The Xiongnu were not won over with civility but with great violence and force of arms. It remains to be seen if the Anglo led west can be trained to be civilised.
Hell, the west has been harping on about how China the mighty dragon if awakened would shake the world and the first thing they try to do is try to kill China. Well they failed and now, China the dragon is mighty pissed.
It’s why you get articles like this guy trying to say that Chinese reprisals were overboard, it’s like how Americans won’t do anything when a Chinese man is being harassed on the train, but they’ll start screeching once the Chinese man gets up and starts throwing hands.
No, there was a timeline where the Anglo led west could avoid the hammer of justice from China if they accommodated the rise of China, but now, after “China virus”, after kidnapping and murders, after trying to instigate war in east Asia and in doklam, they’re going to find more gloating at the misfortunes of western powers and the inevitable weakening of the stature and power of the west. What happens when the religion of white supremacy encounters a dialectical atheist culture like the CPC? Let drone automated thermonuclear carrying H-20s be the final retort of the Chinese civilisation.
