While the reaction by China is clumsy, note that this shows how desperate the west is in halting China’s rise, by using a comparatively small issue and blow it up greatly. But note that the USA right now needs China to help them with regards to gas prices, yet they decide the boycott the Olympics in China (or at least push for such) at a time when they need China help.
In light of this, don’t you all think that China would be looking to take a few steps away to let the USA suffer, because lower gas prices is good for China while the opposite is what the USA wants to help with the USA in combatting inflation. Everytime the USA wants help, they beg China yet right now they want to piss China off as those they can get away with it for free. Hey come on, this whole talk about China soft power means nothing when China can basically put the economy of the USA into an even worse of a situation by doing nothing. If the USA want even a little bit of China’a help, they should stop this ‘I will cooperate when it’s good for me and confront you when it’s good for you’. As a result, let these let these so called loses in ‘soft power’ be a lesson and incentive for China to strike far harder blows in return by reducing the trading of resources to the USA along with making moves to greatly increase inflation in the USA via the whole cargo ship and gas crisis (I mean they cancelled pipeline projects along with increasing gas purchases from Russia of all places) so that the USA will either learn to stop kicking around with China or simply suffer the consequences. Remember that those so called elites in the USA are ultimately worth nothing even if they have billions of dollars while those that can grow and produce things are worth something, especially when the USA collapses in on itself.
