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Xi Jinping Was Only Humoring Trump

• hebelehubele 5mo ago
  https://archive.ph/20260516141219/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/trump-lame-duck-superpower/687189/ https://archive.ph/20260516141219/https://www.theatlantic.co...
• SilverElfin 5mo ago
  They’ve been only humoring, and cleverly outplaying, every American administration. Trump is just the latest ineffective and gullible leader who isn’t succeeding at either economic competition or containment of the authoritarian CCP’s power.
  • allears 5mo ago
    True, but there's also a lot of truth in the rest of the article. America's power seems to be on the wane.
    • beardyw 5mo ago
      Seems more like self harm.
  • Zigurd 5mo ago
    That's minimizing the extent to which Trump is vastly stupider, and has no bench depth behind him to make up for it.