"China is trying to beat countries into submission by egregious economic coercion," one senior official told the WSJ. "The West needs to create a system of absorbing collectively the economic punishment from China’s coercive diplomacy and offset the cost."
After spending the last half millennia beating other countries and peoples into submission not only economically but also militarily through colonization and the neo-colonization that is ongoing, the West is now complaining about China? Really? These folks appear to be delusional.
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White House Planning Unprecedented Trade Alliance To Retaliate Against China
Tyler Durden
This falls into the category of 'breathtaking hypocrisy'.
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