And the airing of said laundry achieves what exactly? I don't see any knock on effect from that dirty laundry being aired, other than entertaining the masses with new scandal and signaling to the rest of the world that the US is not to be trusted.
No midterm routs in China.
For Europe, the answer is using homegrown metal, even if it is severely underpowered, and accepting that it will be running American and Chinese open-source models for the near future. (The French lobbyists looked likely to turn Mistral into another Arianespace, but they’ll be resisting implosion for at least another year.)
If you don't think it's important or needed, well, there is still a lot for you to learn.
US per capita spending on healthcare: $13,473 per person
China per capita spending on healthcare: ~$763 per person
Both have average life expectancy of 79 years. LITERALLY China has better healthcare, better housing, literally better in all the ways that count.
What does our "democracy" get us exactly???