It appears that all these disputes with China follow a similar pattern: the US starts up some dispute with the Chinese and the Chinese react tit for tat. Our two countries operate with different value systems based on different historical systems. We built our nation on the backs of slaves and expropriated land from the Native Americans whom we rounded up and put in Bantustans and have proceeded to try and impose our way with bombs and bullets on weaker countries around the world as part of the general European colonial and imperialist world order. The Chinese are an ancient culture that was attacked and controlled for a century or more by this European order and has freed itself from it and is now standing on its own two feet independent of US world hegemony. Our news organizations report the news filtered through a bias against the Chinese system just as theirs do with a bias against ours. As long as Trump, or any American president, starts up a fight by poking the Chinese (kicking out their news people) they are sure to poke back (the same goes for the Russians -- smaller countries just have to put up with American bullying most of the time). If we want a more peaceful world all we need is for the USA to leave off its bullying and take any real problems to the UN or the World Court which other civilized nations are wont to do instead of bombing, assassinating, or trying to starve people through sanctions.
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