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Observations like this regarding how Blinken was treated in China may seem trivial, petty even. I would point out that that view is from a Western cultural position.

From a Asian cultural perspective, FACE is everything, and wars have been fought for much less.

Ignorance of when one is being insulted serves to perpetrate the inferior, barbarian, uncultured stereotypes often held against the West....

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One Belt, One Road is the culmination of Mao's 100 Year Plan, insidious in its scope, and every bit as much the CCP's version of their own Blob on the world stage.

The subversion of the South Pacific and South American nation states under One Belt, One Road has been a topic I've watched with some interest for several years.

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