Liu Xin, the presenter of The Point, is China's version of Julie Andrews, embodying purity, beauty and the long suffering patience required to deal with psychotic Western politicians outraged, envious and appalled that China is now powering ahead of them having fallen victim to a neurosis called "hegemonic angst".
The compassionate but pained manner with which she hears out some of her guests and refrains from retaliation is admirable and saintly, reminding one of a nanny dealing with a delinquent child or a kindly psychiatric nurse dealing with a particularly difficult patient.
She is the perfect projection of China's soft power.
Isn't Liu Xin utterly charming? We can tell that she is adored by her co-workers.
4:00 Throwing the kitchen sink at China
5:00 "Hegemonic angst"
10:00 America must adjust.
14:00 International norms are not frozen.
5:00 "China is the other superpower."
8:00 Western powers suspect China because they already know they are themselves guilty of having abused their power in their colonial history.
Those who are incapable of great crimes don't readily suspect others of them.
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Thucydides Trap
12:00 Silent majority in the US where it is now politically correct to bash China.
14:00 Cold War mentality?
15:00 Trump is "a little bit impulsive".
16:00 US domestic politics
17:00 Blaming China and bashing WHO an electioneering strategy
19:00 Covid-19
22:00 National security
23:00 Military and civilian security
24:00 "5G is national security."
"The British are not the same as the Americans who are actually jealous of China because of their American Exceptionalism."
"China shouldn't outcrazy the crazy [British]."
6:00 How are the mighty fallen. Britain was where the idea of free trade originated. It's going to cost the UK £2B and there will be a delay of 2 years to its introduction.
9:00 Delay to the introduction of 5G in the UK will mean Britain will be considered backward compared to other countries who will have it.
12:00 Cold War mentality
13:00 Ricardo's principle of comparative advantage being flouted by the UK.
16:00 Western paranoia
22:00 Perhaps things will settle down after the election's been lost and won after November.
24:00 SHOCK HORROR - There is no one in the US who can build mobile networks.
25:00 "Countries that don't have Huawei may find they don't have the best."
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