china here using the language of diplomacy all the way through, while us politicians are just like 6th graders during puberty.
All the smart ghouls are dead and all that's left are incapable failchildren at the helm of empire
"when the boomers die then we can have our chance" doesn't account for the fact that those ghouls had kids who have grown up to be said failkids
A rare diplomatic miss for China, as the Amerikkkan model of "doing something real" for the global south is regime change and slavery.
It would be pretty funny for US states and/or cities to start asking for BRI funding and technology to fix dogshit amerikkkan infrastructure.
Like that time a US town asked the Soviet Union to fix their bridge which finally got the US gov to do something about it
Damn it's like a metaphor for literally every progressive concession made by liberal governments since WW2
Yeah but the great satan has reached an even higher level of dysfunction and would be more likely to withdraw what little funding it does provide than be shamed into doing its job at this point
