Source: https://www.wsj.com/world/how-america-inadvertently-created-an-axis-of-evasion-led-by-china-0a9bc477
Article is paywalled by the way, but you get the jist from the first paragraphs anyway, “oh no, we can’t subdue the US’s enemies, ahem, i mean “authoritarian enemies of democracy” through unilateral coercive measures, sorry, “sanctions” anymore, blah, blah, blah…”.
Article now un-paywalled: https://archive.is/KxDP6
More ‘interesting’ visual data there as well as some cringe comments!
Thanks, that’s super helpful. The graphs are interesting but nothing we haven’t seen or heard before in some form or another. Still, always useful to have a mainstream source to be able to confront liberals in denial with the cold hard data.
What’s most surprising is that some of the people commenting on the article seem actually way less delusional than whoever writes these pieces. I’m used to the readership of US MSM outlets being very ideologically liberal. I guess WSJ attracts a slightly different sort than your NYT or your WaPo.