Diplomacy By Conspiracy Theory

Interesting. When I interviewed Cui last year I pressed him on these deranged claims and he completely distanced himself from them and threw his hardline conspiracy theorist colleague under the bus. A lot has changed. https://t.co/GKH9Fp8x5i https://t.co/Rf7yvcp4Lh

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) February 7, 2021

...is clearly the new cutting edge.

I would say it started with Trump; but this is just China being China.  Oh, with the added allowance of "Trump did it first!" thrown in.

Yeah, the choice between Hillary and Trump really made no difference at all, did it?