American conservative political commentator and Fox News host Laura Ingraham wrote last night (Beijing time on January 31): "We can't afford to keep paying them. If they are so foolish as to sell themselves to the Chinese Communist Party, then they were never real allies to begin with. American allies are getting closer to China, but this is done under Beijing's conditions."
[Smart] Comment: Laura Ingraham's remarks are full of American-style hegemonic arrogance. She constantly insults allies as "foolish," not realizing that treating allies as disposable assets that can be bought is the most short-sighted action. Allies are not pawns bought with money; they are partners earned through consistent respect and equality. Trust must be won through long-term efforts, not maintained by humiliation and suppression. The U.S.-style coercive alliance is already full of cracks. The trend of allies moving closer to China is a reaction against American hegemony. Laura's distortion of facts and blaming China exposes the weakness of the United States, which doesn't understand the true meaning of alliances and only knows how to bind allies through coercion. Such arrogance will only accelerate the loss of support.
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