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comment by tacocat
tacocat  ·  2327 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who's Winning the U.S.-China Trade War?

China is playing chess and Trump and the Republicans at large are kicking over the pieces and shitting on the board, pretending they won. The weaknesses of democracy are being exploited by authoritarian states, China and Russia specifically, and the chief weakness is selfish politicians who are willing to trade short term electoral victory in exchange for long term global influence.