This is another unbalanced article written by a Trump commentator and highlights why America has tied itself in knots over China. "China has long cast the US as the antagonist", is a line full of self-denial. Most recently, in 2000, the Bush US national security strategy calls China a rising threat. The EP3 crisis in 2003 happened off the island of Hainan not Hawaii, as a result of weekly US spy planes off the coast of China. Yet China, alone, is casting US as the antagonist... Pottinger also claims that the Leninist Ideology "hardly appeals" to the Chinese people. Yet, Pew Research Centre polling highlights the popularity of the CCP and Xi. Pottinger's argument is undermined by its gross generalisations and plays on an American populist narrative that everyone wants to be like USA.