friends'.
Whether or not this leads to anything immediate I think depends on if China thinks they're being embarrassed yet. Ego is behind a lot of what they do.
This is where the West has the big advantage; European countries never really had a continental empire like pretty much everywhere else (Rome was more of a Mediteranian empire). As such, western countries have learned how to coexist as mostly independent nation states.
Contrast this with China, where the whole point is to subjugate your neighbors before they do the same to you. They simply never learned to cooperate so, id they can't conquer the world, they'll eventually turn everyone against them.