False extrapolation. No one is "lauding an adversarial state". And adversarial to whom? The west is as adversarial to China as China is to the west. You sound

False extrapolation. No one is "lauding an adversarial state". And adversarial to whom? The west is as adversarial to China as China is to the west. You sound put off that the comments don't have enough patriotism. Lacking blind patriotism would in fact be called "neutral". > common != it has happened before It would be atypical to say "over the past several years" about a unique occurrence.