Quote Originally Posted by Davexl View Post
... the World, of Internationally Law Abiding Nations...

How quickly we forget the invasion of Iraq, despite the very visible ongoing consequences. And Im not sure peace based on Mutually Assured Destruction makes people sleep better than than a show of bravado in the Pacific.
Of course they lied. Its what they do. Its what all dictators do to keep power. Very effective tool too. For all politicians politicians for that matter, Trump has surpassed 20,000 and Boris is giving it his best shot.
Yes China is a growing danger to peace and, moreso, the environment but letting big business dictate govt policy like in the US has hardly resulted in a wonderful world. They dont have a load of warships (mobile militarised Islands) in the Middle East because they care about Kurds being called names.

Great irony of recent times is that evil Germany has emerged as the only major power to have any deep leadership credibility. If the atomic button was under Mutti's thumb instead of that illiterate idiot's in disUSA I suspect a lot of people would feel happier.

Google CLOs, bigger threat of them bringing down the global banking system courtesy of USA than China's human rights abuses.