The US state dept and administration are both hopelessly clueless and inept - this is just like in 2022 when the US went to China with some kind of intelligence on Russian movements and asked China to tell Russia to stop. China, of course, just handed that US intelligence directly over to the Russians because why the fuck would you help the hegemon who keeps saying internally that they'll definitely be at war with you in five years?

just the dumbest motherfuckers around running the show