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Originally Posted by Catfish
You can't stop illegal or dictatorial regimes that way of course, you can either start a war, or try to convince them, or you can do nothing. I guess the latter is quite hip nowadays.
"For reasons I have never understood, people like to hear that the world is going to hell," historian Deirdre N. McCloskey told the New York Times this week.
It's hard to argue. Despite the record of things getting better for most people most of the time, pessimism isn't just more common than optimism, it also sounds smarter. It's intellectually captivating, and paid more attention to than the optimist who is often viewed as an oblivious sucker." 
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Unfortunately, most of the world's politicians have zero understanding of China and the Chinese mindset. The ChiComs play 4D chess while the west is still figuring out how to lay out the playing pieces for checkers... Very few western governments get it. Trump understood how to counter them and he was until the covid debacle started.