Dear China,
Do be aware of the reasons there are anti-China elements in the West. persecuting your minorities, laying claim to the territories of neighbouring free peoples and threatening military occupation, and suppressing democracy and free speech, are all reasons why so many of us take a negative attitude towards you and why NATO so distrusts your words. In the West, the wise judge a tree by the fruit it bears. You cannot hide every satellite image, all the smartphone footage. You have brazenly lied too often, you have no face left in the West any more, your pompous and mealy-mouthed self-righteousness makes you a laughing-stock in the same class as Donald Trump. If you want your face back, you have to earn it back.
Remember too, we love you enough to eat your food, collect your art, build trade and share technology with you, educate many of your citizens and give homes to a great many more. Yours is a wonderful and historic people, the greatest and longest-established nation on our planet and, in principle, equal in every way to the West. The vast majority of we Westerners would far prefer to share our planet with you than fight you for it. Your people deserve better than your shameful, aggressive, lying ways.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
