Yet for some reason all this is counted up on an entirely different side of the ledger. A fact that suits the CCP enormously well. At the same time that the CCP has been actively engaging in the most appalling human rights abuses, it is clearly delighted that the West has distracted itself with a set of self-abasements of its own. So long as the West is into the masochism business, it will always find a very willing sadist in Beijing. On the national and international stage, China is willing to hit the West—and America in particular—in what it regards as its weak spot. And one of those weak
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