Fair comment regarding the choreography that undoubtedly goes on from the CCP but nevertheless they Have Won The Trade War. the US and EU are freaking that their automotive sectors cannot compete with the Chinese EVs and they are right. Watch the 'free market capitalist' west slap on punitive trade obstructing inflation fueling market distorting tariffs...just like so often happens as we approach war- or in this case, where we are already engaged in multiple proxy wars with China. China has had decades of substantial trade surpluses- compared to the wests decades of trade deficits. BRICS Pay is the Chinese CBDC e-Yuan forming the base protocol for a major challenge to USD hegemony. Putin is fronting it for his master, Xi.