Melodramatic - and humourless to boot. At least not your usual...

Melodramatic - and humourless to boot. At least not your usual obscure and far off tangent response

Well what's the flip-side, atom man? - you favour (you trust?) a world or an alliance with an authoritarian regime like the CCP with its inherited century's shame of China's past with its touchy, cloistered model, ensuring your averagejoe expression is stifled, penalised commercially or get you locked up with the Chinese version of other dissenting Assanges (only 10000x more) you're always lamenting about so much.

You think it will be better off with poor, rogue, misogynic, culturally incompatible nations and an aggressive China building up militarily in the Pacific and the SCS, surrounding and antagonising its neighbours including us, its unfair trade practicices (dumping of products at under-market prices, forced technology transfers, intellectual property violations), intellectual property theft and cyber attacks, international epitome of human rights violations and market access barriers? -- a recipe for the opposite of wealth creation and innovation.

What you heard is better than the alternative. And there wouldn't be a free yum cha either way.