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when others get to dictate the terms to the US for once - "coercive, illegal"

what a fun euphemism for "something that doesn't enforce US economic hegemony". you just can't help yourselves using this morally-coded language. it's geopolitical competition and you benefit personally from supporting the US - enough with the grandstanding

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wow you seem super emotionally, mentally unstable.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the total collapse of China's centrally planned economy decades earlier, China begged to join the world order created by the West and for their own interests. China was refused first, not least because of their human rights violation, but also not everyone believed in China's fake sincerity in adhering to the Western liberal value system, however imperfect, and many had also presciently warned that China would abuse the system to their advantage.

China was finally allowed in under the Clintonite charlatans' flawed narrative under the faux "globalization" banner that if we make China rich, China would become a liberal democratic China and we could all coexist and trade in peace. And you know the rest of the story. China, for its part, just had to keep its head down and get rich; and as Deng Xiaoping once advised, bide its time as the Western societies starts falling apart, but your dear leader Xi got too ambitious and too greedy.

It's just too bad that Xi reared its ugly head too early. There were some early warning signs how China wanted to equalize its historical century of humiliation and restore its former glory -- by weaponizing their dominant market position in critical global industries such as the rare earth metal supplies; and now green energy industries. But I digress.

Now to answer your questions, no China doesn't get to dictate terms. If you haven't noticed yet, de-coupling is real and already started several years ago. While it's going to take some time, the train has already left.