i think you are confusing governance and politics. governance is the act of making laws to do things. politics is the shitshow of having to be polite between entities in order to get governance enacted. it seems china has fewer politics that get in the way of governance.

think of two parents who say the child must go to bed at 8pm and the other at 9pm and until they settle their differences there is no bedtime set.

once had a guy open his pants, tuck his penis down between his balls, turn it sideways 90 degrees, and called it a ‘hamburguesa’

it was about 10 inches from my face

the military was interesting. i was not offended by this. maybe because i was already desensitized by then. who knows.