Well, this is blatant corruption. Right in your face type
Nothing has changed since the Gilded Age, and in fact, it could be argued that the feudal robber barons of the Gilded Age where the capitalist factory owners also owned the shops and grocers where the workers had to buy their produce, is the true state of American governance.
No one should be surprised that Biden's counter to China's BRI he dreamt up at the G20 stretching from India through the Middle East to Europe was wholly dependent on BRI in linking everything in between. Before China entered Africa, the West saw Africa as just a place that received Western aid. They even criticized how China had a business relationship with Africa and not just handing out aid like they did (Snap picture of a Westerner pouring a bowl of porridge handing it to a starving child with an over-extended belly here!). Now the West is talking business and trade with African countries. Biden even sent someone as important as the Vice President to fly to Africa into a Chinese built airport and drive on a Chinese built road past Chinese built infrastructure to meet with Africa leaders to tell them to choose the US and turn their back on the Chinese. Just being liked by them and showing nothing for it is so much better a reward than what the Chinese offered.
“Confessions of an Economic Hitman” by Perkins details this wonderfully. The U.S. MO is to target and capture the elites of nations by bribing them with Ivy League positions and fostering old school ties between them and the scions of the Anglo Zionist elite. This is a practice similar to the sending of hostages from a vassal to their liege lord as a demonstration of fealty, where the hostages would grow up to become loyal satrapies of the liege lord.
Stronkest EU pipeline destroyed by dragging anchor. Maybe that's why they had no problems with the idea that Nordstream 1 and 2 could be destroyed by 2 amateur divers on a fishing boat.
It would be comedy gold for the Chinese spokesperson to gaslight the europeans by saying the EU carelessly placed the pipeline in a place frequented by shipping and therefore the EU should pay for damages incurred onto the ship's anchor. Give the Anglo led west and its vassals a taste of its own medicine; you'll notice by their hysterics that they can't take what they dish out, especially when they went psycho at the hint that aristotle's works may have been plagiarised after years of character assassinating all of China's historic figures. Make no mistake, the West believes it needs a war with China to give itself a new western united identity.
This is what confuses me, the West, particularly the anglosphere and judging by 'netizens' on reddit, twitter, 4chan et al appear to wish for a war against China as a way to galvanise a sense of white wester identity and to give frustrated white anglo males an outlet for their perennial rejection from anglo society, yet out of all the opponents, they chose China.
China, the world's longest, oldest most continuous living civilisation; contemporaneous with the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians. Even judging by racist western 'race realist' standards, Sinitic East Asians would qualify as higher IQ, more civilised and therefore 'superior' to the same white supremacists who espouse such theories.
The only reason these western supremacists chose China as their rival is the same reason Indians chose China as a rival: It flatters themselves.
They seem themselves as China's equal as a civilisation, in fact the West wishes it was China judging by the recent outburst of 'Snowteps' on Twitter and by how they try to claim all Chinese inventions and advances as their own. For Indians, who were not even a united polity until the British organised the subcontinent around their railways to better pilfer the land, comparing themselves to China raises their stature amongst Anglos who have convinced themselves that the indians who loquaciously flatter them, will willingly fight and die for the white western order.