What I having trouble grasping is why the PRC Seems to be fumbling everything on the foreign policy front right now. I know the virus is like 80 to 90% of that but Chinese elites behavior towards Australia, India, among others, seems tone deaf and foolish. I have always understood Chinese leadership to be foreign educated, fluent in English, etc, but then they do things like try to outlaw support for Hong Kong independence worldwide. Are you serious? I know that they have a domestic audience that is more important than the foreign one but one would think they could accomplish the things they want to accomplish without being so openly, brazenly misguided