The Chinese Long Game vs. the American Arsonist

Does Patience Work Against an Enemy Who Burns Everything You Build?

I wrote a few days ago that BRICS had learned to kneel. I wrote that the Global South deliberates while gangsters batter down the door. I called for defiance—sanctions on the genocide state, severance of the arteries feeding the imperial machine, action instead of communiqués.

What if I was wrong?

Not about the gangsters. They are real. They kidnap presidents and bomb children and call it civilization. They are the Epstein class, the Davos predators, the men who rape and murder but never face justice. I was not wrong about them.

But I may have been wrong about what I mistook for inertia. What I called kneeling may have been patience. What looked like submission may be strategy—a long game I was too impatient, too Western in my thinking, to recognize.

So if I was wrong, does that change anything? Does an alternative interpretation of what China does (or does not do) in the face of Empire bring us any hope?

Honestly? I don't know. And that terrifies me.

The Long Game

China does not fight the w…