‘So this is the American century?’ |
By the time the delegation from Donald Trump landed in Beijing, the Chinese leadership had already prepared the banquet menu. Not diplomacy. Not strategy. Not even revenge. Lunch.
The appetizer was humiliation served cold after the Strait of Hormuz circus — the spectacle of a superpower getting outmaneuvered by men in sandals with drones assembled from spare refrigerator parts and divine confidence. Somewhere in Beijing, an elderly Communist Party strategist probably removed his glasses, looked at a map of the Pacific, and whispered: “So this is the American century?”
And then came the main course: Orange Trump Chopped and Fried.
Not literally, of course. Satire requires clarification these days because civilization has lost both its sense of humor and its reading comprehension. But figuratively? The........