US officials: "We realize that efforts, implied or explicit, to shape or change the PRC over several decades did not succeed"
US officials: "We realize that efforts, implied or explicit, to shape or change the PRC over several decades did not succeed"

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Remarks and Q&A by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on the Future of U.S.-China Relations | The White House

Depending on how you're counting, China is 10x older than the US. It takes a special kind of naivety to think that the nephew can get one over on the uncle.
arrogance and stupidity tend to go hand in hand