Xi Jinping Was Only Humoring Trump (opens in new tab)

(theatlantic.com)

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SilverElfin1mo ago· 3 in thread

They’ve been only humoring, and cleverly outplaying, every American administration. Trump is just the latest ineffective and gullible leader who isn’t succeeding at either economic competition or containment of the authoritarian CCP’s power.

allears1mo ago

True, but there's also a lot of truth in the rest of the article. America's power seems to be on the wane.

beardyw1mo ago

Seems more like self harm.

Zigurd1mo ago

That's minimizing the extent to which Trump is vastly stupider, and has no bench depth behind him to make up for it.

hebelehubeleOP1mo ago

https://archive.ph/20260516141219/https://www.theatlantic.co...

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