> centuries long attempts to destabilise, enslave, collinise, and exploit

China violently annexed Tibet in the 1950s. Trying to pretend there is a moral gradient is revealing.

You are playing the generic tangent game here. I wish I could replicate how PP makes his points, but here I think he doesn't give it enough credit.

US (& even its allies) have been portrayed to be welcoming, or at least less unwelcoming. than China, which too have had an inbred commitment to hospitality . to the average foreigner. The reality on the ground is generally the opposite. Chinese law enforcement (especially urban) is mostly hands-off, aloof. The powers behind the scenes have different ideas, but they have limited influence on how things play out in everyday detail. This is the same in the US but NYT feel like it is in their interest to muddy the waters.

Vibes are a big part of why I admittedly despise the [soft-elitist] centre (left and right) in the US (& "North-Central Europe[0]"). These inaccurate vibes promulgated by leftleaning "elite humanist" media have for the longest time (250 years?) "quietly" enabled overzealous foreign interventions

[why can't they just do that world-policing in the manner of Chinese "Public Safety"? Brandishing weapons as an after-thought?]

They are waking up to their own hubris and ignorance though, thanks to the polarising situation in the ME. Not quickly enough. Congress is now weak because of these errors of character

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