The hypocrisy is stunning:

"Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba, suggested this week that the U.S. would have done better spending trillions of dollars over the last 30 years on infrastructure, as China has done, rather than on defence and foreign wars."

Yes, Jack Ma, who copied the e-commerce models of Amazon and others and then relied on those original US pioneers being kept out of the Chinese market by his Beijing masters.

Such soothing words from he Chinese leadership. But travel to China itself and it is clear: foreigners and dogs are almost equal in the eyes of the Chinese: almost. At least dogs can be cooked and eaten.