I take it you are American? I'm not. I was never brainwashed with the stuff America was brainwashed with.

If America was really that heinous, then the world wouldn't buy all the goods from them, would they? Yet America is paying China billiions in terms of trade, and China has grown very rich on that.

I'm cofnused about your view that you think because China has various abuses that it will not become powerful financially and militarily? How does that equate?

The entire world buys from China. What do you think is going to happen to America when it stops buying from China? Why do you think that Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia will stop buying from China? They aren't. It's too convenient, and it's too cheap. People benefit from China producing goods from cheap prices.

You seem to think that world power depends on 'goodness' and 'morality.' You are vastly mistaken.

World power depends on having lots of money and a vast military.

The only other reason that I can think that you appear to believe that nations must respect a country before they grant ti 'world power.' Your country started losing power long before Bush went into Iraq. Iraq was the final nail in the coffin. Americans seem to be the last people to realize that the world no longer looks to America for leadership, It's quite bizarre how Biden can say to the world "America is back, etc.' and he doesn't realize how stupid we all think he is.

The high point in this article, to which I have attributed the most time is the email I received from the European Union. To me, that's the mindblowing part. You dont' even seem remotely excited about it.