[bassman9000]

Is all this talk of everything up to and including war seriously proportional to the thread that is... China being chosen to build some 5G infrastructure?

Difficult not to disregard the whole post as trolling, or even CCP information warfare, given this incredibly reductionist, simplistic comment.

The CCP's China ascend is no good news, other than for the CCP themselves, foreign agents embedded in Western democracies, and, for a short period of time, useful idiots.

In any case, such ascend has been greatly exaggerated, for internal chinese nationalistic consumption. Which is funny given your post. We've been hearing all this time how great the chinese century was going to be, yet IP theft is as rampant as ever, as if China couldn't actually lead to the point others stole from them. In terms of human rights, they're far behind even the newest and poorest western style democracies. They manipulate their dual currency system, and WTO must have run of space tracking all cases of them.

China hasn't even attained world leader status yet, and the meltdown is already happening to them. No amount of fancy orwellian tech can replace checks and balances and the Rule of Law. Every one of these crises more chinese citizens realize how oppressive the CCP boot on their temples is. Not the hypocrites living the Western life with dad's CCP money, sure.

And you're mislead if you think it's not a bipartisan issue in the US. Problem is that current and last Dem heads, from Clinton to Biden, including Obama, are in the CCP's pockets, so the impression is that only the GOP cares. Wait till the campaign heats up.

[jmeister]

The way China governs its people is an issue separate from why US is becoming hostile to China.

The parent’s question was, what is China’s fault? That merits this warmongering-like talk?

[bassman9000]

Absolutely wrong. The way China treats its people IS the root of the issue. With contempt and despotism. And because the CCP gets away doing that to their citizens, they think they can apply the same MO worldwide.

Information was hid at critical moments (Dec-Jan), hindering earlier response. Same as they did with SARS.

Xi asked Tedros, and the WHO by extension, to downplay and delay the emergency declaration, as reported by Der Spiegel from german intelligence reports.

Then they switched to report virus was coming from the US, while making some of the doctors reporting it came from Wuhan disappear. A play not only to avoid international backlash, but also to damage the US.

Australians, and other nations, have stated they'll investigate the origins and failures by China to disclose critical info, and the CCP response is to threaten them, via their english media mouthpieces.

The failures of governments worlwide don't make it less of a truth: China is at fault, to a great extent; they're unreliable, and have double down on their bullyish ways.

They started something, and now cry foul when there's a hint of being held accountable (which, let's face it, will be pretty mild). With no signs of remorse, because the ultra-nationalistic, aggressive plan the CCP has for SE Asia, and the rest of the world, doesn't allow for it.

Yes, they are greatly at fault.