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“The alternative to a rules-based order is a world in which might makes right and winner takes all and that would be a far more violent and unstable world,” Blinken said.
The Chinese fired back. Yang Jiechi, a member of the Politburo, offered a lengthy monologue in which he said Western nations don’t represent global public opinion and called the U.S. the “champion” of cyber-attacks.
“Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States,” he said, citing the killing of Black Americans and the Black Lives Matter movement. Near the end of his opening remarks, he said Blinken’s comments weren’t “normal” and added that in response “mine aren’t either.”
Things only got worse from there. Cameras were ushered from the room, only to be called back in. Yang and Foreign Minister Wang Yi took the opportunity to follow up with even more criticism. “Is that the way you had hoped to conduct this dialogue?” Yang asked, according to his delegation’s translator. “I think we thought too well of the United States. The United States isn’t qualified to speak to China from a position of strength.”
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Love how it's just "rules-based", not even "democracy-based" or "diplomacy-based" anymore, just "rules". Like a toddler getting angry that he has to share his toys.
The US makes the rules, the rest of the world follows them. Of course the US is not subject to the same rules - how could it be? The US must enforce the rules while being free to break them. You might think this is a stupid contradiction, but State Department does not see it that way at all. This is "American Exceptionalism", widely misunderstood to mean USA NUMBAH ONE, which is not how State views it. the notion of American Exceptionalism which is an ideology that means that they view the US to have rights no other country in the world has do to the exceptional nature of their state compared to other countries. Thus they view American interference in other countries as totally in their right due to their superiority over others, while inferiors of course have no right to do the same to America.
"It is the threat of the use of force and our line-up there that is going to put force behind the diplomacy. But if we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us."
-- Madeline Albright, trying to justify the invasion of Iraq. It finally happened after she was out of office.
I was gonna say, that’s literally the type of world the United States has been trying to make a reality for its entire existence.