What a surprising and refreshing piece from SCMP. It is about China and USA relationship in general, but most of it mentioned Hong Kong and SCS. So I'll post it here.
SCMP Columnist
Just Saying by Yonden Lhatoo
Trump’s America is provoking a real war with China; will the unthinkable happen?
- Yonden Lhatoo raises the alarm over the risk of all-out war between the world’s two biggest powers, asking how much more provocation Beijing can absorb or will take before retaliating for real
Published: 5:20pm, 8 Aug, 2020
“It is to one’s honour to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel
,” Proverbs chapter 20, verse 3 advises those who are being provoked into a fight.
You don’t really have to follow the Scriptures to appreciate the wisdom in these words, but how immensely ironic to see the officially atheist Chinese Communist Party taking the “honourable” road in such a context while the Bible-thumping administration of US President Donald Trump adopts the role of the belligerent “fool” picking all the fights in its astonishingly provocative religious crusade against China.
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