[this is best imagined with little flag balls, such as the US Flag Ball and the China Flag Ball, BTW]

US (and The Rest of the World chorus): "China, you owe us, pay us."

China: "Can't make us pay you anything!"

US: "We'll start with locking the borders."

China: "Yeah, we've already locked the borders to you!"

US: "Also, we're ending visas for your people, including tourist visas. No more Ambassadors of Death from China!"

China: "RAAAAAYCIST! Oh, but we're doing that too."

US: "And we're raising tariffs on your products to 500%."

China: "RAAAAAYCIST! We're going to nationalize your assets in China!"

US: "Brilliant move, we were hoping you would do that, because those people still doing business in China at the expense of the American taxpayer are traitors, so we'll do the same. We can also save a lot of money that can go back to the American taxpayer if we revoke all of the bonds you hold."

China: "OH YEAH?! We're not going to pay you back for … oh, wait, did you say we don't get any more interest payments and we lose our initial capital as well?"

US: "Yeah, did we forget to mention that we're replacing the 500% tariff with an outright ban on Made in China products to support the American economy and our valued trading partners, such as Canada?"

Canada: "… see, I told you, Justin's been a fool for warming up to China, the Americans really do have our back!"

US to Canada: "Don't count your soft wood lumber treaties before they're signed, and stop interrupting us when we're talking to China, you're just our hat that keeps us warm and protected from Russian bears."

US: "… AHEM, you were saying, China?"

China: "So if we send any cargo ships your way …"

US: "They won't get across the Pacific."

China: "You wouldn't."

US: "We already did. How do you think Nixon got you to the negotiating table all those years ago?"

China: "This is a provocation for war!"

US: "You've always been at war with us, so what else is new? We only pulled back our bombers from Guam so we could refit them for a newly developed nuclear strike drone."

China: "We can project Chinese force via the sea!"

US: "Ever heard of an intelligent maritime area denial system? It consists of about twenty million smart floating mines the size of refrigerators, and it's so flexible that it can be used for both offensive and defensive purposes. It's also cheaper than the F-35 program, and we can run it for even cheaper with an American AI platform."

China: "That's insane!"

US: "No, it isn't, we're building a border wall and making you Chinese pay for it."

China: "!!!!!"

China to Mexico: "Is the US always like this?"

Mexico: "We're a little busy here to deal with your bullshit, China, we're building a wall to keep the infected Americans out, and it sucks that we really do have to pay for it. Was this your idea, pendejos locos?"

US: "This is winning."

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Indeed. And the major reason why he has such power is because the God-Emperor's greatest weakness is not his taste for beautiful women, self-aggrandising superlative-ridden rhetoric, or constructing gigantic steel-and-glass edifices bearing his name. No, his greatest weakness is his very liberal feminist bleeding-heart daughter Ivanka, who is clearly his favourite child and has his ear on most subjects. Her husband gets almost all of his power and influence through her – and that is a very bad sign indeed.

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