> China is playing a long game

the majority of people in the west, the US especially, thinks all china does is make cheap walmart crap. it's perfectly fine to say horrible, racist things about the chinese. nobody seems to care.

what's really happening is the chinese government runs the show and facilitates the dumping of cheap stuff into the west to manage expectations/anxiety about their rise, and to fund the real manufacturing and mineral extraction empire. if your competition doesn't take you seriously, that's a net asset, not a liability.

"All warfare is based on deception."