No one is afraid of the US anymore.

"2034" is a novel written "by James Stavridis, a retired admiral, and Elliot Ackerman, a former marine and intelligence officer. The book is about how China and America go to war in 2034, beginning with a naval battle near Taiwan and with China acting in a tacit alliance with Iran an Russia," wrote Thomas L Friedman. It may be no coincidence that 2034 is exactly 50 years after '1984', a famous novel by George Orwell, about Josef Stalin's Soviet Union with its total control of the population, mass surveillance and an extensive system of gulags to silence any opposition, wikipedia. The Communist Party has total power in China controlling what news reaches the people through its Great Firewall, wikipedia, brainwashing of its own citizens in concentration camps, BBC, and even kidnapping people for publishing books critical of the party leadership, BBC. "Our foolish decision to expand NATO into Russia's face -- after the fall of the Soviet Union -- hardened post-communist Russia into an enemy instead of a potential partner, creating the ideal conditions for an anti-Western autocrat like Putin to emerge." It was Democrat President Bill Clinton who proposed to extend NATO to countries of the former Warsaw Pact in a speech in Detroit in 1996. The US was building a new NATO, said Clinton, "First by adapting NATO for new capabilities for new missions. Second, by opening its doors to Europe's emerging democracies. Third, by building a strong and cooperative relationship between NATO and Russia." Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu recently "voiced concern about NATO forces' presence near Russia", Economic Times (ET). "Last week, Russia closed off wide sectors of the Black Sea near Crimea to foreign warships until November, shrugging off Ukrainian and Western complaints." Last month, the latest Democrat President Joe Biden levied new sanctions on Russia. First provoke Russia and then impose sanctions if it reacts, those formulating US foreign policy must think Russians are a bunch of idiots. "North Korea was moving forward with a dangerous nuclear program it had been working on for more than a decade. Thanks to our diplomacy, and with the help of Japan, South Korea, and China,North Korea has frozen that program under international monitoring," boasted Clinton. Twenty-five years after Clinton's speech, "North Korea has hit out at the Biden administration as it prepares to unveil its strategy for dealing with Pyongyang and its nuclear programme," BBC. Can't expect warm words when Biden called Kim Jon Un "a thug" during election campaign. Apparently, Biden plans a "calibrated, practical approach" to North Korea but Pyongyang refuses to play the game, warning instead of "crisis beyond control in the near future", CNN. "Taliban fighters have protected western military bases in Afghanistan from attacks by rival, or rogue Islamist groups for over a year under a secret annex to a pact for the withdrawal of all US forces by May 1, three Western officials with knowledge of the agreement told Reuters." "Instead, the Taliban intensified attacks on Afghan government forces, and civilian casualties have spiralled." US cowardice and hypocrisy is beyond measure. "Kill Afghan civilians but protect us", and they lecture others on human rights. "The Biden administration is considering a near wholesale rollback of some of the most stringent Trump-era sanctions imposed on Iran in a bid to get the Islamic Republic to return to compliance with a landmark 2015 nuclear accord, according to current and former US officials and others familiar with the matter," US News. First surrender, then talk, what's the use?. "The East is rising, and the West is declining," Chinese President Xi Jinping said recently. Maybe, China contributed generously to the 'dark money' that elected Biden. Cowards can be bought.