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We merely WISH to have honesty, empathy, and communication from China. Feelings, wishful thinking, and lack of strategy and leverage is a road to incomprehensible ruin.

1. Strategy runs through China-UAE > China-Iran. Same with Saudis.

https://chinamenanewsletter.substack.com/p/632024

2. And where the battle seems to be completely lost is on social media. What kind of intelligence services manage to lose so badly on social media 15+ years into its existence, 8 years post-Brexit/Bernie/MAGA? That's where the biggest failure continues. to. this. day!

3. Gonna have to get a lot more forward thinking to recover and get ahead, now.

- paper Tiger in Iran.

- political "images" and caricatures.

and a lot more.

Addressing the congress is perhaps 25-50 years out of date AND sure to backfire. Decision makers seem to be completely out of touch with the West's wokeness monster reality, social media, and genAI.

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