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They are rising to power.
The US is falling.

It is just as well, the US no longer deserves to be a world leader.
The values of greed, corruption, hatred, racism, violence, dictatorship
are not worthy of global admiration or support.

When Taiwan eventually gets the Ukraine treatment from China, they may reconsider.

Biden had the economy surging back to health after COVID. FOX Business network was choking on the figures.

Trump single handedly, turned away a ton of business. And forced his traditional allies to turn to China, and in so doing, helping them to have a new surge.

China is a corrupt, dictatorial, human rights abusing, closed system. But one of the aspects of that is that they are stable, and predictable. The USA is not. *Trump is not.

Plus a months worth of rice for every person in Cuba as Trump is into starving the little children. We are so screwed as how the world looks at us because we have an evil psychopath as our president. Even Jeffrey Epstein said Trump was one of the most evil people he ever met - called him Borderline.

“In the midst of the current energy crisis in #Cuba, the installation of 5,000 solar systems donated by the People's Republic of China is underway across the country.”

Link to tweet

with our system, any election cycle could bring a normal person or a psychopath and the flaw in our system is that the "rules" have no enforcement mechanism.

I mean, this giant orange turd has been able to do pretty much anything he chooses and he does whatever he pleases like a monkey flinging feces (but with a lot less thought than that).

I live in Germany, am in France once a week, and speak both German and French.

Obviously, just about everyone I talk to hates Trump, and feels that the USA has become unreliable under his regime. But they also maintain a deeply seated mistrust of China, and since their leaders tend to be dictators for life with an unambiguous ambition toward taking Taiwan and ultimate (long-term) world domination, the Europeans know that if we end up with poor leadership (Cheney, Trump, e.g.), it is temporary (Bannon notwithstanding). The EU loved Clinton, Obama and Biden. There has been no Chinese—or Russian—leader about whom they felt that way in the last 40 years.