Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Taking Note...Between Continents

A rocket carries China’s lunar probe

The pouting, petulant little man

whose modest and all-knowing

demeanor is the envy of the world

has gone off on another tempest of

irritated pride, baffled that his powers

of persuasion have once again been

shrugged away by a world too long

accustomed to his more experienced

mentor's quiet diplomacy in world-class

issues of national boundaries, business

acumen, human rights and forthright

stealth-acquisitions of science, technology

industry, military and cultural realms

supplanting  the orderliness of global

relations. Taking  his cue from Xi, Kim

is no laggard in the field of international

relations whereby the shock value of

unconstrained exhibitions of volatile

temper-tantrums augmented by the

authority of ballistic missiles, nuclear

threats and hypersonic weaponry in the

possession of outlier ideological nations

has the world sitting up and noticing...



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