After 3 decades living in the US and lots of NYT/WP/WSJ/Bloomberg subscriptions, I take things like "position of strength", "not democracy", "2nd largest economy", "they are cheaper but with lesser quality", "communist party" as synonymous to racism, whenever those terms appear in the same sentence with "China". I can be as mad or disappointed as I could possibly be in the past, but nowadays I just laugh it off. Along this line, whenever I see or hear politicians or pundits speaking on anti-racism or equal-opportunity, I just laugh and life is going on.
Olaf Scholz is visiting China now so that he wants to keep up with today's Chinese in general and Xi in particular.
Blinken called Wang last week because people on earth know that Netanyahu wants to drag US into bombing Iran and that is the hottest potato in Biden's hands right now all the way to the general election.
Yellen was in China 2 weeks ago because she wanted to take temperature of the Chinese economic leaders and where they are heading in terms of advanced manufacturing and bond purchases.
Rumors are that Macron and Meloni are in queue of visiting Beijing soon.
So I guess those white people were, are or will be bringing their respective positions of strength to the famous Beijing gourmet food streets.
