Trump is giving China a chance

:-/

I gotta wonder why we’re writing this article about a rising international industrial power that Americans are trained to hate (China) and ignoring a rising international industrial power that Americans are in more serious tension with (India).

Virtually anything you can say about one could describe the other. They’re both technological trailblazers, voracious natural resource consumers, major carbon emitters, metropolitan hubs with rapidly growing professional work forces, and enormous population centers. They’re both increasingly involved in the Great Game of global politics, regularly flaunting the old western-centric Rules Based International Order, and flirting with territorial expansion in their immediate neighborhoods. They’re both major players in the Global South (specifically East Africa), as leading members of the BRIICS. They’re both building stronger ties with Russia in order to exploit the natural resources of the largest contiguous territory on the planet. They’re both flirting with economic models that sideline the US Petrodollar and the Euro-Centric banking sector.

So why does one of them only ever seem to get write ups like this?