My Gripe

Some time ago, before Trump cried war on Iran - it is not the worst, really - I was really rooting for Trump against China, for in my view, it was China who instigated the trade war with their industrial policy executed at a global scale. State-owned enterprises, like BYD, with CCP's subsidies and the advantage of supply chain in their own backyard put the European automobile industry into chaos. The fightback in the form of tariffs from US was inevitable, to say the least, and we wait and watch closely for any reaction from the Europeans, as export performed strongly for China in Year 2025. My gripe with CCP (not China, that is) is their desire to conquer the rest of the world, so to speak, in a new form of war, using its economic strength and leverage to influence the less resourceful countries. In other words, while US relies on its military strength in solving what it deems as obstacle to remain as the No. 1 power, CCP was throwing blood money, squeezed from its hardworking, submissive citizens.