Therefore, Wang Ye believed that the next ten years or so would be a very critical time window!
If they could seize this time window and enhance their country's strength as much as possible, they would have sufficient confidence and strength to speak up when global tensions worsen in the future.
It was obvious that a certain major power in Asia had taken advantage of this time window to play possum, focusing on building up its own strength.
By the time the United States felt something was amiss and wanted to extricate itself from the Middle East to return to the Asia-Pacific, it discovered that it was already too late to contain the rise of the other party...
Unfortunately, Russia did not seize this critical time window. After a few years of "false" economic surge from selling energy, it became somewhat inflated, lacking subtlety and strategy in its actions, which resulted in making enemies everywhere and beginning to be opposed and sanctioned by Europe and the United States.