The graph I found most interesting was: Instead, a member of the Chinese Politburo harangued them for almost an hour, describing the U.S.-China relationship as

The graph I found most interesting was: Instead, a member of the Chinese Politburo harangued them for almost an hour, describing the U.S.-China relationship as a “clash of civilizations” and boasting that China’s government-controlled system was far superior to the “Mediterranean culture” of the West, with its internal divisions and aggressive foreign policy. Specifically the "Mediterranean culture", which I assume refers to the Romans, and their careening from one leadership extreme to another, civil wars, warmongering, alternating between competence/incompetence and morality/corruption, etc.