^So you're not fond of being challenged. Fair enough. Nonetheless, you said:
roar wrote:In fact, I believe Biden in power would return us to the CCPs "quiet" expansion, which is good for China, pretty shite for everyone else.
This is a doozy. Let's examine it:
1. The rise of China, the views of its leadership, its leadership ambitions, and openly-expressed and published policies have been part of a 'quiet' expansion, more like a conspiracy devised in the back room of a restaurant in Chinatown than the central economic story and international relations topic of the last two decades.
2. Captain Coronavirus the Mental, with his bellicose and cringeworthy outbursts that provide hardliners in China with dream PR, his suppression of global economic growth through trade war instability, his permanent domestic destabilising of the super power, his dangerous abuse of executive norms, his unsurpassed ability as a malignant narcissist to destroy relationships and offside partners, and his ragtag collection of talentless family members and cronies, backed by a fist-waving cult of backward weirdos and religious nutters, is the man to deal with a very, very complex world problem that involves balancing the needs of multiple nations and stakeholders at the highest levels worldwide.
This is the very same wounded, irrational reflex that gave the world Afghanistan and Iraq and the monstrous consequences of devotion to a completely incompetent dunderhead in George W.
When facing world complexities, let's chest beat hysterically, fail to analyse the problem in any depth, and find the most incompetent people imaginable with a horrendous track record to lead the way.
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