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One can be justifiably incredulous at American's world leadership while also finding a China-led "new world order" absolute fantasy. No need to counter the Chinese, give Xi all the room he needs to fall over himself and all the rope he needs to hang himself. He will do all the work himself and the world needn't spend any effort defeating the CCP.

Underlying Xi's call to maintain international law and order through existing global institutions, is his belief and absolute confidence that China has commandeered there organisations, or at least sufficiently crippled them into to inaction.

One need oy look at the Belt and Road initiative to see that when China is left alone to build alliances and economic partnership, it fails miserably and fantastically. Only Hungry seems to be a reliable Belt and Road investment recipient.

Calling on Russia and China to protect Justice? Again, one doesn't have to think America is blameless in its world leadership to find a world order where justice and rule of law are delivered by Russia and China to be a dark, dark, dark place.

I always thought American foreign policy was largely ineffective and incoherent because it is actually inwardly focused. China's foreign policy is embarrassingly set by the delusions of a single guy who sees the world as he wishes it to be not as it is.

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