The bustling Datang district of Guangzhou, China, in 2023. China’s economic growth has allowed it to increasingly flex military and diplomatic muscle. — Bloomberg
AS that old saying goes, a statesman thinks of the next generation, while a politician thinks only of the next election.
During World War II, while living in exile, a Filipino leader told an American official that the Philippines would do better to establish an alliance with Japan, than with China – even though Japan was, at the time, occupying the Philippines and China.
