the PRC not merely succeeded in subjecting the developed countries to trade competition, but also engineered the deindustrializa­tion of both developed economies and many middle-income ones

"Please help, China shit my pants 😭"

Deng Xiaopeng’s famous “South­ern Tour,” which opened the floodgates to foreign investment in Chinese manufacturing, took place about a year before Bill Clinton became president, and for most of the three decades since, the PRC was more a source of workhorse products than advanced ones. The G7 countries appear to have believed that either the PRC would democratize, or it would cease ascending the ladder of growth and sophistication.

Just straight up implying China should've become a full-on western puppet, ffs