> Meanwhile, U.S. President Trump said Monday that Chinese leader Xi Jinping had acted responsibly in his handling of the Hong Kong protests, which Mr. Trump described as “relatively nonviolent.”
> “He has allowed that to go on for a long time,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Xi.
Arguably, Trump's economic actions and continued threats against the EU has led to EU countries cooperating with China in ways they refused to before.
It seemed more like we were being bullied into allowing US companies to bulldoze our institutions for their profit, while not giving much in return.
Perhaps CCP see themselves as guardians of a country, a system thousands of years old. In comparison the existence of the modern democratic West has been for a mere ephemeral duration, and look who likes to lecture whom..
Democracy isn't new its older than communism. Democracy also took time to develop in the West. It's unfathomable to someone who has never been fed information that the Party didn't change.
Many anthropologists would disagree.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_communism#Nature_of_...
Democracy has been in America for well over a 100 years, so it has china beat.
If we're going to play this game: 243 years to be more precise. While communism as a nascent ideology was only invented in 1848... (that's 171 years). 97 years in place as an established government if you count what the USSR called communism as such...and yes ~70 years since the end of the Chinese Civil war.
Everything else is hot air.