The world is being run by men with the mentality of nine-year-olds. This is not really anything new, but it's unusual for the governments of the two biggest world powers, the USA and China, to be both democratically retarded at the same time. It's also probably very bad news.

Hmm. So the Chinese crashed into the American's plane, or vice a versa, and a Chinese pilot has died. This seems to be a factor on the side of the Chinese; but I'm expecting that in the eyes of both powers, a life is less important than a fighter plane. Therefore the US seem pretty pissed off at not getting their plane back; this seems fair enough, as it's worth a lot and it was flying in international airspace. So, then. Nasty Chinese. How horrid of them to dare to get in the way of the nice, peaceful American plane and how naughty of them not to give it back.

And what was the nice, peaceful American plane doing? Was it dropping happy messages saying 'We love you, Chinese people!' into the sea? Was it broadcasting free pornography to the sexually-deprived Communist masses?

Er, no. IT WAS FUCKING SPYING.

Spying. Which is an act of aggression on the part of the US, and not very nice at all. Okay, the Chinese probably spy from Cuba, but Cuba's a country, and not international airspace. The Cubans can do what the hell they like in their own country, whereas actually flying into neutral waters and pissing about there is not the same thing at all.

It's pretty clear the US shouldn't have been spying, but neither should the Chinese be holding on to the American's toy plane. Both sides are at fault, but they're now engaged in a childish game of trying not to be the one who apologizes. But while in life there's usually someone there to force both sides to make up, or they'll get no dinner, here there isn't anyone bigger than the two countries to step it and force them to stop being silly boys.

So what's going to happen? Potentially, WWIII, although I don't think even Dubya Bush is that stupid. Someone, however, will have to lose, and my guess is it'll be the US. While they had the economic upper-hand over the USSR, here I think China is the more stable and self-contained country. If the US government had any sense, they'd grow up and realize that China is not the USSR and is not the enemy by default. If the USA really want to change things in China to be more democratic, then they'd be more co-operative, and try to let things change naturally, as China is opened up to trade. Instead the US are trying to wield a power they no longer possess. They may have the most nukes, but everyone knows they would only use them in a really dire emergency (or in a stupid mistake...).

If this is the first test of the new idiot-run US government, then they're already doing everything wrong. At this rate, the US will be the new North Korea by this time next decade.
 
 

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