China has been slow-boiling the American frog for some time now, this is just it turning up the heat a tiny touch. You don’t want to add too much heat too soon as that will alert the frog to jump out of the pan. Slow and steady is the right way to go until you are prepared to stir fry it for extra flavour and crispiness.
Very well said.
If we look back to the past decade, we will see that China's "soft" respose instead of tit-for-tat is the best approach than the trigger-happy American style.
Although US has always been strangling China's advancement, the current thread of strangling started in 2015 by Obama's banning of Intel Xeon Phi to hinder China's super computer. Trump was merely following the lead unlike media and himself try to portrait. Biden just continues. Now imagine if China pulled out the bigger gun back in 2015, all the crazy acts of Trump and Biden would have happened 8 years ealier. That would have made China's "decoupling from US" much harder.
Never let the enemy dictate how the fight is conducted, never let emotion japerdize one's objective, retaliation is necessary but it alone is never the purpose. Think of enemy's obstruction just another rock on the road or river in the path to overcome, no more no less.
