The People's Republic -- you know, the country
that occupied and swallowed Tibet, that
promises the same to Taiwan, that banished
democracy and autonomy in Hong Kong, that
imprisons to re-educate Turkmen and Uyghurs
all to ensure 'harmony' amongst its many
reluctant citizens unfortunate enough to live
in a geography ever expanding to absorb their
own -- is restless and searches for new challenges
over and above its ambitions of imposing the
state of indebtedness in Africa, Latin America
and the Middle East through its ambitious scheme
to portray itself as a bank for infrastructure and
modernization to entrap unwary nations by its
siren song of friendship and good will selective
enough for common cause with other ferociously
territorial dictatorships to the detriment of poor
embattled Ukraine and battered but unbound Israel
while the CCP glowers at its critics and fawns
over its admirers tolerant of China's penchant for
installing provocateurs wherever its vast populace
wanders far from home migrating from oppression
to lands of welcome and opportunities to prosper
yet dogged by the long tentacle arms of China's
invariable outreach reclaiming those who rejected it.
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