"capitalism with American characteristics"

> "capitalism with American characteristics"

China is trying to beat US at its own game. US (or at least its current political leader) is trying to beat Russia at its own game. Russia is trying to remain relevant. Russia is the muscle, China is the finance.

China needs Russia just like Google (Chrome) needs Firefox. Without Russia around, China would get all of the attention instead. Without Firefox existing, Google would have no counter to antitrust allegations in the web browser space.

Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better than you.

No, not like that!

It's like that Spider-Man meme where everyone is Spider-Man pointing their fingers at each other. All the power structures are mirroring each other. It's all kayfabe, all the time. Everything is wrestling.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/magazine/is-everything-wr... | https://archive.is/muwUp