Xi "believes that China is better able than the US to ‘eat bitterness’—that is, to endure hardship & emerge stronger from periods of struggle."
IGP Senior Research Scholar @juliangewirtz.bsky.social quoted in @ishaantharoor.bsky.social’s piece in @newyorker.com:
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
For years, China has tried to cast itself as a responsible world power and America as an imperialist one. The war in Iran is helping the Communist Party support that argument.
