When this Blogger was dealing with Soviet and East German Communists, he was gifted, by them,   with a telling insight. That insight was that Communists understand their   corrupt, Panglossian and weak bourgeois enemies much better that the bourgeois would ever understand the dedicated Communist.   One East German Communist told this Blogger that the Communists would eventually win, because there was not enough gangster in the bourgeois to eventually win. (He wound up a Lutheran pastor).   Chinese Communists are Communists (you think?); which means   they may delay the realization of their objectives( such as signing a truce with the Nationalists); but  they will never detour  from the realization of their objectives.   Chinese Communists want to rule the world, from the Middle Kingdom. The Republic stands in the way of that objective.   Communist China is  not afraid of Uncle Joe Biden, nor do they respect him. Swathed in swarminess , s...