re: #167 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Yup. And topping that list is Donald Trump.

China cares only for China. The rest of the world can just go fuck itself, as far as Chinese leaders are concerned.

China is expanding its economic influence and “soft diplomacy” into Africa, which the USA pretty much ignores. It’s sending signals it wants Taiwan back. Hong Kong’s autonomy is slowly being eroded. It’s using a 600-year-old map to say it has a legal claim over islands that are closer to Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines than to China. And it’s cozying up to Russia again.

One of my former coworkers, from Taiwan explained to me that for much of world history that China had been a top economic power. Trump wants to push China as this evil sinister nation and I’ll admit, I have no love for a lot of their policies but the PRC isn’t a cartoon character either crackling evilly eitehr.