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The video clip of the handshake between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden in advance of the G20 meeting in Bali is an interesting study. One could argue in observing the body language that things are going according to plan—Xi's plan, that is.
We know what Xi's plan is; after all, he has been conveying the elements of his plan for a decade now. That plan involves the assertion of communist Chinese supremacy over the planet. To do so necessarily involves displacing the United States as the world's only economic and military superpower. His grandiose initiatives, such as the Global Development Initiative and Global Security Initiative, are roadmaps to achieving that goal just as Beijing's corruption of international institutions, U.S. and other foreign diplomats, and others are hollowing out the current global order and undermining Washington at every turn to aid the process....