Diplomatic Inscrutability

Will those Heathen Chinee never learn their proper place? After the failure of their insidious plot to balloon America into submission, the announcement of a possible peace plan for the Russia-Ukraine war has been greeted in the free world with a mixture of trepidation and finger-wagging. The foreign minister of Germany, one of the most enthusiastic suppliers of the Righteous State's wherewithal to perpetuate its half-century breach of international law in Palestine, lectured the interfering Orientals on their obligation not to reward the aggressor. Britain's leading liberal newspaper pondered the risk that the Heathen Chinee plan might itself amount to nothing more than those vacuities about peaceful solutions which are an occasional feature of Oriental diplomacy, in contrast to the straightforward eloquence and robust urgings of the master race. Undeniably the Chinese announcement is compromised by its endorsement of the sinister idea that Russia might have legitimate security interests. There is even a chance that the Heathen Chinee might seek to portray the free world as warmongers: a slant to which, despite the West's history of pacification from Nicaragua through Iraq and Afghanistan to Vietnam and elsewhere, the gullible global south is potentially susceptible.