Sarah Paine

Because if they come riding in, you can probably eventually deal with it in province one.

And it'll eventually work.

But all of a sudden, these Western powers come.

And then the Chinese very foolishly fight in the treaty ports.

And what they should have done is said, hey, come on in 25 miles and see how you like it.

All right, let's try 50.

And the British would have had real trouble with that.

And it's a real failure of strategy that they can just own.

So they love to complain about the foreign Chinese today, about foreign imperialists, and they don't look at their own gross incompetence.

What is it?

This country, we're dealing with Britain.

Britain's a lot closer to us than it was to China.

Their population was larger than the American colonists.

And George Washington and friends gave them a run for their money.

right?

The Chinese, what's their problem?

They should have been able to deal with it.

But it's a case of lacking leadership, lacking institutions, that these things matter.

You even have all the resources in the world.

So this country needs to watch it.