“O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us!”
China’s Global Times daily responded to Gen. Mark Milley’s overbearing threats to Indonesia to stay away from China, on the eve of the President Joko Widodo’s July 25-26 visit to Beijing, with an insightful editorial with the biting headline: “Let’s Hope U.S. Diplomacy Doesn’t End Up as Chewing Gum on the Bottom of China’s Shoes.” (https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202207/1271395.shtml)
After reviewing the strengths of the Chinese-Indonesian relations, Global Times lays out the picture. It speaks for itself:
“We noticed that the timing of the rhetoric of Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, about China being ‘aggressive’ in Indonesia, just a day before Widodo departed for his visit to China, is clearly not a coincidence.…
