They can’t process that a long term plan is not a lie to calm the population until they forget about it and you propose increasingly less good long term plans, and are actually the plan the government is implementating
It’s what happens when you start guzzling your own propaganda kool-aid. Western leadership convinced itself that China is a Potemkin village.
Let them loose their imaginations. The more detached they are from reality, the faster and more comedic their downfall.
Absolutely, there is basically no chance of the west being able to mount a coherent response to China’s rise when they don’t even have the basic understanding of how China works. Meanwhile, China understands west quite well and that’s what allows China to run circles around western policy.
