Dammed if she does, dammed if she doesn't! And confounded by the Asian mindset, which is comfortable with the human rights abuses by other nations! Always providing they represent a profit for other nations?

Then condemn those who dare to raise their money faced, double standards. Standards which may result in them being absorbed into a greater larger china and where like Tibet, their previous privileged position will become very much, past tense!

That said, I get that some conversations need to be conducted behind closed doors! And that a publically stated position may not always serve our best interests! Best interests privately advanced behind closed doors and accompanied by a diplomatic cup of convivial tea.

Alan B.

An excellent analysis Murray.

Just showing there are international subtleties that escape OLO's over-representative band of anti-China armchair Cold Warriors.

With Biden's shameful exit from Afghanistan as backdrop, Harris managed to convince SE Asian nations that an empire that cannot defeat a rag tag bunch of Islamowarriers is certainly no match for the PRC.

I expect the next head to head meeting between China and the US to be when Harris takes over from useless/sleep Joe.

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